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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 376. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way the local property tax will be set by local authorities; if it will be a function of the manager to propose a rate in the annual budget; and what power councillors will have. [6369/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 390. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the public funds that have been earmarked for the installation of household water meters. [6542/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 391. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the public funds that have been earmarked for the institution of Uisce Éireann excluding the installation of household water meters programme. [6543/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (11 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a case of abduction of a child (details supplied); if he considers that the State has a responsibility to ensure that the mother's right to primary care of her child is upheld in view of the fact that the flight risk was communicated to the social worker in advance of the abduction; and the actions he or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (6 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the deportation order for a person (details supplied) who supplied information to Irish Nationalisation and Immigration Service on 16 July 2013 that indicated they were not in the State a number of years prior to a deportation order being issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5910/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (6 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the process of verification of deportation orders prior to them being issued; the process in place for revoking orders should information be supplied that indicates there was an error made in issuing an order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5911/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (6 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that were revoked by him in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; if he will provide information on the number of these that were due to deportation orders being issued to persons already outside the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5912/14]

Northern Ireland: Statements (5 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Even a cursory glance at the daily newspapers in the North bears out that sectarianism is alive and present and intruding negatively on the everyday lives of ordinary people across communities. Sectarian actions and statements regularly emanate not only from minorities in both Protestant and Catholic communities but also from politicians and political parties on both sides of the divide....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The profound link between the supposed democratic institutions of the Irish State, which are being discussed here in the Dáil today, and institutions such as the European Central Bank is that the Government, at the beginning of this Administration, claimed to be a champion of democracy and promised a democratic revolution. Is that not true? On the other hand, is it not true that this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----and allowed the dictatorship of the European Central Bank to decide that our people would be obliged to carry the massive burden of the bondholders? Might the Taoiseach also not have-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Well, it does----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Might the Taoiseach not as well be the Prime Minister in Saudi Arabia, where the King gives the order and then the Parliament jumps? What is the difference?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Yes, for 40 years, including when the Taoiseach was appointing his pals to it 30 years ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Government has a majority in the Seanad. Why does it not do this?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Who is blocking all of this?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: What mysterious force is stopping the Taoiseach from doing this?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: I suppose the Taoiseach would agree that his life would be much simpler if he could do things along the lines of his newly acquired Saudi Arabian friends – just threaten to cut off people’s heads if they do not agree with the governing party. He would then have no problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that he should have carried the referendum to abolish the Seanad with a landslide vote, considering how totally undemocratic is the manner of its appointment, but that he lost it because the people did not trust him or the Labour Party, mainly because of all their broken promises? Coming to the House with one proposal, namely, to extend the franchise to graduates in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he intends to propose reforms to Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50126/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (4 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: Billions has been paid that the people never owed. Is it any wonder that the Minister is short?