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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 771: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction funding to enable ACORN applied behavioural analysis school for autistic children to set up a unit on Dublin's north side for 12 autistic children, in view of the long waiting lists for existing schools providing this type of education for autistic children and the great benefit of early intervention and...

Written Answers — Departmental Documents: Departmental Documents (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 832: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in view of his reply to Question No. 570 of 7 March 2006, he will undertake to update his Department's website concerning the case of a person (details supplied) to the effect that the report of the Judge Advocate General publicised on the website was subsequently quashed by the High Court in July 2005. [10442/06]

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 871: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which he intends to strengthen the ability of the Private Residential Tenancies Board to effectively enforce registration of private properties, in view of the fact that most of the enforcement notices sent by the Private Residential Tenancies Board to over 250 houses in Tallaght have effectively...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is all to do with big business.

Northern Ireland Issues. (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to discuss with the US President Mr. George W. Bush during his visit to the White House on St. Patrick's weekend 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9373/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [9375/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the British Prime Minister Mr. Tony Blair. [9376/06]

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: I thank Deputy Murphy for sharing her time. I agree with the principle of a national sports campus. However, I seek many assurances on how it will be developed, run and managed, exactly to whom it will be available and on what basis. Any national sports campus must be open on an equal basis to all citizens with regard to sports and recreational outlets. As we know, in most communities, sports...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is called parochialism.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will substantially increase the amount women in receipt of deserted wife's benefit are allowed to earn in employment before their benefit is affected in view of the fact that from June 2006 persons in receipt of one-parent family payment, earning between €146.50 and €375.00 per week, can still qualify for a reduced...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste confirm that I heard correctly on RTE radio this morning that she proposes to hand the care of our elderly people over to a money-grubbing private American-based franchise, which will rip €10——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: It will rip €10 for every hour a home carer would work caring for the elderly. The Tánaiste will not resource the public home help system——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——yet she proposes this.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: There is a legislative point which was raised this morning. The so-called Comfort Keepers website——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——states that it will bring the comfort business to Ireland. I know the Progressive Democrats Party takes the biscuit——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——for crassness when it comes to how the health service should be treated.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Rather than asking the Tánaiste when the legislation will be introduced or whether this will be put on a statutory basis, I ask her, for the sake of decency and our elderly, to scrap this crass incredible privatisation.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: I asked about the——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: I asked about legislation.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: What about franchises? The Tánaiste refuses to——