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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he had with European Council leaders in December. [7493/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the issue of the exit of the State from the troika with European Council leaders in the European Council meeting on 19 and 20 December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7494/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: Tens of thousands of mainly working-class youths on this island were slaughtered in Europe as a result of the rivalry between major imperial powers jockeying for influence, territory and markets when that rivalry exploded into the First World War. Has the Taoiseach learned nothing from the history of our own people and of small nations in Europe? The Taoiseach fully supports the policy of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: I have a brief supplementary question.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: I want to ask a question about legislation. However, the Taoiseach should stop digging.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: He must be the only person in the country who has the neck to say the Garda Commissioner retired as opposed to resigning, as if the events of the last three or six months never happened.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should stop digging; he is still in denial.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: Can I ask about legislation?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: When will the Taoiseach bring forward the workplace relations Bill and the industrial relations (No. 2) Bill? Is it Government policy to use the courts to break the democratic right of workers to engage in industrial action, as Aer Lingus, in which the Government has a major shareholding, is doing? That company is pursuing an individual representative in order to bankrupt him. Is that...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: White Paper on Defence (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 828. To ask the Minister for Defence the date on which the White Paper on Defence will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13482/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 483. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the cut that sees the loss of a community employment supervisor in the Community LYNKS drugs project, Inchicore, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12925/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas Designation (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 580. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the potential impact on the European designated special protection area following the sale of five acres on the Merrion Road beside the Booterstown Nature Reserve in Dublin, known as the Ashe Castle site previously owned by the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14124/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (25 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1135. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Fampyra for multiple sclerosis will be available for patients through the public health service at no cost at the point of use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13764/14]

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: We are being treated to an incredible Government charade this morning. The captain of L.E. Justice paraded into the House to pretend there is no problem and that the ship is sailing smoothly in the calmest of waters. Everyone else sees that his ship is holed above the waterline, the rudder is smashed and smoke is pouring from the engine. Meanwhile, a huge storm is raging, but he has...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: Did the Leas-Ceann Comhairle say "to resign" or "to reply"?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach in a Garda station at the time?

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, has finally apologised to the two Garda whistleblowers. To do so, apparently, it was necessary for him to be flanked by a praetorian guard of political heavyweights, with the Taoiseach on one side and the Minister for Finance on the other. They must have feared that, even as his very head depended on the apology, the Minister would...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: The former Garda Commissioner sent a letter to the Minister regarding the taping of conversations in Garda stations on March 10. Did the Minister have any conversation or contact with the Garda Commissioner on that or any other issue between that date and the date of his resignation? What does the Minister know of the Garda Commissioner's decision to resign? Did the Minister know that the...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: Did the Minister have any conversation with the Garda Commissioner between 10 March, when the letter was sent, and the date of the Commissioner's resignation?

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: In the letter that the Garda Commissioner sent to the Minister he referred to himself as being the "data controller" vis-à-vis the recordings. However, a massive report from the Data Protection Commission states that representatives of that office went to Garda Headquarters in 2011 and that they had elaborate discussions on all data-related issues but not once was the issue of...