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- Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: They were not made redundant but the Government paid millions for it. How much?
- Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: They have tens of thousands from eastern Europe.
- Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Neither capitalism nor socialism but idiosyncrasy.
- Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: The Government should change the law.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make emergency funding available to address the â¬400,000 shortfall in funding facing the Rape Crisis Centre. [27588/05]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will increase funding to frontline services dealing with violence against women as their core operational funding remained fixed at the 2003 level of â¬12 million. [27589/05]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the briefing note on funding to voluntary dedicated frontline service responses to violence against women, in which frontline services described their current level of funding as severely inadequate to meet the current needs of women and their children, she will sanction a funding increase of at least â¬7...
- Written Answers — Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to develop and adopt a national strategy on violence against women that would provide a framework for monitoring and evaluating the progress of measures combating violence against women. [27532/05]
- Written Answers — Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will replace the national steering committee on violence against women with a statutory independent body with responsibility for monitoring and progressing the implementation of measures combating violence against women and for developing and monitoring national research and data collection, guidelines, policies,...
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 542: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will immediately implement a ban on the importation of oilseed rape seed (details supplied) under Directive 2001/18/EC and under the biosafety protocol to the convention on biodiversity to protect farming and biodiversity against live genetically modified organism seeds inevitably contaminating related...
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (11 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 543: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the importation of oilseed rape seed (details supplied) will make it difficult if not impossible to grow genetically modified free brassica crops including broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale kohlrabi, mustard, oilseed rape and...
- Constitutional Amendments. (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if his Government intends to propose any amendments to the Constitution during the current Dáil session. [25337/05]
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Can we return to the issue of Irish Ferries?
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Why did the Government do the same thing only six months ago?
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: The Government was going to facilitate Irish Ferries six months ago. The company got millions of euro.
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: The Government financed it six months ago.
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: There is no explanation.
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: I seek clarification, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am due to conclude the debate. Do we have the next half hour to speak?
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: We are concluding the debate. We can start now provided we have 30 minutes.
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: I commend strongly the Independent Deputies for making an important contribution to workers' rights in this country by tabling this motion. I find it reprehensible that, apart from The Irish Times, not a single other organ of the millionaire-owned press has covered the debate so far. The exposure of the criminal waste of taxpayers' funds in the health information technology services was...