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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I would first like to put a general proposition to the Minister. Does he agree that the sale of publicly owned assets was and is an extremely short-sighted policy, one which was driven by the ruthless neoliberal outlook? Does he also agree that the troika's forcing of the people to sell their assets in order to pay bankers and bondholders debts, for which they had no responsibility, was a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the State assets that have been privatised under the terms of the troika memorandum of understanding; the funds that were realised by the State from these privatisations; where these funds have gone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16916/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (10 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the assets the Government intends to privatise under the terms of the troika memorandum of understanding; the estimated amounts to be realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16917/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Meetings (10 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his visit to China and his meetings with Government officials and business leaders. [16815/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Accountability (10 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the Civil Service accountability consultation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16813/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language Issues (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]

Central Bank Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: Who called for a North Korean banking model?

Central Bank Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am just curious. Who called for a North Korean banking model?

Central Bank Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am totally opposed to the Central Bank Bill 2014 which proposes to compel the sale of €1 billion in mortgages and €1 billion in matching mortgages of ICS Building Society. The Minister of State said the Bill would support new entities in entering the Irish market and increase competition to ultimately benefit the consumer. That is palpably a false premise on which to base...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I thank Mr. Murphy. May I ask Mr. Duffy the arrangement with the Irish Mortgager Holders Organisation, to which he referred? Will he explain in detail how it works? Can each one of the 24,990 account holders potentially contact the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation to make representations on their behalf, or how does it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: In respect of the thousands of people with whom AIB has commenced a legal process, is the IMHO mediation available to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: Of the 24,990 people who are 90 days or more in arrears, what would happen if 15,000 contacted the IMHO to make representations on their behalf?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: This is a torturous situation for those people who are trapped in negative equity and with unsustainable mortgages. I have just rehearsed in the Dáil Chamber the recklessness and the profit-seeking by banks, developers and various elements that brought that about, so I will not repeat it here. It is a huge constraint on our austerity-damaged economy that so much is going into banks to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am not in a position to put comprehensive questions to the representatives of AIB for the simple reason that I was in the Dáil Chamber for the past hour and a half. I had the chief executive's opening statement in written form. It has been arranged for a very long time that the banks would come in this week. I ask the Chairman to protest to the Government Whip's office about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I have two very short questions that have not been answered. Do the witnesses have an estimate of the total value of negative equity in respect of owner-occupiers or principal dwellings, not just the 24,990 accounts that are 90 days or more in arrears?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: Does Mr. Murphy have absolute values as opposed to percentages?

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: I thought symbolism was very important. We have not heard anything else over the past two days.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will make an assessment on the impact of the lack of availability of the back to education allowance for students training to be secondary teachers in view of the fact the course has the status of a masters level qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16872/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will revisit the criteria for the back to education allowance for students training to be secondary teachers in view of the fact that the qualification is now at masters level. [16871/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 11 February 2014, if he is concerned that a German court did not accept a court order from this State relating to the child abduction case as should be done in line with the Luxembourg Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16931/14]