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Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said nothing that will give consolation to the tens of thousands of young workers who need homes. He said nothing to console those stuck with 30 or 40 year mortgages. In fact, he lauded the concept of longer term mortgages. Some people will be saddled with mortgage repayments into their 70s. On the Taoiseach's watch, the price of an ordinary home increased by nine times the rate...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is to the eternal shame of this Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government. We do not hear a squawk from the Progressive Democrats about this. Naturally, as far as it is concerned, that is the capitalist market. The Taoiseach said nothing to indicate that house prices will stop increasing and gave no indication of a Government measure to stop the increase. Is that because the...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: They built more houses in the 1930s.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Fianna Fáil was in power when that happened, not me.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The population is increasing so that is not surprising. The Taoiseach is in the pockets of speculators.

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent United Nations conference on AIDS in New York. [23313/06]

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan. [23315/06]

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mr. Mustafa Abubakar, the Governor of Aceh. [23316/06]

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the agenda for the June European Council summit. [23317/06]

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: On foot of the summit on AIDS, what kind of perspective was put forward with regard to, for example, the 26 million people in Africa who live with HIV-AIDS, of whom only 1% receive anti-AIDS drugs? Internationally, what kind of perspective was outlined in respect of the 40 million or so people with AIDS, of whom perhaps 5% receive anti-retroviral drugs treatment? Was a perspective offered as...

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent meeting of the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership. [23314/06]

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: If I heard the Taoiseach correctly, he said the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships has a crucial role in identifying appropriate issues to be addressed. How is that role fulfilled in identifying global infrastructural needs in our society? Does the Taoiseach accept that social and physical infrastructure is disastrously lacking in areas with the most...

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: With respect to the Minister of State, Deputy Lenihan, he would be much better off finding school places for the 100 children who have none in the Dublin West constituency than venturing to Dublin Airport where there is already enough capacity. However, that is for another day.

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: How can the Government allow a situation develop where thousands of homes in west Dublin, for example, have no community facility where people can meet?

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: My question is in the way of being general but it is honing in on the identification of appropriate issues. The creation of social infrastructure alongside the thousands of homes being built is an appropriate issue. I am asking the Taoiseach about the role of this committee in that. It is a similar situation in burgeoning commuter towns. This morning I was in Laytown and Bettystown in east...

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: How does the Taoiseach propose to direct the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships to deal with this critical situation?

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Are schools under its umbrella?

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: All of its members will finish up permanently in the Department.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: That was a great cue from the Taoiseach. This is my last opportunity to raise a query on Leaders' Questions before the recess.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I wish to demand an overall account of the Taoiseach's stewardship of Irish society. Does he agree that two key headlines this morning aptly sum up his Government's record? Multimillionaires wallow in a tax break bonanza, but in the second-richest country in Europe, we do not need a report from Sweden but only the testimony of pensioners on trolleys to confirm that in terms of our health...