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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2014)
Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had with church leaders. [14917/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)
Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure has met since the winter recess. [14916/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)
Joe Higgins: I am sure the interjection by the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, is meant to be helpful but unfortunately it is more difficult than that. We are not allowed to frame a question asking what was discussed at the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is the problem. The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, would have to deal with constitutional change before we could ask a question along the lines he suggests. That leaves us with a problem. In fairness to the Ceann Comhairle, until now he has seen how limited that formula is and he has allowed latitude to discuss issues arising from the Cabinet committee on economic infrastructure, for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Jul 2014)
Joe Higgins: What role does the Cabinet committee have in that regard and have there been urgent meetings to deal with the issue?
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)
Joe Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will guarantee that a child care service (details supplied) in Dublin will remain open and fully funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27989/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: There is one minute and fifty seconds remaining.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: To be honest, the next question on infrastructure is very important and should remain on the agenda until the next day. May I ask a supplementary question on social policy?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has gone on at length decrying the homelessness situation in Dublin and the State. I wondered to myself, "Has this man been in power for the past three years?".
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach shows tendencies similar to one of his predecessors, the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. I often argued with him across the floor and he suffered regular bouts of amnesia as he described the terrible problems in society to the House. He made no connection between these problems and the fact that he had been in charge for years. Will the Taoiseach please remind himself of his...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is the public sector in which I am interested.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: Which scheme does that come under?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: If I heard the Taoiseach correctly, he said that the Cabinet committee on social policy had met twice since Christmas. Is that correct?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: If I ask the Taoiseach what happened at those meetings I will be ruled out of order by the Ceann Comhairle, so I will ask my question in a different way. What is the point of the Cabinet committee on social policy when the whole thrust of the Government's economic and social policies is anti-social in terms of its effect on working people and poor people as well as middle and lower income...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy last met since the Christmas recess. [10470/14]
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: Everyone agrees that decision-making needs to be significantly expedited. I thoroughly agree, but my question deals with existing conditions because the people in direct provision accommodation still face a long period of time in the system. Does the Minister agree that the living conditions enforced on people as a consequence of the current method used are inhuman? As she noted, 38% of...
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will not make any suggestion concerning how some of the horror stories we have heard in recent weeks about our past and how children were treated can be equated with what is happening today. However, I will make the general point that we have learned lessons from the horrors inflicted on people, including women and children, particularly in the past. Taking into account what I said, I put...
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will end the system of direct provision for asylum seekers; and her views on the number of children in the system, the length of time spent by asylum seekers in direct provision centres, the living conditions and standards, and the absence of independent inspection or complaints procedure. [26757/14]
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: I would like to ask the Minister to deal with the issue of direct provision for those seeking asylum and the unsuitability of continuing with those arrangements in view of the effect on the human beings who are the subject of this, particularly children.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is the Minister comparing residents to vandals?