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- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Minister to acknowledge that since the household tax is almost an austerity tax to bail out the speculators and bondholders, it is absolutely immoral for him to cut back on funds for services from central taxation that will affect the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people. Does the Minister not agree further that it is an outrage that county councils would threaten students with...
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to try to blackmail their parents into giving up their completely justified boycott against this tax?
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister should listen to Peter Bacon, who has ridiculed that idea. He rebuts it.
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Who will pay the property tax? Will it be someone from Mars?
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Apparently, a Cheann Comhairle, there are secret pots of gold under every house.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Fix the leaks in the State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It would be much better to do this than to waste money on meters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: We all pay for water through our taxes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: When we buy goods in shops we pay for the shopkeeper's water charges also.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Students do not own the houses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is disgraceful bullying.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made of remedial works to housing units in Belmayne development, Dublin, which were intended to ensure compliance with Fire Safety Building Regulations following the discovery of breaches of those regulations in April 2011; and if he will confirm that all housing units in Belmayne now comply with the Building...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Increment Payments (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the level of the aggregate reduction in the public sector pay bill if the pay relativities which applied across the public sector prior to the implementation of the Buckley Report recommentations, were restored, while holding the current rates of pay of middle income and clerical public servants constant and taking the...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government noting the statement in the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 information leaflet that there is no question of applying the EPA's 2009 code of practice to older on-site systems, if he will explain the way the requirements of the EU legislation in relation to quality of ground water are to be met. [38946/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government noting the Pyrite Panel report, his views on whether the stone fill being sold by quarries in counties Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Offaly for use under ground floor slabs to houses and extensions is fit for purpose and will not cause heave; and the test results he has available to support this conclusion. [38947/12]
- Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (19 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason widows and widowers are required to provide a sworn affidavit to support their claims of sole guardianship when applying for new passports for their children when this is not the case for parents whose spouses are still alive. [36550/12]
- Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: I move amendment No. 20: In page 13, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: "(2) Section 26(2)(b) of the Act of 1997 is amended by deleting the words "Trade Union".". The point of this amendment is that for the purposes of making political donations, a trade union should not be considered as a corporation in the same way, for example, as a major bank, a major multinational...
- Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: What about the other point made?
- Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Nà cheart Bille na Gaeltachta a bhrú trÃd an Dáil inniu. Molaim go leanfaidh an dÃospóireacht ar aghaidh go dtà an fómhar ionas gur féidir linn an reachtaÃocht a phlé nÃos faide. Chuir mé fáilte roimh an cinneadh a dhein an Rialtas an Bille seo a thógaint isteach. Tá an-chuid daoine dáirÃre sa Ghaeltacht, eagraÃochtaà Gaeltachta agus eagraÃochtaà Gaeilge go...
- Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Má tá aon dóchas gur féidir moill a chur ar bánú na Gaeltachta, atá ag tarlú i láthair na huaire, agus polasaithe a thabhairt chun cinn agus a chur i bhfeidhm ionas go mbeidh saol na Gaeltachta faoi bhláth arÃs, caithfear smaoineamh domhain a dhéanamh ar conas is féidir é sin a dhéanamh. Conas is féidir linn cumas labhartha na Gaeilge a fheabhsú ar fud na tÃre freisin?...