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Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the negotiations between the Labour Relations Commission and the public service unions that have taken place since the rejection of the Croke Park II proposals. [24670/13]

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The financial emergency measures in the public interest will enshrine these pay cut proposals from the Government. Can I put it to the Minister that it is misnamed legislation? The public interest suggests the majority interest of ordinary people but this is in the interest of continuing the bailout of bankers and bondholders at the expense of public sector workers and continuing the flow...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the next EU Council meeting is taking place; and if he will outline the key issues likely to be taken. [23970/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach in any way uneasy, to say the least, when the European Council meeting moved on to a discussion on taxation? I note from the communiqué issued after the summit that measures to fight tax evasion, fraud, etc., were discussed "in order to protect revenues and ensure public confidence in the fairness and effectiveness of tax systems." Leaving aside the issue of fraud for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: It facilitates tax evasion by them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The substance is true.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes. I wish to share time with Deputies Finian McGrath, Richard Boyd Barrett, Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Seamus Healy and Shane Ross.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013 is a falsely named piece of legislation through and through. The public interest suggests the well-being of a majority in society and society in general. A regime of cuts to the income of low and middle-income workers and a worsening of their conditions is not in the public interest or in the interest of society. It damages...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will immediately be made available for the refurbishment, redevelopment and extension of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [25463/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is at tender stage in time to qualify for the stimulus package as announced in 2012. [25462/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse his decision to allocate resource hours under the July Provision to siblings based on the school grouping principle rather than to each child in their own right; if he will outline the assistance he will give to parents unable to find tutors that will work alone with a number of children with a severe or profound learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make changes to circular 02/05 to add Down syndrome to the list of complex low incidence disorders to enable adequate resource hours to children. [25125/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the varying levels of fees being charged by different creches to parents with children in the community childcare subvention programme; the steps she will take to ensure that charges are not a barrier to parents with low incomes availing of childcare under this programme; and if she will make a...

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes, it is.

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The summit of European Union leaders of 22 May 2013 did absolutely nothing of substance to address the really serious economic crisis in many countries within the European Union. Against a background of 26 million people unemployed, nothing short of emergency measures is called for. Such measures, were they to be effective, would be obliged to take into account that capitalism, as an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the Indecon report into the JobBridge Scheme which revealed that an estimated 240 of the 7,300 companies surveyed are availing of the scheme to displace paid jobs and only 15 companies have since been banned from participating in the scheme; the measures she is putting in place to identify and exclude other companies engaged in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: To provide an accurate assessment, one would be obliged to state that many of the 61% who secured employment were in jobs which had nothing to do with their internships. Only one in five secured employment with the companies with which they did their internships. Of course, a large number of people did not complete their internships in the first instance. Indecon's survey reveals that 3%...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: There is widespread anecdotal evidence - from people who participated on this scheme and those who have examined some of the so-called internships on offer - that JobBridge is being highly abused as a means of procuring cheap labour. Furthermore, 29% of the employers surveyed said that, even if they had not taken on interns, it was highly or fairly likely that they would have taken on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: I do not know whether Ms Feehily will consider this interaction as me being an engager.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: We know Revenue does not comment on individual cases. This is the first time I have heard an authoritative person from Revenue agree the census figure of 1.99 million homes should have been the base line from the beginning. Revenue insisted the total number of homes was 1.66 million. Was this for propaganda purposes? As Ms Feehily is aware, there is a great deal of anger and resentment...