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- Written Answers — Company Ownership: Company Ownership (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 415: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has established who the beneficial owners of a company (details supplied) were in 2005 when millions of euro in Gama workers' wages were channelled into this company. [14632/06]
- Written Answers — Dublin Airport Authority: Dublin Airport Authority (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will establish an independent pension scheme for the employees of the Dublin Airport Authority. [15375/06]
- Written Answers — Airlines Pension Scheme: Airlines Pension Scheme (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in respect of the topping up of the Irish airlines pension scheme, he will top up the entire scheme or just the Aer Lingus portion of the scheme. [15376/06]
- Written Answers — Airlines Pension Scheme: Airlines Pension Scheme (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 523: To ask the Minister for Transport how he intends to resolve the under funding of the Irish airlines pension scheme in relation to former Aer Lingus employees, now working for a company (details supplied) who are members of the scheme. [15377/06]
- Written Answers — Airlines Pension Scheme: Airlines Pension Scheme (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 524: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount by which a company's (details supplied) portion of the Irish airlines pension scheme is under funded; and the amount of this under funding which is the responsibility of Aer Lingus. [15378/06]
- Written Answers — Judicial Recommendations: Judicial Recommendations (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 654: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of the recommendations made by a judge (details supplied) that have been implemented to date. [14573/06]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 908: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans for a new secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in view of the large and growing population increase in this area. [15387/06]
- Commemorative Events. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the preparations for the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. [14272/06]
- Commemorative Events. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Was it not breathtaking hypocrisy for the Taoiseach's Government to pretend to honour those who fought in 1916 when the Proclamation for which they fought, although certainly not a socialist document despite the presence of the great socialist, James Connolly, asserted the ownership of Ireland by the people? Does it not fly completely in the face of the spirit of that that his Government is...
- Sport and Recreational Development. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make a submission to Fingal County Council regarding the lands at Abbotstown and the county council study to determine a suitable mix of sporting and appropriate commercial, leisure and amenity uses in order to create a vibrant and sustainable sports campus; and if he will investigate the possibility of opening up these...
- Sport and Recreational Development. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I do not want the Minister to pre-empt the outcome of the study, but I would like him to elaborate on the development of the Abbotstown lands from the viewpoint of having them opened as a residential amenity for residents of the greater Blanchardstown and wider area. Does the Minister agree that greater Blanchardstown is growing at an unprecedented rate, with thousands of residential units...
- Sport and Recreational Development. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I hope the Minister and his Department will consider the proposal positively. When I was first elected to Dublin County Council, as it was in 1991, there was a proposal for a regional park for greater Blanchardstown, comprising those lands. Unfortunately, the Department of Agriculture and Food blocked that at every hand's turn and the people of Blanchardstown did not get their regional park....
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: At the Irish Medical Organisation conference last weekend doctors committed to the public health service, as opposed to those who see health as a source of speculation or profit, raised strong questions on Government policy in facilitating private hospitals with generous tax breaks and other concessions. How does the Taoiseach answer the assertion from those who are deeply committed to public...
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Did it ever strike the Taoiseach that it is those who are genuinely committed to public health care and the health service who oppose the privatisation policy of his Government whereas those who favour it are the speculators, including certain sections of the medical profession who seek to gain by investing â in other words, speculating â in health care? The Taoiseach showed himself...
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââwould think of a Government that pushes for a private hospital on the grounds of a public hospital named after him, with the Government providing huge tax breaks to the speculators who would take up that venture? He would be as withering about the Taoiseach and his Government's policy as he was towards their equivalents in his own day. Will the Taoiseach state which policy will be...
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Whose view will prevail? Who is running the country?
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: How many public beds, which he should already have provided, does the Taoiseach suggest should be provided and how many will he provide? Does he acknowledge that citing figures, as frequently happens, in regard to the billions of euro invested in the health service does not elucidate the question whatsoever? In fact, we are lower by far than the EU average criterion with regard to public...
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should not try to confuse the issue by referring to day patients and the like. There is now a tendency in certain quarters to push women who have just given birth out of the hospital on the evening of the birth or the next morning. That is not real health care for our people.
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: A huge number do not want private medicine. They are driven to it.
- Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I wonder if ex-Taoisigh can avail of the money advice and budgeting service concerning the organisation of personal financesââ