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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the rent supplement scheme caps in view of an increasing number of tenants being forced out of their homes and localities due to the lower limits imposed since the beginning of the year. [44500/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (16 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current levels of payment for the household charge by local authority area. [44231/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (16 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current payment levels of the household charge nationally; the figures by county; the number of households liable in each county; and the percentage of registration in each county and nationally. [44588/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (11 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocated number of teachers currently in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will acknowledge that two teachers are necessary for this school. [43966/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: A few years ago before the cabal of speculators and parasites crashed the economy and put the burden on everybody else, there were serious allegations regarding Quinn Insurance, which emanated from a whistleblower who had left the company, about unorthodox and unacceptable methods of pressurising claimants to settle on terms that were favourable to the company. There were allegations, for...

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: When will there be a statement in the Dáil on the location and time cale for the children's hospital? Has the Cabinet signed off on that?

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Come off it. The Taoiseach is wasting our time.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: And speculators.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on reports that he intends to seek a further 10,000 redundancies by 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43361/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on any recent discussions he has had with the social partners. [43029/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the ongoing difficulty that workers are having in securing their holiday entitlements from the administrator (details supplied) if she will intervene and resolve the issue as a matter of urgency. [43661/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources noting Irelands potential deliverable renewable energy resource identified by Sustainable Energy Ireland and referred to again by the private sector Irish Wind Energy Association in the context of the potential for the creation of 30,000 jobs in this sector, his views on whether this resource did not require prospecting or...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (10 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the basis for the development of our renewable energy resource has been funded by the Irish State through the Sustainable Energy Ireland, the Department of the Marine, the Marine Institute, the HMRC in UCC and the ESB; his views on whether his Departments present plans for the development of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is a recent convert to the abolition of the Seanad. Some of us have expressed the view for decades that it is thoroughly undemocratic and a rotten elitist borough which should go. Is the Taoiseach aware of the suspicion that nothing tangible has been done in this regard in a year and a half because he is under pressure from many members of his own party and of the Labour Party...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach aware of that suspicion and can he confirm it?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is referring to the wrong party. He should withdraw that remark.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I assure the Taoiseach there is no party of break-up. Tá an Páirtí Sóisialach faoi lán seoil. Let the Taoiseach not worry.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: A little bit of ice cracking off the edge does not sink the iceberg. The other issue relates to representation. Assuming the Government is to go ahead with the constitutional convention, how will proper representation on it be guaranteed? Apart from people who give submissions, how will the members be representative of society? Deputy Martin's question related to the Gay and Lesbian...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: What on earth does the Taoiseach need a constitutional convention to deal with reducing the age of voting to 17 and reducing the term of the Presidency to five years? I suggest the discussion on both issues would take one hour each. The Taoiseach should just do it. The age should be reduced to 17 or even 16 since young people are, unfortunately, increasingly victims of the policies of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The issue is easily dealt with. Of course the term of the Presidency should be five years. Is it possible that the convention could examine the Presidency more fundamentally? For example, one could ask whether we need a Presidency, which is a bauble, a luxury that is ill-afforded. The mechanism for the selection of a President is undemocratically rigged to suit the establishment political...