Results 5,161-5,180 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount her Department spent on the State pension in 2013. [18764/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Application Numbers (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons or families currently on the social housing waiting lists in the four Dublin local authorities and the number among them that have been on those waiting lists for five years or more. [18768/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if in the case of a visa applicant with a physical disability, if their physical disability is a consideration when assessing if the applicant has sufficient finances or when assessing if granting a visa may result in a cost to public funds and-or public resources. [19226/14]
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is the policy - full cost recovery.
- Issue of Writ: Dublin West By-election (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: I support the moving of the writ for the Dublin West by-election and while regretting the unacceptable events that led to it, with a sense of humanity and compassion we should extend deep sympathy to the Nulty family who have suffered enormous loss due to the recent sudden and shocking death of Mr. Paddy Nulty. The people of Dublin West are in a position to deal a massive blow to the...
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: What the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, has just said demonstrates how utterly inadequate, to say the least, is the Government's approach to what is by any standards a crisis of unprecedented proportions as far as the number of individuals and families on the housing lists is concerned. The Minister of State should listen to and examine what he said. His first canard was the creation of...
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: These unfortunate people were shunted somewhere else. This is the Ireland of 2014 over which the Government presides but it does not get the scale of the suffering. Other Deputies have related many examples. It is important to ask what happened and find the root of the crisis. What happened between the 1970s and now was neoliberalism, the privatisation of the provision of homes, the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons this year to date who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to engage with labour activation schemes. [19740/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 74. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to engage with labour activation schemes in the first half of 2013; and the number in the second half of 2013. [19741/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended this year to date for refusing to take part in JobBridge under the youth guarantee. [19742/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to take part in the gateway scheme. [19743/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employers taking part in the JobBridge scheme that have been given a warning for giving participants in the scheme allowances for travel or food or any other expenses. [19744/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he met President Barroso in Davos and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7490/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he had while attending the World Economic Forum at Davos. [7491/14]
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach make time available next week - or certainly before 23 May - for a debate in order that we might clarify the Government's position in respect of water charges? I analysed the figures the Government released yesterday and discovered that the claim to the effect that the additional allowance of 38,000 litres per year in respect of each child under 18 years of age will mean...
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: That figure falls way below the normal amount of water used by those between 15 and 17 years of age.
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach's proposal is therefore based on a complete falsehood.
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Families and others must be made aware of that fact. When will clarification on this matter be forthcoming in order that we might tell people the truth about this issue?
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will be obliged to do so, because it is not possible-----
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: We cannot allow to stand a figure in respect of so-called free water for those under 18 which is utterly false. Families throughout the country have been given false information.