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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Deputy should throw his telephone in a lake. It has been going off all day.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: Is it not clear that this year's sectarian tensions point to significant sections of Protestant and Catholic working-class populations, especially the young members of those populations, being seriously alienated? Is it not clear that the Good Friday Agreement has not delivered for them by bringing an end to unemployment, poverty, the housing crisis and other problems? How it could be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Regime Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount IFSC-registered companies paid in corporation tax in 2012. [39309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Investment Funds Assets (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of financial assets administered here. [39310/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide information on the creditors of Ireland's national debt. [39311/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount it would cost to remove all fees, including registration fees, for third level education. [39314/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of abolishing fees including registration fees for all third level students normally resident here or here on student exchange programmes such as Erasmus. [39346/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who have recently lost their jobs that have opted to take a redundancy payment and the number that have opted to join the panel established by his Department. [39721/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what capital works the Office of Public Works has planned for St. Enda's Park in Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 for the coming years; and if there a plan to re-instate the erosion protection along the river and dredge the pond. [39720/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yearly cost of JobBridge. [39312/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (24 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: 307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the anticipated cost of the JobsPlus scheme in a full year. [39313/13]

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is a pity the Taoiseach would not be as tough on the bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: It was based on intimidation and coercion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: With regard to the Anglo Irish Bank tapes, Professor Honohan was quoted in a German newspaper a few months ago as saying that it seemed that the Anglo bankers were deliberately misrepresenting the position of the bank, with a view to accessing financial support. Was it after that the professor went and looked to see in detail what these characters said in subsequent meetings with the Central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: So is it that it was macho, juvenile bluffing by these guys talking among themselves?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: It does not seem credible. These guys, in what they thought were private conversations, were hatching plots to be underwritten for the speculation they had carried out, by the taxpayer eventually, yet the Central Bank says it could find nothing. Did it look very deeply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: Professor Honohan said there are three modes by which the crisis mortgages can be resolved, the third of which is eviction. All of these modes are to the advantage of the banks. The Central Bank contemplates no general write-down for ordinary homeowners in serious negative equity, whether or not they are in arrears. Many people who are not in arrears are in deep hardship trying to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: They come in here and resolutely say there will not be debt forgiveness, as they call it. I do not call it that. The Governor, Professor Honohan, was prepared to underwrite a policy where the billionaire bondholders were bailed out on the backs of the Irish working class people, but he will not contemplate such relief for those who were their victims. The national debt is about 120% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: May I pose a final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: If the Governor does not have to hand the relevant figures, he might forward them in writing to the joint committee. Does he have an estimate of the quantum of negative equity in the case of owner-occupier mortgages for the four main banks? Second, does he have an estimate of the Exchequer payments this year in interest on the national debt? How much of that is accounted for by funds...