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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: European Employment Service (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 573. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of letters drawing the attention of recipients of unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance to job vacancies abroad issued by her Department; and the criteria upon which it is decided who should be sent such information. [46959/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 678. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person purchases a property where the prior owner was late registering for the septic tank charge, it jeopardises the new owners eligibility for the grant for remediation work. [46328/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: This has been a terrible week for social protection in Ireland. This Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, like the budget, makes swingeing economic attacks on the elderly with its callous snatch back of tens of thousands of medical cards, on the young with the savage cuts to their jobseekers' allowances and on pregnant women with the callous cut to maternity benefits, among many other attacks....

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is a mandate for injustice against social minorities. The scandal of the Roma children removed from their homes occurred because of the stereotyping that is done by the establishment in this society. This Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition, and the Minister, Deputy Burton, have consistently reinforced another bigoted, ignorant and cynical stereotype in regard to social welfare recipients,...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Baroness Burton's prescription for the young unemployed in Ireland who are denied a job in the scorched earth of the austerity ridden economy -----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: ----- is to work for €50 per week for employers who are looking for free labour at the taxpayer's expense.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The other alternative is that the young in their tens of thousands should spread their wings on every tide to far flung places across the earth. It is not so much a case of exporting them like cattle, as de Valera said - which was due to his own obscurantist economic policies - as of exporting our youth by the plane load like sophisticated human computer chips carrying with them huge...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: A bigoted busybody on Facebook.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Can we not pose questions to the Minister now?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (23 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific fire safety building regulations which were not complied with in the case of Priory Hall; if he will confirm that such breaches of fire safety building regulations do not exist in other housing estates constructed during the building boom in particular in the nearby Belmayne Estate. [44771/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (23 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the timeframe for the proposed referendum to reduce the voting age to 16. [35073/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: No, I did not give that impression.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Do not be ridiculous.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: We want more of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: I was speaking about scambridge.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: I recognise that Kerry's football clubs are decimated by emigration.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that the level of Government spin on so-called economic recovery and jobs over the past two months has reached a scale that is truly Orwellian and bears no relation to the reality of people's lives in this State or outside it who have been driven out by economic crisis. Will the Taoiseach accept that the figure of 400,000 people on the live register who are unemployed or...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Do not start that again-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: IBEC. The Taoiseach should go out and drive himself for a week-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is a pathetic bit of bluster. The reality is that young people are being driven out of this country at a rate of 50,000 or 60,000 a year by the Government's failure to bring in real measures and real investment, such as a wealth tax which would yield €1 billion or €2 billion to invest in real jobs, as opposed to the Mickey Mouse stuff the Government is doing as it...