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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: This group of questions asks the Taoiseach to report on his discussions with his fellow leaders of the European Union member states. Has the Taoiseach or his fellow EU leaders any appreciation of the increasingly harsh reality of life for huge swathes of ordinary working people in Europe, unemployed people and poor people, as a result of the continuing crisis of European capitalism and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Austerity is killing the people.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: And 70,000 lost.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: They are in Australia, Canada and Britain.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Bled dry for bondholders.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Soup kitchens.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should write a novel.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: At the recent summit or in any of the Taoiseach's informal talks with his fellow EU leaders, did the plight of Edward Snowden feature? Was it discussed at the meetings or was there any discussion on offering him security and a safe haven within any country of the European Union? Does the Taoiseach accept that he struck a big blow for human rights by exposing the type of massive intrusion by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Will the EU offer him sanctuary?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the industrial action being taken by secondary school teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42510/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met, or is planning to meet, representatives of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland. [42511/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Licence Sale (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on allegations of tax avoidance by a company (details supplied) which has been awarded the joint operation of the national lottery as covered recently in the British Press. [50393/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will reconsider the requirements contained in the new form issued by her Department to allow those who are unemployed on certain days to claim jobseeker's benefit by indicating the days which they were not at work in view of the fact that it is causing difficulties for certain categories of workers (details supplied). [50395/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider signing into law regulations to be made under sections 16 and 17 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 allowing for tail docking and dew claw removal of dogs and that they may be performed by non-registered persons, namely, persons other than registered veterinary practitioners, using no anaesthesia or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 614. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 580 of 1 October 2013 the reason medical students on placement in the hospitals for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 were not paid; the reason this payment has still not been received, for example, by third level biomedical students in DIT; the action he or the Health Service Executive is taking to ensure that the...

Bond Repayments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is the mildest of motions. It merely asks the Government to talk to the European Central Bank, to negate the €28 billion debt with which that bank in connivance with two treacherous governments, this and the previous one, saddled the Irish people in order to bail out bankers and bondholders from the fruit of their greed-driven speculation in Irish property. Yet even this mild...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (4 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly appointed resource persons employed in Youthreach Centres of Education since 2005 to date by the City of Dublin ETB; the number of these newly appointed resource persons during this period started on point 1 of the resource persons incremental scale; the number of newly appointed resource persons during this period that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent meetings he has held with religious leaders. [40868/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach detail to the Dáil the discussions and contacts he, or people representing him, had with the Catholic Church, in particular, in the run-up to the passing of the Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Bill 2013? Was the strong opposition to that Bill the reason he couched it in the narrowest possible terms, really catering for a very exceptional situation where the life...