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

Joe Higgins: I was speaking about scambridge.

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

Joe Higgins: I recognise that Kerry's football clubs are decimated by emigration.

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

Joe Higgins: No, I did not give that impression.

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

Joe Higgins: Do not be ridiculous.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (23 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific fire safety building regulations which were not complied with in the case of Priory Hall; if he will confirm that such breaches of fire safety building regulations do not exist in other housing estates constructed during the building boom in particular in the nearby Belmayne Estate. [44771/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (23 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the timeframe for the proposed referendum to reduce the voting age to 16. [35073/13]

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: A bigoted busybody on Facebook.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Can we not pose questions to the Minister now?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: This has been a terrible week for social protection in Ireland. This Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, like the budget, makes swingeing economic attacks on the elderly with its callous snatch back of tens of thousands of medical cards, on the young with the savage cuts to their jobseekers' allowances and on pregnant women with the callous cut to maternity benefits, among many other attacks....

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is a mandate for injustice against social minorities. The scandal of the Roma children removed from their homes occurred because of the stereotyping that is done by the establishment in this society. This Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition, and the Minister, Deputy Burton, have consistently reinforced another bigoted, ignorant and cynical stereotype in regard to social welfare recipients,...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Baroness Burton's prescription for the young unemployed in Ireland who are denied a job in the scorched earth of the austerity ridden economy -----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: ----- is to work for €50 per week for employers who are looking for free labour at the taxpayer's expense.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The other alternative is that the young in their tens of thousands should spread their wings on every tide to far flung places across the earth. It is not so much a case of exporting them like cattle, as de Valera said - which was due to his own obscurantist economic policies - as of exporting our youth by the plane load like sophisticated human computer chips carrying with them huge...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government is taking it out of people's wages.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: People are not thanking the Government. It is a banker's tax and should be abolished.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees that have met since the adjournment of Dáil Éireann in July; and the number of times each has met. [39141/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Which committee met 11 times?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: What was the last committee to which the Taoiseach referred met 11 times?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: The final sentence in the reply speaks volumes. The Economic Management Council, which is composed of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform met 11 times, which is a multiple of many of the other committees. Is it the case that in this Government, Cabinet committees are surplus to requirement because the EMC has assumed...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy has met since the summer recess. [45919/13]