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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a company (details supplied) in County Galway are operating with a current proper licence for fish farming in Cill Chiaráin harbour, Connemara, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53948/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 131. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of tenants of local authorities currently residing in one room bedsits which have been in violation of the Housing Regulations of 2008 since 1 February 2013; and the amount of funds being allocated to the renovation of these properties. [53400/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 132. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of enforcement orders intended to achieve compliance with the building regulations fire safety issued by fire safety authorities against non-compliant builders and developers since he became Minister. [53419/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 133. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he proposes to adopt to recover the €10,000,000 allocated in the capital budget for remedial works to houses suffering major damage caused by pyrite from the quarry and construction industry and the HomeBond organisation. [53420/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm if the HomeBond technical staff that inspected homes in the Dublin West constituency (details supplied) and incorrectly found that structural damage was not due to pyrite will not be involved in auditing building condition assessments under IS398-1. [53421/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent Amnesty International report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza that outlines the impact of the Israeli blockade on the health, sanitation and power supply of the people of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53269/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations that he has made to the Israeli authorities regarding the blockade on Gaza. [53270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations that he has made to the Egyptian authorities regarding the closing of crossings from Egypt to Gaza. [53271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (11 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the Israeli blockade of Gaza amounts to collective punishment. [53272/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Would the Taoiseach accept that when he and his Ministers as an institution meet the Church as an institution, it is like a meeting of two relics of an evolutionary process which halted at a certain stage, while the evolutionary process in ideas and outlook continued with the people that the Taoiseach is supposed to represent, which leaves him and the Church, in matters that they discuss,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why will the Government not legislate for fatal foetal abnormalities?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: I would prefer to ask further supplementary questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach detail to the Dáil the discussions and contacts he, or people representing him, had with the Catholic Church, in particular, in the run-up to the passing of the Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Bill 2013? Was the strong opposition to that Bill the reason he couched it in the narrowest possible terms, really catering for a very exceptional situation where the life...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why not the others?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent meetings he has held with religious leaders. [40868/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 488. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be given access to a neural psychologist, behavioural therapist and occupational therapist in the public health system and receive necessary treatment [52684/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (4 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly appointed resource persons employed in Youthreach Centres of Education since 2005 to date by the City of Dublin ETB; the number of these newly appointed resource persons during this period started on point 1 of the resource persons incremental scale; the number of newly appointed resource persons during this period that...

Bond Repayments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is the mildest of motions. It merely asks the Government to talk to the European Central Bank, to negate the €28 billion debt with which that bank in connivance with two treacherous governments, this and the previous one, saddled the Irish people in order to bail out bankers and bondholders from the fruit of their greed-driven speculation in Irish property. Yet even this mild...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Will the EU offer him sanctuary?