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Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006 represents the logical progression of an Irish Government which has consistently bent the knee to the interests of major imperialist powers around the globe since it came to power. While billions of ordinary people throughout the world understood that the excuse for the invasion of Iraq — that the country had weapons of mass destruction — was a monstrous...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Joe Higgins: The mood of working people within the EU is not towards the creation of battle groups and militarisation. That mood was captured in the massive protests against the Iraq invasion which mobilised millions of ordinary citizens throughout the EU. I assure the Minister and the Government that if the EU moves increasingly, as it intends to do, in the direction of militarisation, it will come up...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Joe Higgins: Is the Deputy sharing time?

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (4 Jul 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a further interim report from the MacEntee Commission. [23319/06]

Office of the Attorney General. (4 Jul 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if the recommendations implemented following the 1994 report of the review group on the Office of the Attorney General remain in operation. [23320/06]

Written Answers — Gaelscoileanna agus Naíonraí: Gaelscoileanna agus Naíonraí (4 Jul 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 289: To ask the Aire Airgeadais cén réiteach atá á dhéanamh aige maidir le fadhbanna maidir le Gaelscoil (sonraí tugtha) i gContae Luimnigh. [26233/06]

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The country is still reeling from the terrifying image of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, brandishing a poker as a callow youth.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I thought he might have used a silver spoon instead. Since he was apparently trying to protect what he regarded as his, was any poker brandished during his recent duels with the Tánaiste? Would she like to share that with us?

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I would like a very specific answer from the Tánaiste regarding the matter raised by Deputy Rabbitte. Next Thursday, 6 July, Bord na gCon is scheduled to appear before the Committee of Public Accounts.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: This is appropriate to the Order of Business.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The point is that the Dalton report would have been in our hands. Will we have that report for the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts next Thursday? The Tánaiste has a special insight into this. It was reported in today's newspapers that Gama Construction will receive an additional payment of €15 million to finish off the Ennis bypass, €6 million of which curiously comes under...

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Is Gama now being rewarded on foot of using slave labour?

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Gama had to pay the full rate out of this amount. Is it now being compensated for the additional money it had to pay out?

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Is this what is going on in this State?

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: What about Gama?

School Accommodation. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Tá mé ag roinnt leath mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Cowley. I rise to give voice to the extreme concerns of parents and their children in the Laytown-Bettystown area of east Meath. Those children will need a place this September in Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa in Laytown. The parents' association has issued a statement: The failure locally to plan for or provide suitable and sufficient school...

School Accommodation. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: It was another slip of the tongue by the Taoiseach. Can the Minister of State tell the House when the portakabins will be in place? Will they be there for September? They will have to be.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: How much have PAYE workers paid over a number of years?

Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [23318/06]

Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree with the argument in the Economic Outlook 2006, published by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, that profits have risen very rapidly and that the wage-profit share in the economy has been skewed away from labour to employers in a remarkable fashion? Does he accept that the statistics show that national agreements between Government, bosses and trade unions since 1987...