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Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Whatever about Deputy Johnny Brady, several of his colleagues should have ended up there long ago.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Deputies McGuinness and Andrews are beginning to adopt the confident air of a Fletcher Christian.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Like the ill-fated Captain Bligh, whose ill temper he certainly displayed last week, the Taoiseach might find himself adrift. As for his partners in Government, the political dysfunctionals — not our description but that of their friends, the party trustees — the digging match between the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Tánaiste would do justice to two junior GAA...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has one year in which to make changes. Will he indicate three steps he will take in the interests of working-class people to resolve the critical issues to which I referred, particularly in the areas of health and infrastructural deficits?

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I dealt last week with the impossible housing situation for tens of thousands of young working people. That situation remains the same. The Government has failed disastrously on the critical issue of infrastructure for burgeoning communities. Deputy Cowley and I, representing Independent Deputies, were in Laytown in east Meath this morning where 89 children do not have school places for...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: We have had a doubling of the population.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: People are spending hours in traffic every day.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should ask the former Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, where the new school is in Laytown.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The pupils had to use the parish house for their classes.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: There is no new school there.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should come into the real world. In the real world there are hundreds of children who cannot find school places for next September.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should come into the real world.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I spoke for less time than anyone else, but that is okay.

Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is attempting to impose an outside of hours general practitioner service on the people of west Kerry, in view of the fact the local population demands cover by local doctors who are known to them and who are prepared to provide the service. [24647/06]

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: How much have PAYE workers paid over a number of years?

Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [23318/06]

Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree with the argument in the Economic Outlook 2006, published by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, that profits have risen very rapidly and that the wage-profit share in the economy has been skewed away from labour to employers in a remarkable fashion? Does he accept that the statistics show that national agreements between Government, bosses and trade unions since 1987...

Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is a question. I am asking the Taoiseach whether he agrees that no effective barriers have been placed in the way of employers getting rid of workers in favour of cheaper labour, especially cheaper migrant labour? This question merits an answer. Does the Taoiseach agree that the entire partnership process, even while it was being negotiated this time around, has been shown again to be a...

School Accommodation. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Tá mé ag roinnt leath mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Cowley. I rise to give voice to the extreme concerns of parents and their children in the Laytown-Bettystown area of east Meath. Those children will need a place this September in Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa in Laytown. The parents' association has issued a statement: The failure locally to plan for or provide suitable and sufficient school...

School Accommodation. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: It was another slip of the tongue by the Taoiseach. Can the Minister of State tell the House when the portakabins will be in place? Will they be there for September? They will have to be.