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European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The summit of European Union leaders of 22 May 2013 did absolutely nothing of substance to address the really serious economic crisis in many countries within the European Union. Against a background of 26 million people unemployed, nothing short of emergency measures is called for. Such measures, were they to be effective, would be obliged to take into account that capitalism, as an...

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes, it is.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes. I wish to share time with Deputies Finian McGrath, Richard Boyd Barrett, Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Seamus Healy and Shane Ross.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013 is a falsely named piece of legislation through and through. The public interest suggests the well-being of a majority in society and society in general. A regime of cuts to the income of low and middle-income workers and a worsening of their conditions is not in the public interest or in the interest of society. It damages...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The substance is true.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: It facilitates tax evasion by them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach in any way uneasy, to say the least, when the European Council meeting moved on to a discussion on taxation? I note from the communiqué issued after the summit that measures to fight tax evasion, fraud, etc., were discussed "in order to protect revenues and ensure public confidence in the fairness and effectiveness of tax systems." Leaving aside the issue of fraud for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the next EU Council meeting is taking place; and if he will outline the key issues likely to be taken. [23970/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will immediately be made available for the refurbishment, redevelopment and extension of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [25463/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is at tender stage in time to qualify for the stimulus package as announced in 2012. [25462/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse his decision to allocate resource hours under the July Provision to siblings based on the school grouping principle rather than to each child in their own right; if he will outline the assistance he will give to parents unable to find tutors that will work alone with a number of children with a severe or profound learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make changes to circular 02/05 to add Down syndrome to the list of complex low incidence disorders to enable adequate resource hours to children. [25125/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the varying levels of fees being charged by different creches to parents with children in the community childcare subvention programme; the steps she will take to ensure that charges are not a barrier to parents with low incomes availing of childcare under this programme; and if she will make a...

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the negotiations between the Labour Relations Commission and the public service unions that have taken place since the rejection of the Croke Park II proposals. [24670/13]

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The financial emergency measures in the public interest will enshrine these pay cut proposals from the Government. Can I put it to the Minister that it is misnamed legislation? The public interest suggests the majority interest of ordinary people but this is in the interest of continuing the bailout of bankers and bondholders at the expense of public sector workers and continuing the flow...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: In the Minister's discussions with the troika on the sale of State assets, did the sale of Coillte feature? What was the outcome of the exchange? What is the attitude of the troika? If the Minister will not tell us what the report on Coillte states before it is presented to the Government, could he state whether his thinking has moved on over recent months in response to the very strong...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's intended schedule for the sale of State owned assets. [24938/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: I thought we had got a new recruit from an unlikely quarter, a Cheann Comhairle. The sale of any key infrastructure to transnational corporations on foot of the diktats of the troika to bail out bondholders and bankers is shameful. However, I will concentrate on Coillte and the proposed sale of forestry harvesting rights. The Minister stated he has got the report. Will he share with us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The point is that the law in this country and the governing ethos of this and previous Governments facilitate giant corporations such as Apple to be registered in such a way that they can play the game internationally and hide away tens of billions of euro which has been earned God knows where. According to agencies that deal with the poorest people on earth, whether in Africa, Asia or Latin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: There is a new triangle consisting of Bermuda, Ireland and Amsterdam.