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Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will require UCD to reinstate the BA Evening Course in Irish. [30184/06]

Written Answers — Communications Masts: Communications Masts (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason mobile phone companies have been allowed to place microwave transmitters on buildings in Huntstown west Dublin, metres from a primary school. [30421/06]

Social Partnership Agreements. (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [29226/06]

Social Partnership Agreements. (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29228/06]

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: People will be relieved that the Fianna Fáil backbenchers have been cured of the collective laryngitis that struck them silent last week.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: We now know that Fianna Fáil Ministers see nothing wrong with a Minister for Finance taking large amounts of money for personal use from business interests as long, they say, as there is no proof that any specific favours were done. Thereby, they defend not only the major conflict of interest involving the Taoiseach when he accepted €60,000 from wealthy individuals, but they also defend...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Tens of thousands were heartlessly priced out of the market by the speculators who financed the parties opposite. Tens of thousands are terrified of the mortgage increases — perhaps up to €200 a month — they fear are now due. That amounts to €2,400 a year, which will virtually impoverish them but it is cigar money to the wealthy people who finance the Taoiseach. Most shamefully,...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: He would not dare repeat it at the next election.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: He might try, but at least nobody will believe him this time. The lamp posts will be left to the poodles of Ranelagh to do at the base what the Tánaiste is doing today to the alleged standards he defended when he climbed up his ladder. This tawdry affair exposes a Government utterly divorced from the reality of life of ordinary people,——

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——light years removed from the struggle of ordinary working people to spread their wages over the mortgage, child care, transport and the other problems. The Taoiseach should go today not just for his grubby taking of funds from business interests, but also because his being beholden to business generally has created a society——

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——that rewards the powerful at enormous cost to ordinary people so let us have the general election now. There are further questions but I will delay them until Leaders' Questions. There are many detailed questions that the Taoiseach must still answer today.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: On RTE, the Taoiseach made the point that one of the problems he had in the 1990s was with expensive legal fees as a result of issues in which he was involved. Many Independent Deputies have made the point to me in recent days that constituents of theirs facing the same fees were not able to proceed to the courts to try to get the justice they deserved because they could not afford the fees...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Bill Gates sending his letters by carrier pigeon comes to mind. The Taoiseach said today that it was an error and a misjudgement to have taken money from these business people. Did he use those terms only because of the problems caused for him in the past week and the embarrassment and consternation to his party, not because it was wrong or because there was a potential conflict of interest?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: If the revelations came out not 13 years after his so-called loans, but perhaps 20 or 25 years later, would they still be unpaid and would they still be in the same category as they were when the Taoiseach was outed? That is quite clearly the case. The Taoiseach insists that these are not business people but just friends. He told us that he only knew two of the Manchester crew. Is he...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: For example a big influential businessman in Irish circles in Manchester was Thomas "Slab" Murphy. Did he attend any of the gigs that the Taoiseach addressed?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: What are the implications for the Revenue Commissioners? Is it not the case as a result of the precedent the Taoiseach has set that anybody who got a gift perhaps ten, 12 or 15 years ago and had not paid tax can now say, like the Prime Minister of the country, "It was a loan and you cannot get me."

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: On television the Taoiseach said that he paid gift tax and capital gains tax. On what did he pay gift tax and capital gains tax?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Was that in the tax amnesty?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: This morning, the Government turned Rossport into a police state for Shell.

Written Answers — Stardust Tragedy: Stardust Tragedy (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on his meeting with representatives of families bereaved by the Stardust tragedy. [29232/06]