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Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (7 Dec 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Transport the way the proceeds of the sale of the site of the Irish Glass Bottle Company will be divided between the Dublin Port Company, the directors of a company (details supplied) and the shareholders of that company. [42134/06]

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (7 Dec 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport the process by which a company (details supplied) was able to acquire the site on which the Irish Glass Bottle Company was located and enter into an arrangement with the Dublin Port Company to sell this asset. [42135/06]

Departmental Bodies. (12 Dec 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the communications unit in his Department. [42770/06]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 470: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the construction of a new secondary school for the Castleknock area, Dublin 15 as a matter of urgency. [42422/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the actions he will take arising from recent reports of collusion between the British authorities and loyalist paramilitaries. [42771/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the four neurologists budgeted for 2005 will be appointed. [43419/06]

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: I wish to remind the Taoiseach that this debate is not about newspaper headlines. It is about public patients suffering acutely on hospital waiting lists and in our hospitals because of a simple failure by his Government. He has gone all over the place with figures so I will keep the focus of my question narrow. Later tonight an excellent motion on cancer care tabled by the Independent...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: These are the 3,000 beds that the Government parties ripped out ruthlessly in the 1980s when they aimed at the old, the sick and the handicapped. If the Government rips out thousands of beds, naturally it will have an acute difficulty. If in the meantime the population increases by three quarters of a million people it will have a full-blown crisis. That is as simple as A,B,C. The...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that the Government stands over a two-tier health system which it sponsors and nurtures. That is having a grievous impact on the plight of public patients including those who are very ill. For the most part private hospitals do not cater for the very ill. They cherrypick the profitable procedures and the very sick and those requiring high maintenance are directed back into...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: I did not say that.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is rewriting the script.

Departmental Estimates. (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Estimate for 2007 for his Department. [42776/06]

Employment of People with Disabilities. (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach his Department's policy on the employment of people with a disability. [42779/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [42759/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42761/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [42763/06]

Order of Business (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the ordering of business in the Dáil and promised legislation. I received a letter from the Chief Whip stating that the 25 Bills to be published reflect the Government's determination to fulfil its commitments outlined in An Agreed Programme for Government. Is the Taoiseach confusing the ninth month of pregnancy for the first? How can he seriously suggest...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: Can we be serious please? The Ceann Comhairle, as Chair of the Dáil, should see that the Government is serious about promised legislation.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: How many of the 25 Bills does the Taoiseach say will be not just published but debated and concluded before the dissolution of Dáil Éireann?

Cancer Services: Motion. (31 Jan 2007)

Joe Higgins: I move: That Dáil Éireann, conscious of the fact that 20,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the State each year with 7,500 dying from the disease:— calls on the Minister for Health and Children to make a clear and comprehensive statement on current services for cancer patients in this State and to clarify in detail the position on the implementation of the national plan for...