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- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (19 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the projected cost, €10.7 million, of the EU Battlegroups is based on an estimate of 120 days if activated, the cost to the tax payer if the battlegroups exceed this period. [39634/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (19 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence the percentage of his Department's budget which has already been spent. [39635/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (19 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence the military equipment the EU Battlegroups will have. [39632/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (19 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of training the EU Battlegroups before they form. [39633/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (19 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the projected cost, €10.7 million, of the EU Battlegroups is based on an estimate of 120 days if activated, the cost to the tax payer if the battlegroups exceed this period. [39634/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (19 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence the percentage of his Department's budget which has already been spent. [39635/12]
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: If it is like the banking debt, it will go a bit further than that.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: There will be no seismic shift.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Has there been a secret statutory instrument to give county councils the right to threaten students seeking third level grants over whether their parents have paid the household tax? I ask this because the Minister for Education and Skills scandalously, and quite disgracefully, championed this bullying of students instead of championing the right of students to their education. Has the...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: There is no legal requirement.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: What has that do to with students?
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Some 50% of people have not paid the tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is the Taoiseach who is airy-fairy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: With regard to the banking debt and the European Union, I recall a movie from a long time ago called "The Secret Life of Words". Do these words have some secret meaning that I miss? The Taoiseach quoted them. He obtained a commitment in June to examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with a view of further improving the sustainability of the wealth performing adjustment...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is spinning more fairy tales.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: When in her post-summer press conference the German Chancellor stated that no changes were necessary to the Irish bailout austerity agenda, which, in case we forget, sees working people and the poor salvaging the financial market speculators in Europe, and that everything - the cuts, the crisis and the hundreds of thousands of people who are unemployed - was fine with Ireland, what did she...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: What sort of formal proposals?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: So you are not the one who said it was a vampire tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the European leaders with whom he has had discussions with since the summer recess. [38949/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he has submitted any proposals for the EU Summit taking place on the 18 to 19 October in Brussels; the issues he will prioritise; and if he has received an agenda. [38952/12]