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Topical Issue Debate: Penalty Points System (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The problem is that there is a huge contradiction between the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the report of the Garda into the penalty points issue. The Comptroller and Auditor General found 600 repeat offenders with three or four terminations; the Garda report found a few. The Comptroller and Auditor General found 3,000 statute-barred points cases; there was no mention of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: I have a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: I wish to ask a very brief supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: If symphysiotomy survivors had been able, over the past 25 years, to have a monthly meeting with the Secretary General of the Taoiseach's Department or the Secretary General of the Department of Health and other powerful institutions of this State, they would not have been still trying to get justice up until very recently for the tragedy they endured and the injustice that was done.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Does that not make the point, loud and clear? On the question of Priory Hall, the point I made in that regard was also about access, which the Taoiseach deliberately chose to try to avoid.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach think, given what was going on during the bubble, that there is only one Priory Hall in this State?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Unfortunately, there are very many. What does that mean? It means that people are living in potential fire traps all over this country. They do not know it and the Taoiseach does not know it. He could do an enormous favour to them, in the context of avoiding a tragedy in the future, by having a national audit of fire safety in every one of the major apartment complexes that were...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is as adept as his second last predecessor at muddying the waters and losing the essential in a ball of cotton wool when he tries to justify the unjustifiable. To equate the IFSC Clearing House Group and its influence with a Deputy raising in the House an issue pertaining to some constituent or vulnerable group in society is derisory. Any reading of the minutes of the IFSC...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he intends to reform the way the IFSC Clearing House Group operates. [40865/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 148. To ask the Taoiseach the number of workers here subjected to a regime of zero hour contracts by their employers and the way the latest available figures compare to previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40976/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 311. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of cases that have been taken by workers or their unions to the Rights Commissioner, Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Labour Court in 2011 and 2012; the timeframe and the average waiting time to have cases heard in each of these bodies. [40974/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the findings that are made in favour of employees by the Rights Commissioner, Employment Appeals Tribunal and Labour Court in 2011 and 2012; the number of times these outcomes have not been honoured by the employers; the number of times these instances have been referred to the National Employment Rights Authority for enforcement;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (1 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 580. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that he has previously stated that the Health Service Executive has confirmed that student medical scientists on placement must be paid the monthly training allowance, the reason third-year biomedical science students in DIT have still not been paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40483/13]

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: The words "Labour Party" and "left" should not be used in the same sentence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: Could we be sent the figure on the quantum of negative equity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: May I pose a final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: If the Governor does not have to hand the relevant figures, he might forward them in writing to the joint committee. Does he have an estimate of the quantum of negative equity in the case of owner-occupier mortgages for the four main banks? Second, does he have an estimate of the Exchequer payments this year in interest on the national debt? How much of that is accounted for by funds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: They come in here and resolutely say there will not be debt forgiveness, as they call it. I do not call it that. The Governor, Professor Honohan, was prepared to underwrite a policy where the billionaire bondholders were bailed out on the backs of the Irish working class people, but he will not contemplate such relief for those who were their victims. The national debt is about 120% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: With regard to the Anglo Irish Bank tapes, Professor Honohan was quoted in a German newspaper a few months ago as saying that it seemed that the Anglo bankers were deliberately misrepresenting the position of the bank, with a view to accessing financial support. Was it after that the professor went and looked to see in detail what these characters said in subsequent meetings with the Central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Joe Higgins: So is it that it was macho, juvenile bluffing by these guys talking among themselves?