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- Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It relates to the workings of Government policy.
- Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: With respect, I have sat here since 3.40 p.m.
- Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The other Deputies are playing a game with the Ceann Comhairle. I could put down ten questions along the same lines, but I do not want to waste his time.
- Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The other Deputies asked the same question in ten different ways.
- Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Anybody could do that.
- Constitutional Convention (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 34: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent developments with the establishment of the Constitutional Convention. [25365/12]
- European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am sharing time with Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The meeting of European Union leaders on Thursday and Friday will be the 20th meeting since the eurozone crises started in earnest in Greece in early 2010. Since then, the political and economic ruling classes within the European Union have floundered in the face of a catastrophic crisis of their system. The abject failure of the political...
- Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet Committee meetings he has attended since Easter. [25364/12]
- Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will explain the continued giving of anti-malaria drug, Lariam, to soldiers in the Defence Forces in view of the fact that the US army has discontinued its use and the numerous cases of neuropsychiatric side-effects including incidences of suicide. [29923/12]
- Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will commit to carrying out a study to compare the incidences of suicide amongst Irish soldiers who were prescribed Lariam as opposed to those soldiers that have not received Lariam. [29924/12]
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will confirm that those members of the Defence Forces who suffer from contraindications to the drug Lariam have never been and are not prescribed that drug within the Defence Forces. [29890/12]
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will explain the continued prescribing of Lariam to the Defence Forces in view of the major neuropsychiatric side-effects from Lariam that have been detailed, including the risk of suicide; his views on whether its prescription to members of the Defence Forces deployed to areas with malaria risk should be discontinued. [29891/12]
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Is it the Government's intention to introduce a property tax Bill in 2012 and to move on from the household tax, which is an unjust imposition on people to bail out bankers etc.? Is it the Government's policy that a property tax will be introduced which would require a new Bill, or primary legislation?
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I would like clarification on the time. Does that mean such a Bill would not be introduced and enacted until the first months of 2013? How would that relate to the implementation of such a measure?
- European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Order of Business seems to have finished earlier than usual. Perhaps some spokespersons were caught short, although I am not too sure. It might have been an idea to suspend the sitting for five minutes as a consequence.
- European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I repeat my outright opposition to the Bill which I opposed on the earlier Stages. It is clear that it represents a continuation of the general policy of the European Union and the European Central Bank to offload the consequences of the crisis within the European financial markets onto the shoulders of working and poor people throughout the Union. That policy which has been most notably...
- Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Could we have a copy of the Minister of State's speech?
- Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: They are not to hand.