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

Joe Higgins: Why not the others?

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

Joe Higgins: Why will the Government not legislate for fatal foetal abnormalities?

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

Joe Higgins: I would prefer to ask further supplementary questions.

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

Joe Higgins: Would the Taoiseach accept that when he and his Ministers as an institution meet the Church as an institution, it is like a meeting of two relics of an evolutionary process which halted at a certain stage, while the evolutionary process in ideas and outlook continued with the people that the Taoiseach is supposed to represent, which leaves him and the Church, in matters that they discuss,...

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

Joe Higgins: Why not?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 488. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be given access to a neural psychologist, behavioural therapist and occupational therapist in the public health system and receive necessary treatment [52684/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent Amnesty International report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza that outlines the impact of the Israeli blockade on the health, sanitation and power supply of the people of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53269/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations that he has made to the Israeli authorities regarding the blockade on Gaza. [53270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations that he has made to the Egyptian authorities regarding the closing of crossings from Egypt to Gaza. [53271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the Israeli blockade of Gaza amounts to collective punishment. [53272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 131. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of tenants of local authorities currently residing in one room bedsits which have been in violation of the Housing Regulations of 2008 since 1 February 2013; and the amount of funds being allocated to the renovation of these properties. [53400/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 132. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of enforcement orders intended to achieve compliance with the building regulations fire safety issued by fire safety authorities against non-compliant builders and developers since he became Minister. [53419/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 133. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he proposes to adopt to recover the €10,000,000 allocated in the capital budget for remedial works to houses suffering major damage caused by pyrite from the quarry and construction industry and the HomeBond organisation. [53420/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm if the HomeBond technical staff that inspected homes in the Dublin West constituency (details supplied) and incorrectly found that structural damage was not due to pyrite will not be involved in auditing building condition assessments under IS398-1. [53421/13]

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government did not put in enough investment. It is very simple.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government is taking the lead from the troika the very same weekend it contends we are free of the troika.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met any of the social partners since the July recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40869/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said the Government does not intend to go back to the previous model of social partnership. Social partnership was never more than a fraudulent concept by which big business and financiers were allowed rip-roaring profits - the fruits of speculation. It allowed for the gouging of young people on the property market but held wages to restrained limits. It was not a partnership...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: I will just wait until the Taoiseach finishes his consultation with Deputy Bannon.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Milne Foods provides essential supplies such as vegetables, potatoes and salads to HSE facilities such as Tullamore Hospital, which represents a big contract for the company. Does the Taoiseach find it acceptable that this company can then refuse to go to the Labour Court when requested to do so and when the workers and SIPTU, which represents them, want the company to do so? The HSE has...