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- Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: What is the Taoiseach's view of the role of the sub-committee into the future? What new initiatives does it propose to take?
- Social Inclusion. (14 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: It should be possible for the sub-committee to adopt an overarching approach to the issue of social exclusion whereas Ministers and Ministers of State are coming at it from sectional points of view. Does the sub-committee benchmark itself in regard to dealing with the serious social exclusion issues in many communities?
- Constitutional Amendments. (14 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if there are constitutional referenda planned for 2007. [1612/07]
- Constitutional Amendments. (14 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Time is of the essence and the Government is like a patient facing the end and in a panic about several issues that it has not dealt with and must cram in. The Taoiseach mentioned seven issues, of which there are difficulties with two. That does not mean seven separate questions. There are two questions, one of which will encompass a range of those issues. There are seven weeks to Easter,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach filled with embarrassment this morning over the mess into which, by the privatisation of the national airline, he has plunged Aer Lingus workers who have felt obliged to vote by 95% to take industrial action to repel a very wide-ranging assault on their income and conditions? The Taoiseach sold out Aer Lingus workers, he threw them to the wolves on the international Stock...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will bring forward legislation setting out the rights of unmarried, cohabiting couples. [5196/07]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken over the past 11 months to begin the implementation of the new national policy framework for mental health, A Vision for Change. [5168/07]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 387: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish an implementation plan setting out the measures she will take across all areas identified in A Vision for Change and a detailed timetable as to when these measures will be implemented. [5169/07]
- Social Partnership. (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the studies being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42775/06]
- Social Partnership. (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [1611/07]
- Social Partnership. (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the current social partnership agreement Towards 2016. [4431/07]
- Active Citizenship. (13 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach when the task force on active citizenship last met; and when he expects the next meeting to take place. [42772/06]
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (8 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the exact location of the 54 boxes of documentation presented to her Department by a person (details supplied). [4598/07]
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (8 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when Parents for Justice can view the entire contents of the 54 boxes of documentation presented to her Department by a person (details supplied). [4599/07]
- Written Answers — Teacher Training: Teacher Training (8 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 246: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if teacher training students will receive a subsidy to cover the expenses they incur during their mandatory teaching practice placement in view of the fact that these expenses are placing an extra financial burden on students. [4461/07]
- Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. [1604/07]
- Official Engagements. (7 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to undertake during 2007. [1606/07]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Finance if, he will extend the provisions in the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, by which a person obliged to leave the family home and buy another property due to judicial separation or divorce may still be regarded as a first time buyer for the purposes of stamp duty, to unmarried, cohabiting couples. [3595/07]
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: Is the Government taking any emergency measures to rescue half of the population of this State from the shocking debacle that the Taoiseach has allowed to develop in the area of private health insurance? Is there the slightest hint of embarrassment in his Government that the policy of privatisation he has pursued for ten years has, in this particular instance, become a monster that is...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Joe Higgins: The question is very simple. I can help the Taoiseach.