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Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 177: To ask the Taoiseach if his comments on 15 April 2012 in relation to householders paying for their water meters had been agreed beforehand with the Minister for the Environment. [19945/12]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised any specific human rights issues on his recent visit to China; and with whom did he raise them. [19944/12]

Written Answers — Trade Agreements: Trade Agreements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if just wages and conditions for Chinese workers was discussed as part of any trade agreement signed with the Chinese Government. [19943/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Vice President of China during his recent visit to Ireland. [9630/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the question of human rights activists being persecuted in China with the Chinese Vice President when he met him. [9631/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the question of workers' rights in China with the Chinese Vice President when he met him. [9632/12]

Private Members' Business. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputies Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and Clare Daly.

Private Members' Business. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I commend Deputies Clare Daly and Joan Collins of the United Left Alliance, as well as Independent Deputy Mick Wallace, on bringing forward this Bill, the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012. By doing so they have insisted that a real debate would take place in Dáil Éireann on the critical needs of women in Ireland whose lives...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business. After the incredible plethora of different versions over recent days from different Ministers of what new raft of punitive local taxes, between home taxes and water taxes, they want to pile on the already hard-pressed people of this State, we need clarification. We need it because the Tánaiste and Leader of the Labour Party again,...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Government must come before the House to explain to us the rationale for these situations. The Tánaiste should also explain why one year ago it was fine to publish massively expensive adverts in newspapers with the slogan: "Look what Fine Gael have in store for you! €238 per annum water tax. Fine Gael - every little hurts." Apparently it does not hurt if the Labour Party now has...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I found it over Easter in an old song, over 100 years old, by Percy French, and appropriately it is called "Phil the Fluter's Ball". Phil the fluter, instead of Phil the Minister, did not go around intimidating his neighbours. He invited them into his house to play the flute and fiddle for them and then passed the cap around. The Government might be better off asking Deputy Healy-Rae to...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will have a better chance of catching the hare in the corn than he will of breaking the boycott of ordinary, decent people of this new raft of taxes. We need a debate today and tomorrow and the Government should accede to that because it is terrifying decent people with the extent of the burdens it is trying to impose.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis for having three differing rates of VAT on the internment of ashes 23%, cremation plots 13.5% and burial plots 0%; if he will consider revising the rates charged on the internment of ashes and cremation plots and bring them in line with the zero rate of burial plots. [19196/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 859: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on advertising and on administration of the new household tax. [18557/12]

Written Answers — Primary Care Strategy: Primary Care Strategy (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1269: To ask the Minister for Health if direct Exchequer funding will be made available for the provision of a primary healthcare centre for Corduff Dublin 15 in view of the previous commitment by the Health Service Executive to revert to the capital programme in the absence of a successful public private partnership application [18322/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1301: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of savings that have been achieved by increasing the price from €2 per week to €4.50 per day on meals-on-wheels in the Dublin 15 area; if any provisions has been made to offer assistance to those who would have difficulty affording the service [18558/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1433: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, the pension scheme for Dublin Airport Authority workers, has not been frozen in view of the uncertainty surrounding that scheme. [19199/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1434: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin Airport Authority workers are being forced to pay pension contributions into a scheme that is in severe financial difficulty and may not pay out any of the money they have put into it because of what appears to be poor investment strategy and lack of regulation and governance. [19200/12]

An Bille um an Tríochadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (An Conradh ar Chobhsaíocht, ar Chomhordú agus ar Rialachas san Aontas Eacnamaíoch agus Airgeadaíochta) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil)Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: The treaty on stability, coordination and government, otherwise known as the fiscal treaty, will do nothing to address the appalling effects of the current crisis in capitalism, whether that is in Ireland or throughout the European Union. On the contrary, if the further savage cuts and austerity that would inevitably follow adherence to this treaty's fiscal diktats were implemented across...

Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Notwithstanding what the Taoiseach said this morning, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, said yesterday that he was in favour-----