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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the decision to permit the entry of the United States military to the State's airspace on 30 August 2014 for the purposes of an air display at a sporting event compromises the Government's position of military non-alignment. [34056/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken by his Department to provide assistance to a person (details supplied) an Irish citizen detained in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33050/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the latest position of a person (details supplied) who is detained in Egypt; and the efforts that his Department has made to seek their release. [33510/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position regarding prisoners' rights and freedom of expression and protest in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33051/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens that are registered in the citizens' registration system; the number in each country; and, if possible, to distinguish between those identified as being resident abroad and those on short-term trips. [33382/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports that were issued to citizens resident outside the State in the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and the states in which they were resident and in the figure for the United Kingdom to distinguish Northern Ireland from the overall UK figure. [33383/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the granting of extra free water usage allowance to those with inflammatory bowel disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33745/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed reduction by the trustees of the Irish aviation superannuation scheme of the defined benefit payments to pensioners beginning on 1 January 2015; his views that the employers should make a payment to IASS to ensure such a reduction in payments does not take place; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1759. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will be granting any hare coursing licences in the coming season. [33578/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Ombudsman (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the six-year time limit for complaints to the Financial Services Ombudsman about life insurance and life assurance policies, given the long terms of these products. [34880/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to prohibit life insurance and assurance providers dramatically raising premia when a customer is older as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34881/14]

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister might be the auld fellow in the ballroom of romance by the time this is all over.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown by sector of jobs created in the economy this year; and if he will provide figures for the average wage levels for these jobs by sector. [29935/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: Normally we do not get this opportunity on Taoiseach's questions. My question was to ask the Taoiseach and indeed the Government representatives for a breakdown by sector of jobs created in the economy this year and figures for the average wage levels for these jobs to see if we can get at the truth that the Government has grotesquely exaggerated the number of jobs created, many at very low...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister of State did not explain why at the beginning of this year every single day and every single week the Taoiseach and Ministers were out boasting about a job creation rate of 5,000 per month for 2013. What happened? The job creation rate in the first half of 2014 collapsed relative to that. What happened to the 5,000 a month the Government was boasting about? Is it not very...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----in Lucan at Kishoge Community College - a Department of Education and Skills scheme - because their employer forced them on pain of lock-out to change from being-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----employed workers to bogus subcontractors-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----for €5 an hour. Is that the type of economy over which the Government now is prepared to stand because that is the reality of the so-called recovery for many working-class people?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: Yes, but a Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: As the Ceann Comhairle is aware, the saying goes that there are lies, damned lies and statistics. This is why Members cannot confine a reply of the Government that is full of statistics just to that; they must interpret them.