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Written Answers — Statutory Redundancy: Statutory Redundancy (26 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid to Irish Ferries in redundancy grants with respect to workers on the [i]MV Normandy [/i]passenger ferry. [30788/05]

Written Answers — Statutory Redundancy: Statutory Redundancy (26 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which Irish Ferries qualifies for redundancy grants with respect to workers on the [i]MV Normandy[/i] passenger ferry. [30789/05]

Written Answers — Inquiry into Child Abuse: Inquiry into Child Abuse (27 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 289: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if legislation will be brought forward to establish a redress board in respect of compensation for victims of non-residential institutions, that is, day school pupils. [31197/05]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the costs to his Department during 2005 in relation to the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25358/05]

Irish Unification: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Both the Sinn Féin motion and the Government amendment are predicated on the belief that the Good Friday Agreement is a template for a resolution to the political crisis in Northern Ireland. That is a fundamental fallacy. The Good Friday Agreement has provided for the institutionalisation of sectarian division, not for its overcoming. Since the IRA ceasefire halted its disastrous...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Beaumont Hospital has discontinued enhanced external counter pulsation treatment. [31479/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason enhanced external counter pulsation treatment has been discontinued at Beaumont Hospital. [31480/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the location at which angina sufferers can avail of enhanced external counter pulsation treatment due to the fact that this service has been discontinued at Beaumont Hospital. [31481/05]

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: I would say the corncrake rather than the brent goose. The difference is we would like to hear more from the corncrake.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yes. It is clear from what the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government stated yesterday in respect of the issue that Deputy Murphy and I have been raising here, that legislation is needed to void estate management company contracts whereby young homeowners are forced into paying for services which local authorities supply in most other estates. Can I ask the Minister for...

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: How will this mess be resolved?

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: We have been raising it.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: They should not play games with this. People are in court next week over this, for services that the local authority should provide.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Excuse me, it is us who are being provoked, not them.

Programmes for Government. (8 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [25344/05]

Programmes for Government. (8 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: We noticed the Taoiseach came from Finglas to Blanchardstown yesterday for a number of official openings. Did he have the pleasure of spending a long time in the biggest car park in the country, the M50? He did not do any official opening of that.

Programmes for Government. (8 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Of course, ten minutes on the inside lane in his public service vehicle. The Taoiseach should have gone out to see the M50 car park this morning.

Programmes for Government. (8 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: They are stuck out in that car park from 6.30 a.m.

Programmes for Government. (8 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yes. Does the Taoiseach see that a conflict has arisen in a number of areas between his programme for Government and the regulators and quangos his Government has tended to set up to avoid direct responsibility? They are at a remove from Cabinet Ministers and the Government. I will make a brief reference to what I mean to illustrate this. The programme for Government promised 3,000 extra beds...

Programmes for Government. (8 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: There is a fundamental issue of democracy involved which I want the Taoiseach to tease out for us. When there is such a conflict, who prevails — the quango or the programme for Government?