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- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unfair Dismissals (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 255. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the average current waiting time for a person to have his or her case for unfair dismissal heard by the Employment Appeals Tribunal or the rights commissioner. [18765/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unfair Dismissals (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 256. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in instances where findings are made by the Employment Appeal Tribunal or rights commissioner against employers resulting in compensation for unfair dismissal or orders to pay unpaid wages the rate of employer compliance with those findings and how often are subsequent enforcement measures required. [18766/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations Issues (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of pension-related disputes involving employer attempts to close or alter defined benefit schemes currently before the Labour Relations Commission. [18767/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes currently in deficit and the amount. [18761/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount her Department spent on the State pension in 2013. [18764/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Application Numbers (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons or families currently on the social housing waiting lists in the four Dublin local authorities and the number among them that have been on those waiting lists for five years or more. [18768/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (30 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if in the case of a visa applicant with a physical disability, if their physical disability is a consideration when assessing if the applicant has sufficient finances or when assessing if granting a visa may result in a cost to public funds and-or public resources. [19226/14]
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Government's universal health insurance policy is designed to lead to further wholesale privatisation in the Irish health service, particularly in the area of hospital care. If anyone doubts this, all he or she need do is return to the source of this policy. I refer, in this regard, to the FairCare document which was published by Fine Gael five or six years ago. That document is...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: What about the discussion I asked the Tánaiste to confirm?
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: A great deal has changed since yesterday.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste clarify whether the Labour Party believes that, when it imposes a water tax-----
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----the tax comes with an in-built Labour anaesthetic-----
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----and causes no pain and hurts no one? If that is not the case-----
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----will the Tánaiste tell us how Labour will save us from Fine Gael hurting us all?
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Labour even showed a water tap to make the point that it would stop Fine Gael from introducing a water charge of €238.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Sorry.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Sometimes, people have to be reminded of what they said because they tend to forget.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach firmly promised me yesterday that, when the Dáil returned after Easter and well before the local and European elections, the Government would present in detail its pricing structure and proposals for water.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is that detail agreed? Will the definitive information-----
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----that the Government was not ready or want to give yesterday be before us?