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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 743: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of private, fee paying secondary schools which received funding on her Department's school building programme in the past five years. [22681/05]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 744: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of money which was spent by her Department on building projects for private, fee paying secondary schools in the past five years under her Department's school building programme. [22682/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 807: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will meet with the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment to discuss its concerns on the proposed building of a toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy, County Cork. [22539/05]

G8 Summit and Overseas Development Aid: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Government amendment to the Green Party motion is replete with hypocrisy. It acknowledges the need for international agreements to control the international trade in arms, to assist conflict resolution and to prevent the terrible cost to human lives and economically. The same Government has allowed our island to be a military aircraft carrier for the biggest imperialist superpower and...

G8 Summit and Overseas Development Aid: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: International capitalism is at the root of world poverty. Exploitation and poverty are inevitable tools of international capitalism and if that system is not changed, we will be here in 20 years' time with the same poverty and the same horror.

G8 Summit and Overseas Development Aid: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: I will be in Edinburgh to protest the policies of the G8, but unless we sweep away this rotten system where investment and production are simply to satisfy the greed of a tiny but wealthy and powerful corporate minority and replace it with a system where production investment is for the good of humanity, poverty will always be there.

Personal Statement by Member. (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: On 15 June I stated in the Dáil that the multinational corporation General Electric was involved in a legal manoeuvre to compel the Industrial Development Authority to pay millions of euro for land belonging properly to the Irish people, and that General Electric used these proceeds to finance pressurised redundancies at a company called Diamond Innovations. I am reliably informed that the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the jailing of five small landholders and residents in north Mayo at the behest of the Shell corporation; the fact that Shell is allowed to lay a pipeline for raw natural gas without the risk assessment report on the project being published and debated, in advance of the Minister for...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, you must change the formulation by which you dismiss all requests to move the adjournment stating that they are not in order under Standing Order 31. They are in order under Standing Order 31, but you decide to exercise your discretion not to allow a debate to happen. That should be reflected in the form of words used.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yes, but you will have to change the formulation you use because we are in order. It is your choice not to allow a debate.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Standing Order 31 is in place to allow matters of national importance to be debated.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The jailing of five decent people due to the actions of a multinational corporation is a matter of national importance.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: I hope most members of the Government are on the roof the next time a tornado hits it.

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question : To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the imprisonment of five Mayo residents at the behest of the Shell corporation.

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Will the Minister confirm that there is no barrier to him asking Shell to pull back from confrontation and lay off until the issues are fully discussed and resolved? Does he not find it extraordinary that the High Court is giving every benefit to a major corporation over the small people of Mayo? Is it not incredible that a full hearing of the issues of concern to the people of Mayo will be...

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should call in Shell and tell it to back off.

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Minister is a member of the Government.

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make representations to An Post to reinstate a post office service in Castleknock village, Dublin 15, in view of the hardship that the closure of the post office has caused pensioners. [23540/05]

Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)

Joe Higgins: It is a national outrage that five Rossport men have been in jail for 91 days. Does the Taoiseach feign innocence as if he were Prime Minister of the outer Hebrides, not the Republic of Ireland which happens to include County Mayo? It is true that it was Shell Oil that got the High Court to do its dirty work but the Taoiseach and his Government carry full responsibility. The Government gave...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)

Joe Higgins: The keys to the jail cells of the Rossport five are in the Taoiseach's hands. All he has to do is pick up the phone and make Shell lift the injunction, thus letting the five decent men home to their families. He should make Shell process the gas where it will not destroy the communities and the environment. While he is at it, the Taoiseach should tear up the contracts which have sold out this...