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

Joe Higgins: One should not be obliged to wait that long.

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

Joe Higgins: One hundred thousand families need housing.

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

Joe Higgins: The property tax will take it all back.

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

Joe Higgins: Of course the scandalous abuse of charities should be outed, but it should not hide the scandal whereby people with disabilities and vulnerable people should not have to depend on the charity of whoever happens to be able to throw some money in a bucket. I note that the Taoiseach did not comment on the return – it never really went away – of crony capitalism, with companies...

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

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is three years in office and if the Government survives a five-year term, then we are 60% of the way now. Therefore, the shape of what the Government promised three years ago should be evident to our people by now. One of the promises made was that this Government would be entirely different to the regime that preceded it in the matter of how public affairs were conducted,...

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

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government. [45915/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has estimated the potential drop out rate by apprentices from courses they have undertaken with FÁS/SOLAS arising from the introduction of fees for those courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2333/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have taken part in the JobBridge scheme in Fingal, South Dublin, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and Dublin City Council areas. [2766/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount she will invest in the Youth Guarantee in 2014 and 2015. [2767/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (21 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reveal the names of the consultants that Irish Water used in 2013; and if he will provide a breakdown of the fees each of them received. [2303/14]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Is the figure in the Revised Estimate for the total costs of the Moriarty tribunal?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: What is the likely magnitude of the additional costs?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: On what basis was the figure of €1.4 million included?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will they amount to €1 million or €2 million?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is not a satisfactory position.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach must be joking.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is funding half of the jihadists in the world.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: I might have started by bidding the Taoiseach a happy new year, but I just realised that, 16 days in, the new year feels very old already, what with taxpayers being gouged by consultants, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, knowing nothing about anything, and the Labour Party in hiding. If I were a cartoonist drawing a cliché of the old...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: I know, but the Taoiseach was able to come in-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has made political claims about his Administration and what he has spent his money on. It is our entitlement to respond. In his statement and long briefing document, all produced with taxpayers' funds, the exit from the bailout and the deal on the promissory notes is extolled at length but may I put it to him that the downside should have been included also. The Taoiseach...