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Sport and Recreational Development. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: I hope the Minister and his Department will consider the proposal positively. When I was first elected to Dublin County Council, as it was in 1991, there was a proposal for a regional park for greater Blanchardstown, comprising those lands. Unfortunately, the Department of Agriculture and Food blocked that at every hand's turn and the people of Blanchardstown did not get their regional park....

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: At the Irish Medical Organisation conference last weekend doctors committed to the public health service, as opposed to those who see health as a source of speculation or profit, raised strong questions on Government policy in facilitating private hospitals with generous tax breaks and other concessions. How does the Taoiseach answer the assertion from those who are deeply committed to public...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Did it ever strike the Taoiseach that it is those who are genuinely committed to public health care and the health service who oppose the privatisation policy of his Government whereas those who favour it are the speculators, including certain sections of the medical profession who seek to gain by investing — in other words, speculating — in health care? The Taoiseach showed himself...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——would think of a Government that pushes for a private hospital on the grounds of a public hospital named after him, with the Government providing huge tax breaks to the speculators who would take up that venture? He would be as withering about the Taoiseach and his Government's policy as he was towards their equivalents in his own day. Will the Taoiseach state which policy will be...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Whose view will prevail? Who is running the country?

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: How many public beds, which he should already have provided, does the Taoiseach suggest should be provided and how many will he provide? Does he acknowledge that citing figures, as frequently happens, in regard to the billions of euro invested in the health service does not elucidate the question whatsoever? In fact, we are lower by far than the EU average criterion with regard to public...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should not try to confuse the issue by referring to day patients and the like. There is now a tendency in certain quarters to push women who have just given birth out of the hospital on the evening of the birth or the next morning. That is not real health care for our people.

Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: A huge number do not want private medicine. They are driven to it.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make capital funding available to build the planned women's refuge in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. [14531/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has under-resourced the public home help service while at the same time subsidised private companies providing home help services through the Health Service Executive and through the recently introduced €1,000 home care grant. [15372/06]

Written Answers — Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian Aid (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 375: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a report from the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Relief and Work Agency that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster due to lack of money and of basic food supplies; and if he will raise this matter at the level of the EU the UN...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, further to data received from Gama Construction and Gama Endustri concerning wages paid to their Turkish workers employed here, he has been informed of the number of workers who had accounts in their name in Finansbank Holland in Amsterdam and the total; if all of their workers have been informed of the accounts in...

Written Answers — Company Ownership: Company Ownership (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 415: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has established who the beneficial owners of a company (details supplied) were in 2005 when millions of euro in Gama workers' wages were channelled into this company. [14632/06]

Written Answers — Dublin Airport Authority: Dublin Airport Authority (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will establish an independent pension scheme for the employees of the Dublin Airport Authority. [15375/06]

Written Answers — Airlines Pension Scheme: Airlines Pension Scheme (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in respect of the topping up of the Irish airlines pension scheme, he will top up the entire scheme or just the Aer Lingus portion of the scheme. [15376/06]

Written Answers — Airlines Pension Scheme: Airlines Pension Scheme (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 523: To ask the Minister for Transport how he intends to resolve the under funding of the Irish airlines pension scheme in relation to former Aer Lingus employees, now working for a company (details supplied) who are members of the scheme. [15377/06]

Written Answers — Airlines Pension Scheme: Airlines Pension Scheme (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 524: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount by which a company's (details supplied) portion of the Irish airlines pension scheme is under funded; and the amount of this under funding which is the responsibility of Aer Lingus. [15378/06]

Written Answers — Judicial Recommendations: Judicial Recommendations (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 654: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of the recommendations made by a judge (details supplied) that have been implemented to date. [14573/06]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 908: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans for a new secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in view of the large and growing population increase in this area. [15387/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [14267/06]