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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (26 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way the community Garda service for the Hartstown, Huntstown, Blakestown and Mountview area of Dublin 15 will continue following recent redeployments of resources; and his views on the community Garda service for wider west Dublin area. [14412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (27 Mar 2014)

Joe Higgins: 223. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Neurological Alliance of Ireland's recently published nationwide survey "Living with a Neurological Condition in Ireland" which shows the difficulties persons with neurological conditions have in accessing services and the difficulties faced following changes to benefits and entitlements. [14614/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and the meetings he had with Government officials there, including the Deputy Prime Minister, Crown Prince Salman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2212/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Qatar and the meetings he had with Government officials there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2213/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates and his meetings with Government officials there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2214/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach disgraced himself and betrayed the best instincts of fair mindedness in the Irish people when he visited the Gulf states in January and when he deliberately averted his gaze from the shocking crushing of workers' rights, human rights and women's rights. The Irish Daily Mirror is not a revolutionary newspaper and certainly would not have anything in common with the Socialist...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: The newspaper outlined how in Qatar, 1,200 workers have been killed so far in the past two years in the death trap construction projects in preparation for the 2022 football World Cup. Amnesty International has reported a scandalous regime of the most grotesque abuse of migrant workers. The journalist who wrote yesterday's piece in the Irish Daily Mirror, Kevin Maguire, visited Qatar, like...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: In defending himself on this, the Taoiseach told The Irish Times that he wanted to focus on endorsing the credibility and integrity of Irish companies doing business. Is it not the case that he was concentrating exclusively on private profits of corporations rather than human rights? When my Socialist Party colleague, Paul Murphy MEP, wrote to the Taoiseach to complain about this, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach could call on FIFA to give the Qatari authorities an ultimatum.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: We know what is going on.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: We know.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: We know about the horror that is going on.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: The point is that we need to change it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: How can the Taoiseach sit down with these regimes?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: They should make his skin crawl.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I again invite the Taoiseach to call on FIFA to issue an ultimatum to the Qatari regime and authorities that if there is not an immediate verifiable transformation in the grotesque exploitative conditions of workers, particularly those of migrant workers, it will withdraw the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar. Does he agree this would be a powerful pressure point on this regime that could...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: A motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, is warranted by any one of several stances taken by the Minister which were all designed to protect the most senior echelons of the Garda Síochána when issues surfaced that brought their role into serious question. The penalty points controversy and the blackguarding of the two gardaí who...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: Of course it is inappropriate. Do not be a fool.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I have a question for all six organisations. What is their arrangement with the banks in terms of trying to survive financially? Do these organisations get paid fees or retainers or anything else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: As an organisation that has loudly and correctly criticised the banks for their callousness and cruelty, is there a danger that AIB is attempting to get an organisation like the IMHO embedded to try to take the sting out of public criticism as to the callous way it and the other banks have been acting?