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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the measures in place to financially assist undergraduate and postgraduate students with children; the measures she will implement to give assistance to such students where existing payments and assistance are insufficient to allow for continuation in study; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38153/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (7 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 408. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with other Heads of Government on the issue of Gaza and the other occupied Palestinian territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35192/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (7 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have left undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 due to financial reasons; the measures she has in place to assist students with children keeping their places in university; the steps she will take to improve retention of students with children in undergraduate and...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: And not one word about the €500 families cannot afford to pay.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is because it is never levied at 12.5%.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is not agreed. The Taoiseach is proposing to ram through the House without debate double taxation relief agreements with five countries on the day that the European Union Commission, which is as right-wing and neoliberal a body as one could find, says that successive Irish Governments have allowed Apple, a major multinational, to siphon off billions of euro from the Irish taxpayer into...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: If small businesses pay tax-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Deputy should cross the floor-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: After the euro area summit in June 2012, the Minister made lavish claims in the Dáil that this meant one of the euro financial mechanisms would be used to replace the massive €64 billion Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, followed by Fine Gael and the Labour Party, had forced Irish taxpayers to pay to bail out the European financial market system. That was two years and a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: Did he take Irish Water with him by any chance?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with other Heads of State in Brussels in May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26764/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Government officials during his visit to Germany in July 2014. [30901/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the European Council meeting in August; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35189/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk. [35191/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with other Heads of Government on the issue of Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35194/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub-Committee on Public Service Reform took place and when the next meeting is scheduled. [30898/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: In the statement of Government priorities 2014-2016, the Taoiseach said the Government - Fine Gael and Labour - was now setting its key priorities and that priority number five was the rebuilding of trust in politics and public institutions. In the week that is in it, when the Taoiseach wove such a tangled web that he does not really know where he stands by using and abusing a public...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has been in government for three and a half years. Why are the proposals he has just made, which I have not yet had the opportunity to study, being proposed for 1 November, some three and a half years after he stood and promised his democratic revolution and the cleaning up of politics? Both Fine Gael and the Labour Party are up to their necks in the cronyism stakes, with...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is business as usual. This is the same type of patronage and cronyism I have seen going on in Irish politics by the right wing political parties in the State for 40 years. What the Government is doing now is what Mr. Haughey and the rest of them and other Governments did over the past 40 years, yet it is three and a half years into office and it is now promising that from 1 November this...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is absolute rubbish. Irish Water has underestimated the amounts used, and the Taoiseach knows that.