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Social Partnership Agreements. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is a question. I am asking the Taoiseach whether he agrees that no effective barriers have been placed in the way of employers getting rid of workers in favour of cheaper labour, especially cheaper migrant labour? This question merits an answer. Does the Taoiseach agree that the entire partnership process, even while it was being negotiated this time around, has been shown again to be a...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is attempting to impose an outside of hours general practitioner service on the people of west Kerry, in view of the fact the local population demands cover by local doctors who are known to them and who are prepared to provide the service. [24647/06]

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I dealt last week with the impossible housing situation for tens of thousands of young working people. That situation remains the same. The Government has failed disastrously on the critical issue of infrastructure for burgeoning communities. Deputy Cowley and I, representing Independent Deputies, were in Laytown in east Meath this morning where 89 children do not have school places for...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: We have had a doubling of the population.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: People are spending hours in traffic every day.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should ask the former Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, where the new school is in Laytown.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The pupils had to use the parish house for their classes.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: There is no new school there.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should come into the real world. In the real world there are hundreds of children who cannot find school places for next September.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should come into the real world.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I spoke for less time than anyone else, but that is okay.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: That was a great cue from the Taoiseach. This is my last opportunity to raise a query on Leaders' Questions before the recess.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: I wish to demand an overall account of the Taoiseach's stewardship of Irish society. Does he agree that two key headlines this morning aptly sum up his Government's record? Multimillionaires wallow in a tax break bonanza, but in the second-richest country in Europe, we do not need a report from Sweden but only the testimony of pensioners on trolleys to confirm that in terms of our health...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Whatever about Deputy Johnny Brady, several of his colleagues should have ended up there long ago.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Deputies McGuinness and Andrews are beginning to adopt the confident air of a Fletcher Christian.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Like the ill-fated Captain Bligh, whose ill temper he certainly displayed last week, the Taoiseach might find himself adrift. As for his partners in Government, the political dysfunctionals — not our description but that of their friends, the party trustees — the digging match between the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Tánaiste would do justice to two junior GAA...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has one year in which to make changes. Will he indicate three steps he will take in the interests of working-class people to resolve the critical issues to which I referred, particularly in the areas of health and infrastructural deficits?

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent meeting of the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership. [23314/06]

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: If I heard the Taoiseach correctly, he said the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships has a crucial role in identifying appropriate issues to be addressed. How is that role fulfilled in identifying global infrastructural needs in our society? Does the Taoiseach accept that social and physical infrastructure is disastrously lacking in areas with the most...

Interdepartmental Committees. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: With respect to the Minister of State, Deputy Lenihan, he would be much better off finding school places for the 100 children who have none in the Dublin West constituency than venturing to Dublin Airport where there is already enough capacity. However, that is for another day.