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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (14 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of temporary contracts in place for the public sector as a whole, including State agencies and other bodies under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38952/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on discussions he and his officials have had with senior executives of Allied Irish Banks regarding the outsourcing of security, cleaning, buildings and other services and customer and staff support official roles to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38942/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on discussions he and his officials have had with senior executives of Allied Irish Banks regarding talks with SIPTU on the outsourcing of work to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38943/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the terms and conditions of employment and pensions continuing without detriment for staff transferred from Allied Irish Banks to a company (details supplied). [38944/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the possible increased security risks associated with outsourcing security services from direct employment by banks to indirectly employed staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38945/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: This morning the Tánaiste and Minister for Social protection, leader of the Labour Party, had the audacity to suggest the €5 a month increase in child benefit is in recognition of the sacrifices made by families over the past six years. She insults the women and children of this country by putting a value of a paltry €5 per month per child on the six years of savage...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, will disappear. He should listen to what I am saying.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: Moving along quickly, some 10,000 houses will be built in four years as against 90,000 on the housing waiting list. The figures from the 1970s should put the Labour Party, especially, to shame. In 1971, 4,789 homes could be built. That increased to 6,000 in 1973 and 8,794 in 1975. At the time of less wealth in Irish society, the Government could build as many houses as the current...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if GMC Sierra or Uisce Éireann are contributing financially towards the cost of the Garda mobilisation into the north east of the city of Dublin to enforce the installation of water meters in the face of organised protests in those communities. [39454/14]

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: It would not buy a pack of nappies.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: No. The proposal is that after Private Members’ Business the order shall resume. I oppose this and propose instead that we have a debate today on the disaster that is the Government’s water charges policy. We need to have that debate because 100,000 people flooded on to the streets of Dublin last Saturday to demand, in no certain terms, that the Government abolish the water...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: If the Tánaiste does not listen to the people exercising their power on the streets, perhaps she might listen to them at the ballot box. The Government, particularly the Labour Party, was eviscerated in the recent by-elections over water charges and other issues.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: Under Standing Orders, I am allowed to make a short statement in opposition to the Order of Business. I am concluding.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste can lacerate Fianna Fáil all she wants for lack of investment in water services. However, 20 years ago when she was in government, she could have put €1 billion or €2 billion into water infrastructure. Instead, she gave a massive tax amnesty to criminal tax cheats with their offshore accounts.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Fianna Fáil leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, said something important today.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: He said up to €175 million might constitute the net income next year from water charges if there were 100% compliance. The Government should forget it. It will face a mass national non-payment campaign that will put Captain Boycott in the shade. The Tánaiste had better get wise to the anger being expressed. It will not be reconciled by the Government’s paltry...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: I want the debate to take place today or the Government to set aside time tomorrow. This issue must be dealt with and dealt with now.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: Bertie Ahern could not do better.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste, in particular, should know about the poll tax.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the downward pressure on wages and working conditions at Greyhound Recycling and other private waste collection operators. [34328/14]