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Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: A full 12 months have passed since Deputy Catherine Murphy and I first raised in Dáil Éireann the novel phenomenon of management companies being forced on householders in new housing developments, which is especially hitting first-time buyers. We outlined how this was a scam to benefit developers and, depending on which services might be turned over to them, to bring about the possible...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Apartment owners need a new, simple, democratic and co-operative structure to manage their units. Happily, since Deputy Catherine Murphy and I raised the matter in the Dáil and turned it into a national issue, the local authorities have begun to put a block on this being included as a condition, which represents progress. However, some tens of thousands of householders have been caught in...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Judge Mahon's judgment in the Circuit Court had the benefit of stripping away the fig leaf. He said the developers should have pursued the householders and not the management company, because the so-called common areas had not been handed over. In other words, it is really the developers who are behind this matter. What will the Taoiseach do for the thousands stuck in this legal limbo?...

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department. [29222/06]

Programmes for Government. (25 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [29221/06]

Office of the Attorney General. (1 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the recommendations made in the Sullivan report. [35923/06]

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (1 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he has not considered submissions made under Part 9 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 in relation to the prison development at Thornton Hall. [35305/06]

Written Answers — Marine Safety: Marine Safety (1 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 484: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a foreign flagged tanker (details supplied) which in early 2006 was involved in a collision with potentially serious consequences while in the process of transporting hazardous oil products does not hold an Irish loadline certificate as required by law. [35640/06]

Written Answers — Marine Safety: Marine Safety (1 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 485: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of vessels servicing oil platforms on the Corrib Field as regards holding Irish loadline certificates as required by law. [35641/06]

Written Answers — Marine Accidents: Marine Accidents (1 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 486: To ask the Minister for Transport if an investigation was conducted by his Department into an incident whereby a foreign flagged tanker (details supplied) was involved in a collision with potentially serious consequences while in the process of transporting hazardous oil products in early 2006; and if he will publish details of this investigation. [35642/06]

Legislative Programme. (7 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his legislative priorities for the current Dáil session. [29212/06]

Official Engagements. (7 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion last met. [29231/06]

Commissions of Inquiry. (7 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the actions he will take following the latest report from Mr. Justice Barron. [35924/06]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (7 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 377: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the contract for a Bord Gáis network upgrade moves from a company to another company (details supplied), he will ensure that the existing terms and conditions of the 400 construction workers currently employed on the contract, which are governed by the registered employment agreement for the construction industry and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the Government draw meaningful conclusions from the drubbing received by American President George Bush and his party in the mid-term elections, which was, above all, a rejection by swelling numbers of ordinary Americans of the unspeakable barbarities unleashed on the Iraqi people by the imperialist invasion of their country? Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, men, women and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: He allowed the commander-in-chief, President Bush, to parade in Shannon with his troops. Now that the American people have rejected the bloody carnage that Mr. Bush and his neo-conservative cabal have inflicted on the people of Iraq, will the Irish Government implement the wish of the Irish people and withdraw forthwith its facilitation of, and de facto support for, the Bush war machine at...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am speechless.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is a contemptible response——

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——from an Irish Government when the entire world is today talking about the profound meaning of the outcome of the mid-term elections in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a radical, revolutionary or socialist alternative to the Republican Party but that is not the point. The point is that the vote amounts to a massive rejection of the atrocities that the Bush regime has...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——facilitated by the Government of which Mr. Cowen is a Minister. If he was convinced that the support he continues to give to American troops was right he would speak for more than ten seconds to explain to the Irish people why he defies their wishes.