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- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: We cannot allow to stand a figure in respect of so-called free water for those under 18 which is utterly false. Families throughout the country have been given false information.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he met President Barroso in Davos and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7490/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he had while attending the World Economic Forum at Davos. [7491/14]
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: What the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, has just said demonstrates how utterly inadequate, to say the least, is the Government's approach to what is by any standards a crisis of unprecedented proportions as far as the number of individuals and families on the housing lists is concerned. The Minister of State should listen to and examine what he said. His first canard was the creation of...
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: These unfortunate people were shunted somewhere else. This is the Ireland of 2014 over which the Government presides but it does not get the scale of the suffering. Other Deputies have related many examples. It is important to ask what happened and find the root of the crisis. What happened between the 1970s and now was neoliberalism, the privatisation of the provision of homes, the...
- Issue of Writ: Dublin West By-election (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: I support the moving of the writ for the Dublin West by-election and while regretting the unacceptable events that led to it, with a sense of humanity and compassion we should extend deep sympathy to the Nulty family who have suffered enormous loss due to the recent sudden and shocking death of Mr. Paddy Nulty. The people of Dublin West are in a position to deal a massive blow to the...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is the policy - full cost recovery.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons this year to date who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to engage with labour activation schemes. [19740/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 74. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to engage with labour activation schemes in the first half of 2013; and the number in the second half of 2013. [19741/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended this year to date for refusing to take part in JobBridge under the youth guarantee. [19742/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to take part in the gateway scheme. [19743/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (1 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employers taking part in the JobBridge scheme that have been given a warning for giving participants in the scheme allowances for travel or food or any other expenses. [19744/14]
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is it the intention to move a writ for a by-election in Dublin West tomorrow? If that is so, what are the arrangements for it?
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will there be a short debate on the motion?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will it be this week or next week?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: When will we have the answers?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: We know that; the Taoiseach should tell us something we do not know.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: When will that be?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount income tax relief on pensions cost the Exchequer in 2013; and the percentage of that total of relief benefit to each decile of earners from the highest to the lowest. [18762/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of National Asset Management Agency owned houses and apartments that exist in the four Dublin local authority areas. [18763/14]