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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has made any board appointments recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9025/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: What informs the Taoiseach in terms of principles in any appointments he has to make or may make? Does he, for example, regard as a matter of principle that one advertises publicly before one chooses somebody? How does he explain the fact that since the Government came to power, according to an Irish Examiner study that of 1,067 appointments by the Government, only 191 people came through...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----stated that by submitting an expression of interest, the applicant accepts that the Minister is not obliged to consider the expressions of interest offered. One can apply but the Minister does not even have to look at the application. Is that any kind of a genuine democratic way to go? Is it not the reality that the political cronyism that dominated the appointments to boards in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: No. That is not the point. The Minister does not need to consider the expression of interest.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: He does not have to look at them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: It states that the Minister is not obliged to consider the expressions of interest offered, that he is not confined to make an appointment from among those who express an interest.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): State Visits (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had with Japanese Government officials during his recent visit to Japan. [53717/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): State Visits (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is not surprising that the Taoiseach would get on well with the Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, since both come from neoliberal and conservative political parties on the right wing of the political and economic spectrum. Apart from the business of adding a few ha'pennies of trade to the pence of trade while the Taoiseach was there, did he discuss with the Prime Minister the bigger picture and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the US Vice President; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53718/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (25 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: When will the Taoiseach next meet the Vice President and President of the United States? Will he outline his full schedule of public appearances on his visit to the United States during the St. Patrick's Day period? I gather from the Taoiseach's comments that the Government, in trying to secure a future for our undocumented friends and fellow citizens in the United States, believes that...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, is a script available?

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Could we have a copy of the Minister's speech?

Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach mentioned the debate on his plans essentially to hand the health service over to private insurance companies. He did not state exactly when that would begin. Also, he used that issue to deflect from the stark findings of a report showing that the number of patient deaths increases after surgery when nurse-patient ratios rise. Given the facts that four patients to one nurse is...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----by the Government's health and austerity policies? Perhaps he would address this matter under the health reform Bill, which is on the A list of Government legislation.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Since news of the suspected eavesdropping of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission emerged and events since developed to include serious allegations of Garda malpractice based on the complaints of Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe, the uniform response of the Government, that is, of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Justice and Equality, and the Fine Gael and Labour...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The point is the Minister alleged non-co-operation. Obviously Sergeant McCabe was not interviewed by Assistant Commissioner O'Mahony but does the Minister accept that Sergeant McCabe was never called on the telephone, texted, e-mailed, faxed or visited at his home by the Assistant Commissioner or anyone acting for him, to ask him to participate in the investigation?

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: What the Minister said now-----

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister is running down the clock. I want him to be very precise.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: I know all that. I want to ask a supplementary question.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: I have read all that. What the Minister has just said about a potential misunderstanding is a completely different situation to non-co-operation. If the Minister were in charge of a major investigation and he knew a particular witness had expert knowledge of the situation, would he be happy for a misunderstanding or anything else to stop him from contacting that person? Would he not contact...