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Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The inescapable reality is that the Taoiseach has no real appreciation of the huge crisis and distress in the lives of so many of our people as a result of unsustainable mortgages. Over the ten-year criminal property bubble, a generation of young people were blackmailed into paying prices for the simple human right of a roof over their heads, the level of which has now imprisoned them. With...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when was the last time the Cabinet Committee on Mortgage Arrears and Credit Availability met; and when it is scheduled to reconvene. [7497/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the contradiction between the reply to the parliamentary question (details supplied) where it was indicated that the maximum point on the pay scale that resource at which persons were employed by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board was point three. [8143/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (18 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 557. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that were issued in 2011, 2012 and 2013; if all deportation orders were issued to the last known address of the person subject to an order; and if not, the number that were not issued to the last known address in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. [7727/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: That the taxpayer should not be saddled with the speculative gambling debts of private institutions goes without saying. How will this impact mortgage holders whose only crime was to borrow money to put a roof over their heads etc, in particular the 13,000 mortgage holders of the former Irish Nationwide?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: There is no point in hoping for the good will of vulture capitalists who roam the world picking up what they can. They will not hesitate to squeeze decent people by way of interest rate increases or, in the case of people in trouble, repossession, if it suits them. However, I will follow up this matter further next week with the Minister during Question Time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: How will Ireland be represented at the G20 this year? I presume it will be represented through the European Union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will taxation issues be a feature of the G20 discussions this time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The most recent controversy about Irish taxation of multinationals and the figures produced by Professor Stewart of TCD of an effective rate of 2.2% gives added urgency to the situation. Even if the Minister does not accept that or Mr. Coffey's estimate of 8%, there are serious anomalies and problems in this regard. In 2013, Apple had savings of €146 billion, Microsoft, €80...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: In practice, what does the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of a single resolution mechanism, a single bank resolution fund, etc., mean for the ordinary citizen of the EU and the affairs of financial institutions that become bankrupt or broken? How would this process make a difference for the 13,000 mortgage holders whom the Minister and IBRC's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the long delays in assessment and access in respect of speech and language therapy in Dublin 15; the measures he will take to resolve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6797/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 52. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to ensure that a child (details supplied below) in Dublin 15 will receive immediate access to speech and language therapy in view of the fact that the application was first made in 2011. [6798/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (12 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure the continued funding of Rape Crisis Network Ireland as scheduled for the end of March, in view of the essential specialist research and support it provides for rape crisis centres. [5327/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (12 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that funding will be made available for Rape Crisis Network Ireland, which provides rape crisis centres with vital specialist research and support and whose closure is imminent due to the fact that its current funding is scheduled to be terminated on 31 March 2014. [5328/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said he did not plan for any referendums for 2014. I suggest that there is a referendum the Government should hold this autumn and the Government would have widespread support for it. Water is a precious resource, crucial to human life in a most vital way, as it is to most forms of life. However, it is also a resource that is cherished by the majority of ordinary Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The constitutional referendum on same-sex marriage the Government has announced for 2015 has acquired new and perhaps more urgent dimensions following the recent controversy and outrageous decision of RTE to pay €85,000 to individuals who are opposed to same-sex marriage because of some mild enough remarks made on RTE about the individuals in question by the gay activist, Rory O'Neill....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to propose any referenda in 2014. [53722/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Data (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of home owners who have paid the 2014 property tax in full; and the number that have agreed payment arrangements with the Revenue Commissioners. [6538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Data (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of home owners who have their property tax bills deducted without their consent from their wages, social welfare payments or other income. [6539/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene in the dispute at a supermarket (details supplied) in County Limerick so the workers may secure all pay and redundancy payments and receive full assistance in gaining further employment. [6777/14]