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- Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (4 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the signposts for Dingle/Daingean Uà Chúis have had the English version of the name taped over while towns such as Dungloe, Belmullet, Ballyvourney and Spiddal have not had bilingual signposts interfered with. [13319/07]
- Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (4 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will accede to the request of Kerry County Council to have the bilingual names of Dingle and Daingean Uà Chúis restored following the plebiscite which supported this view. [13318/07]
- Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: As the Ceann Comhairle is well aware, for many years we have pursued with the Taoiseach and urged the Government to find a way to get to the truth of the murky origins of the appalling atrocity of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. The day after the publication of the MacEntee report, the relatives and victims, those who have suffered, are still seeking the truth and it is clear that...
- Insurance Industry. (5 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Is there a Minister with responsibility for justice in the House?
- Insurance Industry. (5 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: I am disappointed the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is not present because this is a serious situation, as he acknowledged yesterday. Last weekend The Sunday Tribune published a memorandum to claims supervisors in the Quinn Direct group outlining a series of steps being taken to drastically reduce the cost of claims to this group and therefore to dramatically...
- Insurance Industry. (5 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: This issue is in the public domain.
- Insurance Industry. (5 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: I will discuss the point with the Ceann Comhairle at another time. I will be more general for the remainder of this contribution. However, I have said things before which have proved to be true. What is undeniable is that the profits of insurance companies have rocketed in recent years to the tune of hundreds of millions of euro â up to â¬500 million. Clearly, the number of vehicles on...
- Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain in the State by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [14050/07]
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the social partners. [8942/07]
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [12302/07]
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree the first five percentage points wage increase over a 15-month period which is provided for in the social partnership document Towards 2016 has been wiped out before it has been implemented, given the annual rate of inflation for March registered at 5.1%? Can he give us one good reason why workers should tolerate being constrained to these wage limits when the...
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle called me at 3.04 p.m. I sat here patiently. I am asking my second supplementary question.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: As we are in the swan song days of this Dáil, does the Taoiseach agree he has no moral authority to take a cudgel to beat back the nurses in their demands for equality and for a decent wage when not once in ten years did he raise a voice or a finger to stop speculators, developers and big builders putting homes out of the reach of ordinary working people? The Taoiseach mentioned the...
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Has he entertained the knock-on effects of profiteering in the housing market whereby, ten years on, a worker on the average industrial wage is scarcely able to purchase the doors and windows, let alone a house. In view of that, is social partnership not a sham which has added handsomely to the rocketing profits of big business at the expense of workers?
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: What about electricity?
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: The regulator is implementing Government policy.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said nothing to the speculators.
- Social Partnership Talks. (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not raise a finger to stop them.
- Written Answers — National Strategy for Older People: National Strategy for Older People (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will commit to the development and implementation of a national strategy for older people as recommended by the older and bolder campaign to age proof all policy, legislation and access to services and deliver equality for older people. [14578/07]
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (24 Apr 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the immediate steps she is taking to meet the target of one neurologist per 100,000 population recommended in the National Hospital's Office report published in 2003. [14187/07]