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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): JobBridge Scheme (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: What is the difference between the scheme and Government policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): JobBridge Scheme (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of JobBridge participants who have worked in his Department. [43816/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): JobBridge Scheme (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: In recent years quite a number of workers have joined the public sector on insecure temporary contracts and have been retained on successive contracts beyond the permissible period. When such workers took legal cases seeking permanent status, they succeeded, but were then granted conditions of employment inferior to those in their original contracts. Are any such workers employed by the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste should apologise-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub committee on mortgage arrears and credit availability was held; and when the next one is scheduled. [35185/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that the number of mortgages on private homes in arrears continues to be a source of very grave concern? The Central Bank has announced that in quarter 2 about 120,000 mortgages were still in arrears, of which up to 90,000 were in arrears for over 90 days. It is worrying that in quarter 2, 1,752 private principal dwelling houses were in arrears for over 720 days, or...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is not unprecedented. It was done in the 1970s.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should condemn the Labour Party for telling lies before the last general election.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is not agreed that this issue should be taken without debate. This is a proposal that one Fine Gael member leaves the commission and is replaced by a second, at a time when the majority of the Opposition, the Technical Group and Sinn Féin, have no representation on this commission. This is a fundamental problem, particularly now with the situation faced by the Technical Group where...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I never made that point before.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: When is the Minister meeting Unite? Is Unite in the delegation?

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will the Minister meet Unite?

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister had better get real on this issue because we are going to step up the legitimate pressure for justice for these workers and for others in similar situations. The Minister read a script that any Fine Gael Minister could have done just as well.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: There is no dispute about the fact these workers have been abused. This is rife. The Minister’s predecessor was told about it and neither he nor she has dealt with it. The Minister waves CAS in front of me exactly as it was waved in front of me when I exposed the industrial-scale exploitation by GAMA Construction in 2005. Some of the same arguments were made about the tendering...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is an absolute outrage that working men - it could be women in other circumstances - are forced to come to this House of Parliament, this Dáil, to ask the Government to implement its own writ in regard to how publicly-funded construction contracts, such as schools, hospitals and so on, should be managed to ensure that workers' rights and tax compliance are fully above board. What we...

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: With regard to promised Dáil business and sittings, will the Taoiseach tell me precisely when will we have the promised debate on the water charging regime he intends to continue to enforce on our people? I ask him to please not tell me it is when the Government has finished its deliberations.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is a start. I ask the Taoiseach to elaborate. We are six weeks into a charging regime and vulnerable and scared people-----

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----do not even know what the Taoiseach will be looking for. I ask him to say which day next week we will have a decision and a debate.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will we have the debate on Wednesday?

Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Before I agree the proposal, agree not to oppose it, or propose a variation on it, could I ask the Taoiseach to tell us when precisely we will have the promised debate on water charges?