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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Is the figure in the Revised Estimate for the total costs of the Moriarty tribunal?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: What is the likely magnitude of the additional costs?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: On what basis was the figure of €1.4 million included?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will they amount to €1 million or €2 million?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is not a satisfactory position.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government. [45915/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is three years in office and if the Government survives a five-year term, then we are 60% of the way now. Therefore, the shape of what the Government promised three years ago should be evident to our people by now. One of the promises made was that this Government would be entirely different to the regime that preceded it in the matter of how public affairs were conducted,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The property tax will take it all back.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Of course the scandalous abuse of charities should be outed, but it should not hide the scandal whereby people with disabilities and vulnerable people should not have to depend on the charity of whoever happens to be able to throw some money in a bucket. I note that the Taoiseach did not comment on the return – it never really went away – of crony capitalism, with companies...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: One should not be obliged to wait that long.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: One hundred thousand families need housing.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: What about the bondholders and European financiers?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he has recently met representatives of the Northern Ireland Executive. [45916/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent North-South meeting in Armagh. [53719/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the Messines and the Menin Gate in December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53721/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The First World War was a crime of appalling proportions which inflicted hell on earth by the ruling classes of both Germany and Britain in pursuit of greater access to markets and greed for each other's colonies. Millions of victims were working class youth in uniform and others. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is not appropriate that he should participate uncritically with modern day...

European Council: Statements (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Any reading of the communiqué that followed the meeting of the Prime Ministers of the European Council and other Heads of State on 19 and 20 December 2013 indicates that it resembled in large part a meeting of militarists and armament industry executives. It is quite extraordinary that half of the communiqué is about the intensification of militarisation in the European Union and...

European Council: Statements (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: How does the Minister of State reconcile what we have outlined? There is huge investment in armaments, weapons of mass destruction and the intensification of militarisation. The Taoiseach attended and participated in such meetings while, supposedly, proclaiming this to be a neutral state. What is meant by increased synergies between the Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has estimated the potential drop out rate by apprentices from courses they have undertaken with FÁS/SOLAS arising from the introduction of fees for those courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2333/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have taken part in the JobBridge scheme in Fingal, South Dublin, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and Dublin City Council areas. [2766/14]