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- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 84. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons working in Departments and agencies under the JobBridge scheme and other such labour activation measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38304/14]
- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Did the Minister of State say there have been 330 interns in the public sector in total since the scheme's inception?
- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: I have stated on many occasions that the internship schemes are simply for the purpose of cynically manipulating the unemployment figures to the benefit of the Government and to provide cheap labour for employers, and I want to ask the Minister of State a number of specific questions. Has the moratorium on public sector employment meant that no jobs could be offered to interns? If so, was...
- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Nobody believes that the 3,000 Gateway positions with local authorities are for any other purpose than to fill the gaps left in local authority services by the consistent underfunding of local authority services. It is cheap, yellow pack labour. Will the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, please answer the questions? How many public sector interns got jobs within the public sector...
- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: I did not get an answer.
- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: I did not get an answer.
- Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Places (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: You have a role, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, under the new Standing Orders to require a Minister to answer the question. Was any Department barred? Perhaps no Department has been, but the Minister of State should tell us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with the Governor of California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30900/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he had with other UN leaders during his stay in New York in September 2014. [36527/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: When the Taoiseach met Governor Brown of California in June, the Governor felt at liberty to indulge in a bit of knockabout comedy at his expense and at the expense of the corporation tax policies of the Irish Government. He said that if California could have Ireland's corporation tax rate, it would become an independent country. He said he used to think the Apple corporation was a...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: No, it is not agreed. This is the second or third occasion recently on which time has been extended in the Dáil to debate issues. I have no problem with that but, although I have asked the Taoiseach and Ministers on those occasions when time would be made available for an emergency debate on the debacle that is Irish Water and all to do with it, especially the attempt to austerity-tax...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----because it is setting about gouging the people by putting in place structures to levy this new tax.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: What I am talking about is-----
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will not get into the substantive issue, obviously, but it is clear that with revolt spreading from one corner of the country to the other-----
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----the people's Parliament should discuss it. When will we have time made available? Can the Taoiseach tell us that-----
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----before we agree to today's extra time?
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Smart-alecry will not save the Taoiseach from the wrath of the people.
- Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is very respectful-----
- Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----to bring the concerns of 1 million householders in here.
- Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes. It is very respectful to bring the concerns of 1 million householders in here.