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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a case of abduction of a child (details supplied); if he considers that the State has a responsibility to ensure that the mother's right to primary care of her child is upheld in view of the fact that the flight risk was communicated to the social worker in advance of the abduction; and the actions he or...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (12 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure the continued funding of Rape Crisis Network Ireland as scheduled for the end of March, in view of the essential specialist research and support it provides for rape crisis centres. [5327/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (12 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that funding will be made available for Rape Crisis Network Ireland, which provides rape crisis centres with vital specialist research and support and whose closure is imminent due to the fact that its current funding is scheduled to be terminated on 31 March 2014. [5328/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the long delays in assessment and access in respect of speech and language therapy in Dublin 15; the measures he will take to resolve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6797/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 52. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to ensure that a child (details supplied below) in Dublin 15 will receive immediate access to speech and language therapy in view of the fact that the application was first made in 2011. [6798/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: In practice, what does the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of a single resolution mechanism, a single bank resolution fund, etc., mean for the ordinary citizen of the EU and the affairs of financial institutions that become bankrupt or broken? How would this process make a difference for the 13,000 mortgage holders whom the Minister and IBRC's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: That the taxpayer should not be saddled with the speculative gambling debts of private institutions goes without saying. How will this impact mortgage holders whose only crime was to borrow money to put a roof over their heads etc, in particular the 13,000 mortgage holders of the former Irish Nationwide?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: There is no point in hoping for the good will of vulture capitalists who roam the world picking up what they can. They will not hesitate to squeeze decent people by way of interest rate increases or, in the case of people in trouble, repossession, if it suits them. However, I will follow up this matter further next week with the Minister during Question Time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: How will Ireland be represented at the G20 this year? I presume it will be represented through the European Union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will taxation issues be a feature of the G20 discussions this time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The most recent controversy about Irish taxation of multinationals and the figures produced by Professor Stewart of TCD of an effective rate of 2.2% gives added urgency to the situation. Even if the Minister does not accept that or Mr. Coffey's estimate of 8%, there are serious anomalies and problems in this regard. In 2013, Apple had savings of €146 billion, Microsoft, €80...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when was the last time the Cabinet Committee on Mortgage Arrears and Credit Availability met; and when it is scheduled to reconvene. [7497/14]

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The inescapable reality is that the Taoiseach has no real appreciation of the huge crisis and distress in the lives of so many of our people as a result of unsustainable mortgages. Over the ten-year criminal property bubble, a generation of young people were blackmailed into paying prices for the simple human right of a roof over their heads, the level of which has now imprisoned them. With...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: They crashed the economy as a result but the Government is now handing over the victims of the crash for further torture to the very people who caused it. Does the Taoiseach not see a massive irony, to say the least, in that? Some of the outlined solutions, such as split mortgages, are simply a matter of maintaining in bondage home owners into old age and even passing on the debts to their...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the last time the Cabinet committee on health met; and when it is scheduled to reconvene. [7496/14]

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach's so-called fair care system and universal health insurance involves handing over inordinate power to private health insurers in our health service. When the Taoiseach produces his legislative proposals they will be hugely opposed by a substantial cohort of people in this country. I have a short question. When the Cabinet sub-committee on health meets, does it meet on...

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Mr. Bill Clinton; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7495/14]

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: What is it about Presidents and ex-Presidents of the United States that so mesmerises establishment politicians in Ireland? Are they drawn to the aura of power or former power, the fact that the people concerned were and the incumbents are in charge of the biggest imperial power on earth? It is something about which I always wonder. When the Taoiseach takes advice from President Clinton, I...

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Massive profits.

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach cannot wash his hands.