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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (27 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent political contacts with political leaders in Northern Ireland. [12519/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (27 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met the new United States Secretary of State, John Kerry. [12510/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: I suggest we leave the word "corruption" out of it. Will the Taoiseach agree that he entered government promising a revolution in how the State was governed? Really, we did not get a revolution but rather more of the same and a counter-revolution in many areas in economic and financial matters? In view of the fact that so few of the people who applied to be considered for membership of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach look for-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he has made any recent appointments to State boards. [12513/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: I would put it to the Taoiseach straight that it is time to stand down this IFSC Clearing House Group in its present manifestation and that it cannot be defended in view of the gross inequality vis-à-vis the rights of citizens and the bulk of taxpayers, who do not, in any sense, have such structured, high level and regular access to Government. It flies in the face of any concept of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Apart from representing the selfish interests of the financial services industry which comprises the main players in the world's financial markets, what benefits to society has the IFSC delivered for the people of Ireland in the past ten years? The Taoiseach has said the clearing house group has been meeting since 1987 when the IFSC was set up. Does he know whether, at any stage during the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: We paid them €60 billion already.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: They are paying for it already.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent contacts that he has had with the International Financial Services Centre Clearing House Group. [12511/13]

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is a bondholders' tax.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not look too happy yesterday with that big fellow in front of him. He was looking at his shirt pocket.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (26 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if discretion will be allowed with the suitability case for taxis specifically in the case of prohibiting tinted windows (details supplied) [14919/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Exemptions (21 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will, for the purposes of Section 10 (3) of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2013, prescribe a list of developments in the State, being developments each of which that Minister is satisfied is incomplete to a substantial extent; the way the criteria will be interpreted; in particular, the circumstance (d) listed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will instruct the Chief State Solicitor's Office to reply to a person (details supplied) regarding a property dispute as promised by his Department in a letter [14207/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the industrial dispute between a company (details supplied) in County Kerry and seven employees, members of SIPTU, whereby the employees are informed by the company that they are to be made redundant, the company refuses to engage with them, their union and the Labour Relations Commission over the terms of the redundancy and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Export Controls (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he has in place to ensure that components for weapons manufactured here do not get used in weapons manufactured in countries where EU arms exports bans apply, for example, in the case of components manufactured by a company (details supplied) in County Kerry which were found in an Iranian drone which landed in Sudan, both of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if decisions by the An Bord Pleanála Appeals Board are binding on county council and city council managers; if parties successfully taking cases to the An Bord Pleanála Appeals Board have any statutory recourse if they believe decisions made in their favour have not been enforced. [13744/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the Resilient Threat Management Conference on 6 March 2013 which took place under Ireland's EU presidency; if he will reconcile the participation of Irish Defence Forces personnel at such events with Ireland position of being a neutral country. [14205/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the conflict that has arisen between the parent of a child (details supplied) who resides in Laura Lynn's Children's Hospice and the hospice management over visitation rights; and if he will equire with the appropriate personnel in the Health Service Executive that they investigate the matter. [13746/13]