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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Applications (20 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of claims under the Equal Status Acts 2000 - 2008, made since January 2009 against his Department or the Health Service Executive, arising from the application of an upper age limit in the case of the mobility allowance, and which were referred to the Director of the Equality Tribunal; the number of such claims which have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Accident Investigations (14 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: I take it the Attorney General would be prepared to accept a submission from the family of Cadet Jevens. I shall so advise them; that would be normal. I have to ask that, in the reopening of this court of inquiry, the family of Cadet Jevens be represented, and the family of Captain Furniss should they wish. It is vital that the families would have the opportunity of being represented to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Accident Investigations (14 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will order the reopening of the military enquiry covering the crash of an Air Corps Pilatus PC-9 aircraft in County Galway on 12 October 2009 resulting in two fatalities and the concerns raised by the parents of one of the Air Corps personnel killed (details supplied) regarding the conduct of the investigation. [13525/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Accident Investigations (14 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: On 12 October 2009, as the result of a crash on an Air Corps training flight, Cadet David Jevens tragically died, as did Captain Derek Furniss. In the question I tabled I asked that the court of inquiry's investigation be reopened. The Minister of State indicated that the Attorney General has been asked to provide advice, and I welcome that in so far as it goes. However, much more needs to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Accident Investigations (14 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The final reason is the fact that witnesses were given copies of the questions to be asked a long time before the court of inquiry sat. They presented written statements, in respect of which they were not cross-examined, and which in some cases differed substantially from the evidence of the air accident investigation unit and of the coroner. No attempt was made to reconcile this. I put it...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Only developers and speculators get discounts.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health the progress made of plans for medical cards for the chronically ill [13338/13]

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Central Bank and the Secretary General of the Department of Finance in turn have given rise to major concern among many people with distressed mortgages. Essentially, they have been urging that people should be turfed out of their homes by the banks in terms that-----

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: -----are full of cruelty and cold-bloodedness. It is one of the most traumatic things that can happen to somebody.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has responded to me already and the Government has said, in essence, that it will bring in legislation to facilitate that. Is that still the Taoiseach's intention? What kind of legislation will be brought forward? Will it be simply to close the loophole from the High Court case, which prohibited evictions, or will it bring in legislation which is needed to protect people's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why did the Taoiseach not ask Prime Minister Cameron about her?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why did the Taoiseach not raise the Marian Price case, on a humanitarian basis, with Prime Minister Cameron? It would take 30 seconds to do so. When he visits the United States, will the Taoiseach deal with these issues in a concrete fashion? One of his predecessors, Bertie Ahern, informed us that he constantly raised matters with the President of the United States and others when he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is not nonsense. Google paid €3 million on a sum of €9 billion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: During his visit to the United States will the Taoiseach raise with the Secretary of State and President Obama the ongoing appalling oppression of Palestinian people in Israeli prisons, in particular, the case of the 30 year old Palestinian, Arafat Jaradat, who died on 25 February having been in an interrogation centre of the Shin Bet, the secret police of Israel, for five days? The autopsy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her recent visit to Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2339/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will visit the United States in March; and if so, his agenda for the visit. [12512/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (7 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a request for a meeting from the parents of Tyrrelstown Educate Together National School to discuss the decision to award patronage to a Catholic trust for the new secondary school for Tyrrelstown, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15. [11799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (7 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a decision made in his Department to give patronage of a new secondary school for Tyrrelstown, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15 to the Catholic Le Chéile trust, in the most religiously diverse and multicultural area in the entire country; and if so, if he will recognise that the decision must now be reviewed as it would...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Tá sé ráite le seachtain anuas i cuid mhaith de na meáin cumarsáide go bhfuil an Rialtas chun reachtaíocht a thabhairt chun cinn chun cumhacht níos leithne a thabhairt do na bainc agus institiúdí morgáistí tithe a thógaint ó teaghlaigh atá i dtrioblóid le aisíoc morgaístí. Mar is eol don Taoiseach,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Disputes (6 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the industrial dispute at St James Hospital, Dublin, concerning the suspension of a number of directly employed electricians over a health and safety matter which is ongoing despite the Health and Safety Authority upholding the stand of the workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11739/13]