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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (4 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extra funding she will make available to women and children refuges and advocate groups on behalf of abused children. [32357/13]

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reassure parents and teachers there will be no cuts to other education services following his announcement not to implement his planned cuts to resource hours. [32241/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a reversal of all the cuts to special needs assistants and resource hours that have been implemented by his Government. [32240/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (3 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his meeting with Down Syndrome Ireland on 25 June 2013; if he will provide the resource hours to children with Down syndrome as requested by Down Syndrome Ireland. [32536/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the timescale for the referendum on the abolition of Seanad Éireann. [27555/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance following the release of recordings of senior Anglo-Irish Bank executives, his views on the apparent abuse of the bank guarantee scheme by Anglo-Irish Bank to secure deposits from other institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31895/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance following the release of recordings of senior Anglo Irish Bank executives, his views on the apparent deception by Anglo Irish Bank on the level of recapitalisation required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31894/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 146. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Boston; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31783/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 147. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the various Cabinet subcommittees have met since the last recess. [31784/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 148. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with other heads of State during the last EU Council. [31785/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: International Summits (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 149. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the cost to his Department of the G8 Summit in County Fermanagh. [31786/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Jul 2013)

Joe Higgins: 660. To ask the Minister for Health when the psychiatric unit of Beaumont Hospital will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31705/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 makes the very narrowest possible provision for termination of pregnancies in Ireland and only in extreme cases where the woman's life is in very grave danger. In drafting this legislation, the preservation of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party took precedence in the minds of many members of the Cabinet over the real needs of women in crisis...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach never said anything about it at the time.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why can any citizen not stand?

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: There was silence on that side.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: I support the amendment but that is not to say I support the idea that we need ten Dáil Deputies, let alone 14, for a citizen to be qualified to stand for the Presidency. I have been calling for the abolition of the Seanad for more decades than the Taoiseach is in the Dáil, which is a very long time, but I abstained on Second Stage of this Bill to make a protest with regard to...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: If my memory serves me correctly, when I was in the Dáil previously, Fine Gael moved a Private Members' Bill proposing that 20,000 signatures of electors would be a qualification for standing for the Presidency. Yet, now that Fine Gael is in government, there is no proposal whatsoever to broaden this out. I support the abolition of the Seanad and I will vote for that in the final vote...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Unfortunately, what is a progressive move in getting rid of an elitist institution, which most of our people would agree with, in my view, is tainted because of the nature and policies of the Government that is moving it. It is quite possible that people will take the opportunity to give the Government a kicking. Indeed, I will have to make it very clear in the course of any campaign that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when he will meet with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. [27358/13]