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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister cannot compare residents and taxpayers with vandals.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: In many parts of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and other areas around the country, ordinary householders and taxpayers have been peacefully protesting against the installation of water meters, because they know that these are the tools by which the Government is to impose yet another austerity tax upon them. These people have been forced to carry so much already, as part of the bailout of bankers...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: I put it to the Minister that she is coming at it from the wrong angle completely. The fact is that this new water tax, which will be a huge burden on families - the Taoiseach said the so-called full cost recovery will be €580 per household - is a tax too far and there is outrage about it. Fine Gael and the Labour Party learned that in the campaign for the recent elections....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the presence of a large number of gardaí at a peaceful community protest by residents against the installation of water meters at Tonlegee Drive, Edenmore, Dublin 5 on 12 June 2014; and if, in view of this and the presence of gardaí at other similar peaceful protests around the country, she believes it is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: I ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to justify the presence of large numbers of gardaí at peaceful community protests against the installation of water meters in Dublin and elsewhere, particularly in the light of the fact that the austerity programme that gave rise to water meters and water charges has been totally discredited and now has no mandate following the recent elections.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 75. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a Garda investigation has been launched into the treatment, death and burial of children at the Bon Secours mother and baby home, Tuam, County Galway, between 1925 and 1961. [26755/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish a public inquiry into the policing of protests related to the Shell/Corrib gas project at Rossport, County Mayo. [26754/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine the process for the issuing of deportation orders in the case of persons who have abided by their visa conditions and left the State having deportation orders issued against them and thereby causing difficulty when wishing to re-enter the State. [26758/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform family law prior to any future referendum on marriage equality to give same-sex civil partners the same legal entitlements and rights as married couples. [26756/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there has been a discontinuation of the supply of free EU intervention surplus cheese; and the alternative means by which the families who previously benefited from this scheme via community based organisations who disbursed it on behalf of his Department can continue to avail of same. [27201/14]

Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Bill updates the principal legislation, namely, the Mercantile Marine Act 1955. It is appropriate to revise existing law and centralise the registration of ships in the manner indicated by moving from the current diverse and scattered procedure in which some 12 different decentralised authorities are responsible for registration. It is also appropriate to commence the process of...

Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: I agree with Deputy Ó Caoláin. As the date of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 suggests, it is a full 16 years ago. The draconian measures deemed appropriate at that time, but with which I disagreed, have, even by the standards of the Government, long since passed. There should be appropriate time for a much deeper and more meaningful discussion on the dangers...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: I will be insisting that the Taoiseach comes in front of it himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach began by speaking about youth unemployment being discussed at the OECD meeting but he did not outline whether any concrete proposals came from the OECD regarding the scandal of the extent of youth unemployment throughout the European Union, particularly in the so-called peripheral states, the victims of austerity, where up to half the young people available for work are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the OECD meeting in Paris in early February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10469/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (17 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an increase in rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16. [25385/14]

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: And about a gun to the head of workers-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is about the effective tax rate.

Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: No; it is not agreed.

Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: Yes. That is fine.