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- Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: Deputy McNamara should not-----
- Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: For clarification, with whom is the Minister sharing time?
- Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: I thought the Labour Party had disappeared.
- Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: I would not be surprised if they were too ashamed to appear.
- Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: I move:That Dáil Éireann:on the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lock-out, salutes the titanic struggle of the working class of Dublin for workers' rights, trade union rights, and a decent and dignified life; notes:-- the brutal methods of the employers of Dublin, led by the then owner of Independent Newspapers William Martin Murphy, as they attempted to protect their profits by...
- Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: On this, the 100th anniversary of the great Dublin Lock-out of 1913, we salute the titanic struggles of the working class men and women of Dublin city and county against the barbarism inflicted on them, their families and communities through the agency of the ruthless capitalist forces of the day. An Irish capitalist class existed which saw no contradiction between on the one side Irish...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights Issues (13 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the mechanisms being put in place at EU level to ensure Syrians entering the European Union seeking asylum will be given proper consideration in view of the treatment of refugees on BBC's Newsnight programme on 6 June 2013. [28371/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (13 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update of the cold case file given to the Garda Commissioner on 11 March in relation to the Fr. Niall Molloy case and the promised report on the matter. [28370/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (13 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding for a residential assessment and placement with NUA Healthcare has been refused (details supplied) [28412/13]
- Other Questions: Water Meters Installation (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: Is it not incredible that weeks before the Minister's metering programme is due to start, he can provide no figures for the cost of the programme? I suggest the Minister, even at this late stage, carry out a cost-benefit analysis. He will find that if the investment were made in water conservation and rehabilitation of the network and so forth, it would be far more beneficial. Far more...
- Other Questions: Water Meters Installation (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: It is not.
- Other Questions: Water Meters Installation (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: No, they have gone up consistently.
- Other Questions: Water Meters Installation (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the schedule for the installation of water meters in the different local authority areas. [28077/13]
- Other Questions: Water Meters Installation (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has estimated the cost of fixing leakages that may be discovered in the course of the installation of water meters; and who will bear the cost of paying for the fixing of these leakages. [28078/13]
- Other Questions: Water Meters Installation (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: What is the anticipated cost of the water metering programme nationwide? A figure of hundreds of millions of euro has been mooted. I call on the Minister to agree that the drive for water meters at people's homes is a misapplication of those funds. It is incredible that, when 50% to 60% of water treated by taxpayers' funds is leaking into the grounds in many local authorities, the Minister...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (12 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Student Universal Support Ireland should consider where a student is ordinarily resident on 1 October prior to their first point of entry into third level education or at the start of the approved postgraduate course they are undertaking (details supplied). [28364/13]
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: That is nonsense.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach condemn the violence done by drones?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: Are the records of some of the leaders attending the G8 summit in Fermanagh of concern to the Taoiseach? President Putin routinely crushes the right to democratic peaceful protest in Russia. President Obama routinely sends pilotless drones, which have killed thousands of innocent civilians, into Pakistan. The economic policies of the likes of Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister Cameron...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)
Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the role he will play at the G8 Summit which will take place in Northern Ireland in June. [23968/13]