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- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: There is legislation banning the trafficking of children, but there is no legislation specifically banning the trafficking of young women into this country for prostitution.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: On a point of order, this is very important. I am entitled to ask about legislation.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes. The Minister for Finance said on "Questions and Answers" on RTE last night that legislation would be introduced in this regard.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: When will it be introduced?
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: There is a more long-standing order of the House covering Leaders' Questions. Is the Government trying to add to the agony of the tens of thousands of young workers who are priced out of the housing market? The Minister for Social and Family Affairs announced a study, which will take several months, on some kind of mortgage support for them, during which the price of a house will have...
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Typical young workers are in their 30s and in Dublin they will pay â¬375,000 for a new home. My Independent colleagues advise me that a similar position applies through the country.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Young people who must pay â¬375,000 for a three bedroomed home are forced to take a 40-year mortgage. This morning I asked a bank manager to work out the figures based on the house price I gave and he told me that, on a mere 4% constant interest, a person would have to pay a staggering â¬750,000 before he or she would own the home. If interest rates increase to only 6%, the house buyer...
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Rich doctors, rich lawyers and politicians are up to their necks in it. Endless acreage of advertising by house developers means endless millions in advertising revenue for newspaper proprietors. There is a powerful vested coalition of interests conspiring to cover up the extent of the rip-off of young workers and the Government is assisting those vested interests. How does the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: They cannot afford to buy a home, as the Taoiseach well knows.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Government has been in power for nine years.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is meaningless.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: After nine years in powerââ
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is fooling nobody.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: He has been in power for nine years.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I would like to ask a supplementary question.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: What about my supplementary questions?
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I wanted to ask some supplementary questions.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach never answered my questions.
- Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [14275/06]
- Programme for Government. (16 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach accept that as he moves towards the fifth year of a second term in Government the vast bulk of An Agreed Programme for Government should have been implemented at this stage? How does he explain to the people who watched the RTE "Prime Time" special last night that a senior doctor in the British health service would compare with the Third World some of the conditions in a...