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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of additional revenue that will be raised for the Exchequer if the corporation tax rate here was raised by the same proportion, that is by 25%, as the increase to the Cypriot corporate tax rate in the original Cypriot bailout plan of 16 March 2013. [18152/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (17 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a refurbishment and building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [17589/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15 involving the removal of prefabricated classrooms and the provision of ten classrooms and sports hall. [17588/13]

Order of Business (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has not provided clarity. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform promised legislation implementing a 7% across the board cut in public sector workers' wages if the Croke Park II agreement was rejected. The Croke Park II proposals have gone down in flames because low and middle income workers in the public sector cannot take any more cuts, nor can they in the private...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Is the Government going to cut pay?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: What about the low-paid public sector constituents? Will the Government attempt to cut their pay?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Economic Management Council is obviously the most powerful Government sub-committee, comprising the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Does that sub-committee have a role in industrial relations policy? Was it the policy of the Economic Management Council that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform should...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes. It would decimate their income and is a critical part of their pay, despite the Government's propaganda about non-core pay not being touched. As a result of this rejection of the Croke Park II proposals by SIPTU and other public sector workers, will the Economic Management Council and the Government now recognise that austerity has run its course and is a disaster for workers and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub committees that have met this year and the number of times each has met. [2338/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent contacts between the Economic Management Council and the banks. [12516/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with any church organisations in his official capacity. [12662/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the decision to remove funding for the construction of classrooms and sports facilities at a college (details supplied) in Dublin 15 [17445/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will remove or alter the qualifying period for the back to education allowance to enable greater access to the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16817/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households broken down by local authority area that have currently registered for the household charge; the total number of households broken down by local authority area targeted by the Local Government Management Authority for registration for the household charge; if he will provide a breakdown of figures of...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (28 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Unfortunately, there is cold comfort here for the students of Castleknock community college and their parents, with "cold" being the appropriate word. Many students will continue to be forced to be educated in substandard prefab accommodation. This is not acceptable. The Minister of State's reply outlines what the project entails: ten new classrooms to replace the existing temporary...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (28 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: I am sorry the Minister for Education and Skills is not here because I want to call him to account for a gross breach of promise and remind him of his responsibility to the people of Castleknock. It came as a body blow to the parents, staff and students of Castleknock community college when they saw an answer to a parliamentary question from the Minister towards the end of last year saying...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Prison Committals (28 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with his Spanish counterpart the situation facing Basque prisoners in the Spanish State as has been raised by the Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee, specifically the denial of parole, inhumane treatment of terminally ill prisoners, the cancellation of visits; excessive use of solitary confinement and the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Prison Committals (28 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with his Spanish counterpart the situation facing Basque prisoners in the Spanish State as has been raised by the Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee, specifically the policy of dispersal and the resultant hardships on prisoners and relatives and the retroactive extension of sentences contrary to a ruling in...

European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste said the Government supported Cyprus in its hour of need. Would it not be true to say the situation was that the Government supported Cyprus as a scaffold supports an unfortunate about the hanged? That was the extent of the solidarity. Why did the Government, through the Minister for Finance, support the initial proposal to reach into the bank accounts of low and middle...

European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The crisis measures imposed on the Cypriot people relating to the banking situation on that island show that the words emanating from EU leaders at their summits are utterly redundant. In June 2012, we were promised seismic changes in the way banking and sovereign debt would be dealt with in the EU. Instead, the citizens of Europe have been treated to institutional dishonesty and mendacity...