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- Other Questions: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is é seo an rud is bunúsaí. Nuair a theastaíonn ó mhuintir na Gaeltachta, nó lucht labhartha na Gaeilge in aon áit sa tír, a gcuid gnó a dhéanamh leis an tseirbhís phoiblí trí Ghaeilge, ba cheart go mbeadh duine éigin ann chun labhairt leo ar an bpointe. Ní chóir go mbeidís ag feitheamh le duine éigin...
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I put it to the Minister that the recovery is more apparent than real. Ordinary people do not feel the recovery in their daily lives, in their pockets and in the availability of enough jobs. I put it to the Minister that inner city Dublin needs attention but so too do the suburbs where there is very high unemployment, many problems and a huge housing crisis. A resolution of those problems...
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, would you consider taking No. 22 with No. 10 as it is essentially the same subject?
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Both questions deal with the same subject. Deputy Ó Cuív kindly told me he would not object.
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Tá sé sin ceart go leor.
- Other Questions: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the implementation of the 20 year strategy for the Irish language by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16816/14]
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his meeting with the delegation from the European Parliament's committee on regional development last month. [16814/14]
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Could the Minister report on the meeting with a delegation from the European Parliament's committee on regional development?
- Other Questions: Regional Development (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Would the Minister agree that it is a tragedy and a shame to see the effect of the economic crisis and the baleful effects of austerity, particularly in regional areas and rural Ireland? This is iconically illustrated by the inability of local GAA clubs and possibly other sports to field teams because young people are forced out through lack of employment. Does the Minister agree that...
- Other Questions: Haddington Road Agreement Review (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister raises fundamental issues when he states that without the Haddington Road agreement, we would not have had a budget. His argument is based on the acceptance of the troika programme of compelling Irish people to assume tens of billions of euro in debt that did not belong to them. The Government could have broken this cycle but decided instead to continue to sacrifice nurses,...
- Other Questions: Haddington Road Agreement Review (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the implementation of the Haddington Road agreement. [16812/14]
- Other Questions: Haddington Road Agreement Review (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on the implementation of the Haddington Road agreement and outline the real effects of that agreement.
- Other Questions: Haddington Road Agreement Review (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The effects of the Haddington Road agreement are now becoming obvious in the form of a deterioration of public services from the point of view of ordinary people and are destructive of public services. The recent Prime Time exposé of a crisis in the ambulance service shows that it is not possible to take thousands of workers from public services, including the health service, and still...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Minister agree with me that it is a fallacy to sell crucial State assets to create competition when, in fact, the State, especially if it restructured the boards of assets such as electricity generation and gas companies in a democratic way, could determine the price and a fair price for ordinary people could be achieved? He did not answer my question on Bord Gáis and I call on...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----the Whitegate power plant which only came into commercial production four years ago, at a cost of €400 million? The calculation is that the Government realised €40 million for it in the sale.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I appeal to the Minister to explain it in some detail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The rationale for putting Uisce Éireann under the umbrella of Bord Gáis was so-called synergies and that Bord Gáis had a database of consumers and customers, etc. Where does the Government's sale leave that rationale?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister give me a breakdown of the components?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is incredible.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: If a farmer brings his or her herd of cattle to the mart, he or she knows the price of each one.