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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 436. To ask the Minister for Health if the taget date for the opening of a new psychiatric unit in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, has been delayed. [43542/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The €2.5 billion in cuts and increases in tax announced in the budget yesterday must be seen as a further tier built on the platform of savage austerity put in place in this country in the past five years. Budget 2014 is, therefore, a further twist of the austerity knife which is already buried deep in the gut of the working class, low and middle-income workers, pensioners, the...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Working class people have to organise and fight back against the Government in order that the disastrous policies of austerity are changed. Tá éagóir nua á dhéanamh ar ghnáth-lucht oibre na tíre - go mórmhór daoine aosta agus daoine óga - i mbuiséad na bliana 2014. Tá ionsaithe nua fiachmhara i gceist sna polasaithe déine...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been an assessment of job displacement prior to the extension of JobBridge to 18 months and the introduction of the Gateway programme in local authorities. [44056/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that just 19.5% of interns found employment with their host organisation. It is not surprising that the bulk of the Minister's reply concerns measures to prevent abuse by employers of the internship scheme and interns. This is no coincidence because the scheme is abusive in itself, essentially providing free labour for employers. It is quite clear that the JobBridge and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is a pathetic bit of bluster. The reality is that young people are being driven out of this country at a rate of 50,000 or 60,000 a year by the Government's failure to bring in real measures and real investment, such as a wealth tax which would yield €1 billion or €2 billion to invest in real jobs, as opposed to the Mickey Mouse stuff the Government is doing as it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should be burning with shame today as a result of her attacks on the elderly, young pregnant women and young people. It is all the more shameful that she does it on the 100th anniversary of the fight by working class men and women against the abuse of workers young and old. The Government has lined up with the very type of speculator responsible for this tragedy and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: -----instead of real measures. I ask the Minister to call off her assault on young people and replace it with real investment for real jobs and real hope, and not to patronise people, as she and the Taoiseach have been doing, to cover up a vicious assault on a group of young people who are desperately looking for employment although the jobs are not there. Does the Minister agree that 32...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Absolute nonsense.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should read history.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Who is disparaging the young people?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister is the one disparaging the young people. She has no future for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister offers up young people for slavery and free labour. That is the reality.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Free and slave labour.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister has not been too happy herself for the past couple of weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homeless Persons Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the increase in the number of homeless families following the reduction in rent allowance earlier this year. [43835/13]

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Do not start that again-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: IBEC. The Taoiseach should go out and drive himself for a week-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that the level of Government spin on so-called economic recovery and jobs over the past two months has reached a scale that is truly Orwellian and bears no relation to the reality of people's lives in this State or outside it who have been driven out by economic crisis. Will the Taoiseach accept that the figure of 400,000 people on the live register who are unemployed or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: We want more of them.