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- Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââconsidering the utter bewilderment of the former Taoiseach, Mr. Albert Reynolds, about whether he had a few â¬100,000 invested in property.
- Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: The nation is wondering. What hope do poor people have if the MABS cannot look after their investments?
- Written Answers — Vetting of Personnel: Vetting of Personnel (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take immediate steps to ensure that a mandatory obligation is placed on every organisation working with children to carry out comprehensive vetting procedures on the employment or contracting of staff. [14200/06]
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person, who is here on a tourist visa, must return to their country of origin if they decide to make an application to remain in Ireland on a student visa. [13978/06]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, given that her Department is ultimately responsible for the welfare and protection of children, she will take immediate action to guarantee health and safety and child protection standards for children with special needs in cases where Bus Ãireann contracts out its school transport to taxi drivers. [14199/06]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 401: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, given that her Department is ultimately responsible for school transport and contracts out the provision of school transport to Bus Ãireann, she will take immediate action to guarantee heath and safety and child protection standards for children with special needs in cases where Bus Ãireann contracts out its school transport to...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will abolish the practice of Bus Ãireann handing over responsibility of school transport to taxi drivers or hackney drivers and introduce instead an appropriate bus service. [14205/06]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 403: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, until she introduces an appropriate school bus service for the transport of all special needs children, she will immediately introduce an escort, qualified and trained to work with special needs children, to accompany children whose school transport has been contracted out to taxi and hackney drivers at all times during their...
- Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take immediate steps to ensure that a mandatory obligation is placed on every organisation working with children to carry out comprehensive vetting procedures on the employment or contracting of staff. [14207/06]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a national hearing screening programme for all newborn babies in view of the fact that the failure to introduce this screening is causing serious lifelong disadvantage to deaf children arising from late diagnosis of deafness and consequent delay in receiving essential support services and in further...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Management companies in apartments must be regulated. However, this is only half a Bill because it is confined to apartments but the problem is also critical in housing estates. Since Deputy Catherine Murphy and I raised this matter last Autumn it has, thankfully, been opened up to public discussion. Management companies are being foisted on young people purchasing their first home. In turn,...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I notice the millionaire-owned press this morning warmly embraces the Government decision to privatise the national airline. Why would it not do so given that some of its key players made a fortune in asset-stripping the previous major taxpayer-owned company the Government privatised, namely, Telecom Ãireann? No doubt the directors of Greencore warmly applaud the decision to privatise Aer...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Why does the Taoiseach persist with the fraudulent assertion that privatisation is necessary for funding when he is well aware that, if necessary, public funding to the tune of billions of euro can be wisely invested in this national asset? Shamefully, under his mandate our nationally-owned pension funds are invested in the murderous armaments trade and killer tobacco industries but are not...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is untrue. The Government refused to invest in Aer Lingus.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should address the issues.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should return to his history books and learn the real historyââ
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I see one of the Cork Deputies has got his voice back. Perhaps he will raise it in support of Aer Lingus workers. The Taoiseach should go back to his history books and read the real history of socialism.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: He would learn that the monstrous dictatorships in eastern Europe, with which Fianna Fáil Party Governments had diplomatic relations and its Ministers regularly visited, would be anathema to that for which the Socialist Party has always stood. The Taoiseach has evaded the issues. Why are right-wing economists â not socialists â calling for the renationalisation of Eircom following the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: If I were the Minister, I would hide in the benches over there.