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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: People know very well that it will increase inexorably as soon as the pressure is off. The Taoiseach should not fool himself in that regard. He can take it from me that I am speaking for the grassroots here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: On the role of the Economic Management Council, I would like to refer to the phone calls that were made in 2011 to the Taoiseach and allegedly to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, from the then president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, who demanded absolutely that the Government would not burn some bondholders it was apparently about to burn. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is the role of the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: They are saying "no way - we won't pay".

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: They are paying for it already.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committee meetings that were held in July, August and September 2014. [35180/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The problem with questions to the Taoiseach is that the lead-in time before they are answered is so long that the answers to which the Taoiseach deliberately confines himself are out of date. For example, he could have taken the opportunity to apprise us of what Cabinet sub-committee meetings have taken place since the date in the question. In the past month we have heard about only one...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is rubbish.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 121. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 9 October 2014 the number and percentage of the 13,743 Health Service Executive staff on fixed term-specified purpose contracts as of August 2014 were employed through employment agencies; if he will provide details of the fees, total amount and average percentage of employee salary paid to agencies in this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his discussions on the extension of free general practitioner visits to those under six years of age and over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42789/14]

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste give me the time, date and duration of the debate on water charges? People deserve to know the level of charges the Government will force them to boycott en masse in January.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: In respect of the International Agreements on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Taxation Bill, on the morning when The Irish Timesexposes the most incredible tax dodging by Irish corporations purporting to work in Luxembourg, where they have as much work as they would have on the Blasket Islands, when will the Government stop this incredible scamming on tax by major corporations when...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am speaking about the International Agreements on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Taxation Bill. Yesterday, women in their sixties were manhandled by the gardaí.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste is responsible for this disgraceful situation. What will she do to stop the gardaí brutalising local communities for opposing water charges?

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am saying that right around this country, there is an insurrection against the Government's new austerity tax. People are being manhandled and brutalised by her gardaí and I am calling her to account to stop it.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: No, the Government is abusing them.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Labour Party changed its mind after it ran its Tesco advertisement.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Of course, we want people to have proper decent jobs in the public sector with proper pensions and conditions, but that has been made far more difficult by the fact that the Government and the previous Administration did not replace up to 30,000 public sector workers. Does the Minister not see the difficulty of staff in PeoplePoint with up to two years experience who hope to be made...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce the level of temporary staffing across the public sector by converting such posts to permanent contracts. [42069/14]

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I wish to ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he will reduce the very high level of temporary staffing across the public sector by converting such posts to permanent jobs.