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- Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Can the Ceann Comhairle ask the Tánaiste to answer? I asked a question that was in order.
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: I asked a question that was in order. Will the Tánaiste answer?
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: That will only give another three-year free run.
- Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach his legislative priorities for the Dáil session beginning 2007. [42760/06]
- Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Where does the Government's proposals on a constitutional referendum on the rights of children stand? Have the proposals and the proposed wording been finalised? When does the Government propose to bring the necessary legislation for this referendum before Dáil Ãireann? Is the Taoiseach concerned that the commencement of a general election campaign in less than three months could hinder...
- Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach have a target date for a referendum?
- Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Is there any question of holding such a referendum on the same day as a general election? Does holding a referendum in April followed by a general election a few weeks later provide a feasible timescale for these important issues?
- Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Leaving aside that issue and other legislative priorities for a moment, on the Order of Business last week I tried to ask the Tánaiste about the 35 Bills the Government states it will publish between now and the end ofââ
- Legislative Programme. (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: A general question would be in order ifââ
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Is the Government taking any emergency measures to rescue half of the population of this State from the shocking debacle that the Taoiseach has allowed to develop in the area of private health insurance? Is there the slightest hint of embarrassment in his Government that the policy of privatisation he has pursued for ten years has, in this particular instance, become a monster that is...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: The question is very simple. I can help the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: He is not sure.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: I could not be clearer.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach introduce emergency legislation to stop speculators walking all over ordinary people who wish to retain their private health insurance?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Will he ensure speculators will not walk away with a fortune, while smashing the concept of community rating?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Why has this matter been left until the eleventh hour, when the damage may well already have been done? Why did the Government not react immediately when the issue was flagged last July? It is clear that there is no urgency on this issue. Such negligence of the highest kind reflects the Government's bias in favour of those who see the human and health needs of people simply as a cold...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: It has been doing so since last July.
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Finance if, he will extend the provisions in the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, by which a person obliged to leave the family home and buy another property due to judicial separation or divorce may still be regarded as a first time buyer for the purposes of stamp duty, to unmarried, cohabiting couples. [3595/07]
- Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. [1604/07]
- Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to undertake during 2007. [1606/07]