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- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: These are the 3,000 beds that the Government parties ripped out ruthlessly in the 1980s when they aimed at the old, the sick and the handicapped. If the Government rips out thousands of beds, naturally it will have an acute difficulty. If in the meantime the population increases by three quarters of a million people it will have a full-blown crisis. That is as simple as A,B,C. The...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: The reality is that the Government stands over a two-tier health system which it sponsors and nurtures. That is having a grievous impact on the plight of public patients including those who are very ill. For the most part private hospitals do not cater for the very ill. They cherrypick the profitable procedures and the very sick and those requiring high maintenance are directed back into...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: I did not say that.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is rewriting the script.
- Departmental Estimates. (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Estimate for 2007 for his Department. [42776/06]
- Employment of People with Disabilities. (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach his Department's policy on the employment of people with a disability. [42779/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [42759/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42761/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (31 Jan 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [42763/06]
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the four neurologists budgeted for 2005 will be appointed. [43419/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the actions he will take arising from recent reports of collusion between the British authorities and loyalist paramilitaries. [42771/06]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 470: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the construction of a new secondary school for the Castleknock area, Dublin 15 as a matter of urgency. [42422/06]
- Departmental Bodies. (12 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the communications unit in his Department. [42770/06]
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the workers made redundant from the Irish Glass Bottle Company are to receive moneys from the sale of the site on which the company was located. [42136/06]
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative situation which allowed a company or its successor (details supplied) to hive off its main asset, the site on which the company was located, and plead that there were no assets to make redundancy payments to the workforce. [42137/06]
- Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Transport the way the proceeds of the sale of the site of the Irish Glass Bottle Company will be divided between the Dublin Port Company, the directors of a company (details supplied) and the shareholders of that company. [42134/06]
- Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport the process by which a company (details supplied) was able to acquire the site on which the Irish Glass Bottle Company was located and enter into an arrangement with the Dublin Port Company to sell this asset. [42135/06]
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: An important new record was set this morning when it took two hours and 25 minutes for the 39A bus to come from Ongar to the city centre, a journey of 12 miles.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Any crash, big or small, around north-west Dublin creates instant gridlock for 20 miles.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes.