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Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 418: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the legal basis of the requirement that a person here on a tourist visa, must return to their country of origin in order to apply for a student visa. [15947/06]

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Should the Government have started then?

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: The last census was over four years ago. What has the Government been doing for the past four years?

Departmental Bodies. (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14273/06]

Departmental Bodies. (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach aware of a speech made by his colleague, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, at the second Irish public private partnership policy forum on 5 April 2006? Is it not clear from that speech and from what the Taoiseach himself says that so-called public private partnership is really a flag under which this Government is relentlessly pushing the privatisation of public...

Departmental Bodies. (3 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am illustrating with one or two examples the effects of Government policy because that is how such matters are perceived locally. I want the Taoiseach to be answerable for that. The only reason the Government is driving public private partnerships is for ideological reasons and to facilitate powerful private corporate companies. The experience of the Jarvis schools shows that if schools...

Written Answers — Stardust Tragedy: Stardust Tragedy (27 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has arranged to meet families bereaved by the Stardust disaster. [14268/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the immediate steps she is taking to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the investigation into complaints made by a person (details supplied) against the early intervention service and the Health Service Executive, north east region in December 2005. [15565/06]

Written Answers — Semi-State Bodies: Semi-State Bodies (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to Coillte. [15596/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [14267/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14269/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [14270/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [14271/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the privatisation of the Sellafield nuclear processing plant with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [14278/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his meeting with the President of the United States, Mr. George W. Bush. [14281/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make capital funding available to build the planned women's refuge in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. [14531/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has under-resourced the public home help service while at the same time subsidised private companies providing home help services through the Health Service Executive and through the recently introduced €1,000 home care grant. [15372/06]

Written Answers — Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian Aid (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 375: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a report from the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Relief and Work Agency that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster due to lack of money and of basic food supplies; and if he will raise this matter at the level of the EU the UN...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, further to data received from Gama Construction and Gama Endustri concerning wages paid to their Turkish workers employed here, he has been informed of the number of workers who had accounts in their name in Finansbank Holland in Amsterdam and the total; if all of their workers have been informed of the accounts in...