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Other Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should just deal with the issue.

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she concerned is that a company (details supplied) has advertised for 28 positions through the JobBridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3589/14]

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: I wish to ask whether the Minister is concerned that the Advance Pitstop tyre company has advertised for 28 interns through her JobBridge scheme, which is the second time around for the company. Obviously, this is a displacement of proper work at decent wages and a gross abuse of the young unemployed and taxpayers.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider prohibiting the use of the JobBridge scheme for posts aimed at PhD holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3590/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by the Education Training Boards in the county of Dublin, city of Dublin, Limerick and Clare and Ccty of Cork for deciding the starting incremental point of a resource person on the resource person's salary scale. [3800/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly appointed resource persons that were employed in Youthreach centres of education since 2005 to date in 2014 by the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board; the number of newly appointed resource persons during this period who started on point one of the resource persons incremental scale; the number of newly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly appointed resource persons that were employed in youthreach centres of education since 2005 to date in 2014 by the City of Cork Education and Training Board; the number of newly appointed resource persons during this period who started on point one of the resource persons incremental scale; the number of newly appointed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on the reasons Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology is not participating in the current higher education restructuring discussions with Tallaght and Blanchardstown institutes of technology and DIT; his views on the future of Dun Laoghaire institute in the overall scheme of higher education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will guarantee that Dun Laoghaire institute will not be privatised; his views on private funding interests for the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. [3922/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the staff pension fund in Dun Laoghaire Institute and a guarantee that the staff pension fund is safe. [3923/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (28 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans in respect of youth unemployment following the British Irish Council. [53720/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Investigations (23 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish an inquiry into the events surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3274/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Book Rental Scheme (22 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision not to allow schools that have already initiated a rental book scheme to gain access to the book rental grant, especially as far as newly established schools are concerned, such as a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3009/14]

European Council: Statements (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: How does the Minister of State reconcile what we have outlined? There is huge investment in armaments, weapons of mass destruction and the intensification of militarisation. The Taoiseach attended and participated in such meetings while, supposedly, proclaiming this to be a neutral state. What is meant by increased synergies between the Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP, and...

European Council: Statements (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Any reading of the communiqué that followed the meeting of the Prime Ministers of the European Council and other Heads of State on 19 and 20 December 2013 indicates that it resembled in large part a meeting of militarists and armament industry executives. It is quite extraordinary that half of the communiqué is about the intensification of militarisation in the European Union and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The First World War was a crime of appalling proportions which inflicted hell on earth by the ruling classes of both Germany and Britain in pursuit of greater access to markets and greed for each other's colonies. Millions of victims were working class youth in uniform and others. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is not appropriate that he should participate uncritically with modern day...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: What about the bondholders and European financiers?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he has recently met representatives of the Northern Ireland Executive. [45916/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent North-South meeting in Armagh. [53719/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the Messines and the Menin Gate in December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53721/13]