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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: There is one minute and fifty seconds remaining.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: To be honest, the next question on infrastructure is very important and should remain on the agenda until the next day. May I ask a supplementary question on social policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has gone on at length decrying the homelessness situation in Dublin and the State. I wondered to myself, "Has this man been in power for the past three years?".

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach shows tendencies similar to one of his predecessors, the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. I often argued with him across the floor and he suffered regular bouts of amnesia as he described the terrible problems in society to the House. He made no connection between these problems and the fact that he had been in charge for years. Will the Taoiseach please remind himself of his...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 75. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a Garda investigation has been launched into the treatment, death and burial of children at the Bon Secours mother and baby home, Tuam, County Galway, between 1925 and 1961. [26755/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish a public inquiry into the policing of protests related to the Shell/Corrib gas project at Rossport, County Mayo. [26754/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine the process for the issuing of deportation orders in the case of persons who have abided by their visa conditions and left the State having deportation orders issued against them and thereby causing difficulty when wishing to re-enter the State. [26758/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform family law prior to any future referendum on marriage equality to give same-sex civil partners the same legal entitlements and rights as married couples. [26756/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there has been a discontinuation of the supply of free EU intervention surplus cheese; and the alternative means by which the families who previously benefited from this scheme via community based organisations who disbursed it on behalf of his Department can continue to avail of same. [27201/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure has met since the winter recess. [14916/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am sure the interjection by the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, is meant to be helpful but unfortunately it is more difficult than that. We are not allowed to frame a question asking what was discussed at the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is the problem. The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, would have to deal with constitutional change before we could ask a question along the lines he suggests. That leaves us with a problem. In fairness to the Ceann Comhairle, until now he has seen how limited that formula is and he has allowed latitude to discuss issues arising from the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure, for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: What role does the Cabinet committee have in that regard and have there been urgent meetings to deal with the issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had with church leaders. [14917/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is impossible to understand the horrors that took place in the Irish Free State and the Irish Republic, such as those which have only recently come to light with the mother and baby home scandals, without understanding the unique relationship that developed between the Irish State and the Catholic Church. In essence, a very weak capitalist State dominated by gombeens, small business...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Irish and the Gaeltacht last met; and the date on which the next meeting is scheduled. [14918/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Sea, cinnte.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Teastaíonn uaim é seo a rá. We have two languages in this country, English and Irish. Both are our languages, languages of the Irish people. A majority speaks English and a minority speaks and understands English and Irish. This is replicated in Dáil Éireann. It is not acceptable that there are just about half a dozen headphones in the Dáil at the moment...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will guarantee that a child care service (details supplied) in Dublin will remain open and fully funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27989/14]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Is there an informal pairing?