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Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: It should have been fully published two weeks ago to inform and focus the debate that has been raging in this country in that time. With regard to the timescale for introduction of the legislation, I listened to what the Taoiseach said about the Joint Committee on Health and Children and the expeditious nature of its hearings. What is the subsequent timeline for the introduction of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: In the context of the alleged intention at a previous summit that there should be a breaking of the link between banking and sovereign debt, does the Taoiseach agree that this can only have meaning for the Irish people if the €64 billion of taxpayers' funds that was used to bail out the banks and the bondholders is paid back to the Irish people? Does he also agree that the European...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: It would seem that she is quite disconnected from the reality of the suffering of the Irish people as a result of her austerity agenda. What did the Taoiseach mean in June when he referred to a "seismic shift" with regard to debt? An earth tremor or a tidal wave often follows a seismic shift but we have not seen any waves or tremors that put any different or better configuration on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: I do not see any boats rising.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU Summit on the 18 and 19 October [47573/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his phone conversation with Chancellor Merkel on 21 October 2012. [47574/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to meet President Hollande. [47575/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he requested clarification at the EU Summit of 29 June of the meaning of the EU communique in relation to the statement that the Eurogroup will examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with the view of further improving the sustainability of the well-performing adjustment programme. [47576/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent contact with EU leaders. [49716/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to prioritise at the European Summit in Brussels on 22 November 2012. [49717/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the latest developments within the Pyrite Resolution Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52460/12]

Supreme Court Ruling in the X Case: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: Has the Minister of State seen it?

Supreme Court Ruling in the X Case: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is critical that legislation is introduced immediately to provide for the termination of a pregnancy which threatens the life of a woman. That this has not happened in the 20 years since the Supreme Court ruled that it was permissible under the Constitution is testament to the cowardly prevarication of the political establishment in this State. However, such legislation, which should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: The 2008 OECD report on the Irish public sector was complimentary and stated it compared very well with the public sectors of wealthier European countries. The Minister referred to duplication and achieving other efficiencies. Why does he not achieve this by discussion inside the public service with the involvement of public sector workers? As he is well aware, many of the most recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to outsource various public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51869/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: What is this except a proposal for wholesale destruction of sections of the public sector and wholesale privatisation? The Government has already killed off tens of thousands of jobs in the public sector and plans to kill tens of thousands more. At the same time it is proposing to privatise services from the same public service it is annihilating. What is this except an agenda to secure...

Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: Regarding debates promised in the Dáil, I refer to the expert group report to examine the A, B and C v. Ireland judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. The Government amendment to the Sinn Féin Private Members' motion calls for support for the decision by the Minister for Health to bring the report to Government on Tuesday, 27 November and his recommendation that it be then...

Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: However, the publication will be next Tuesday, 27 November.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: It has been a full week since the Minister for Health received the report from the expert group on the X case situation and the Taoiseach promised a debate in this Chamber. Why has the report not been published thus far? Given there will be a three-hour debate in the Dáil this week on this issue and the related issue of the sad implications of the Savita Halappanavar tragedy-----

Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- will the Government publish that report forthwith to help to inform the debate, rather than debating in a vacuum? The Government is treating this expert report like the third secret of Fatima.