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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (2 Dec 2014)

Joe Higgins: 149. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 to ensure the person receives back to education allowance or other assistance to continue in education and training. [45835/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (2 Dec 2014)

Joe Higgins: 303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce legislation to make the purchasing of prostitution an offence; the steps she will make to provide help and assistance to prostitutes seeking to leave prostitution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45772/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: In his address to the United Nations climate change meeting in September, the Taoiseach spoke about the need for a collective global response and about the need for corporations to take responsibility, to define objectives and to take action. He also spoke about the need for sustainability. The Taoiseach is correct that a global response is needed urgently considering the imminent threat of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change and the green economy was last held and for when is the next one scheduled. [35188/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the United Nations summit on climate change in September. [36526/14]

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Who implemented the charges?

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister of State could ask the Labour Party about that.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: You must be joking.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Get off the stage. Deputy White may have abandoned Trotskyism-----

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Any law can be repealed.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: No. Tax the millionaires and billionaires.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Tax the tax exiles and millionaires. Tax wealth, not the poor.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Tax the millionaires.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: At least he did not turn his back on the people, unlike the Minister, Deputy White.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is nonsense.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is very scary.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: By Independent newspapers.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I propose to share time with Deputies Mick Wallace and Joan Collins. The people of Ireland are not fools, and they recognise political trickery when they see it. Today, in the supposed concessions on water charges, they will recognise a transparent manoeuvre to get Fine Gael and the Labour Party past the next general election without being politically annihilated. It simply will not work....

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: To add to the rack-renting torture that so many people are subjected to as private tenants, the Government will appoint landlords to rob tenants' deposits. This is breathtaking. One of the most vulnerable groups in our society, those depending on private landlords, are to be subject to further robbery, with the landlord as the agent. This is some legacy for a Labour Party Minister to...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Government and the media portray this as leading the stupid mob by the nose. James Connolly answered that much more eloquently than I ever could.