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Irish Language: Statements. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Sin é an fadhb nach bhfuil aon suim ag an tAire an Blascaod Mór a dhéanamh ina pháirc náisiúnta stairiúil.

Irish Language: Statements. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Baineann sé le oidhreacht na Ghaeilge.

Irish Language: Statements. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Joined-up Government a deireann siad i mBéarla.

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: We know that the chief executive of Ryanair would like to take full control of all the airports in the State but was it not going a bit far to invade a British military airfield in Derry?

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: I suggest the Air Corps should be put on alert. Will the Minister introduce a supplementary Estimate for emergency provision for the 200 children in Dublin West who were denied places in school in September? In the same week as further revelations of tens of thousands of euro in bribes to local politicians in Fingal, is it not clear that the children of west Dublin are the victims of this...

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——making massive profits but without any provision for the children or the necessary public funding for the community? Is this not incredible? What emergency action will the Government take?

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: What about the victims?

European Council Meetings. (29 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: While it is all very well getting the rip-off by the mobile telephone companies onto the agenda of the European leaders and the Commission, would the Taoiseach agree that the key point is to get speedy action? The international mobile telephone companies mercilessly rip-off Irish people travelling in Europe with so-called roaming charges. Even the term roaming would suggest that one should...

European Council Meetings. (29 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: They have been allowed free rein. In that regard, the fact that the word profiteering would pass the Taoiseach's lips suggests that it must be fairly severe because I have never succeeded in getting the same terminology out of him on those such as home-grown land speculators to whom he has given free rein as well. What is the timescale in reining in the charges of these massive companies?...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (28 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has turned over the stones but Mr. Blair has not done so.

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (28 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received the third interim report from the MacEntee commission into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10202/06]

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (28 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is obvious that to clear up all these issues the full co-operation of the British State authorities is necessary, otherwise it will be a sham. What hope is there of getting the British State to reveal all the information it has on these issues in the Republic when in a far more recent case in Northern Ireland, the Blair regime is actively frustrating the full inquiry into the Pat Finucane...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste confirm that I heard correctly on RTE radio this morning that she proposes to hand the care of our elderly people over to a money-grubbing private American-based franchise, which will rip €10——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: It will rip €10 for every hour a home carer would work caring for the elderly. The Tánaiste will not resource the public home help system——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——yet she proposes this.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: There is a legislative point which was raised this morning. The so-called Comfort Keepers website——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——states that it will bring the comfort business to Ireland. I know the Progressive Democrats Party takes the biscuit——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——for crassness when it comes to how the health service should be treated.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Rather than asking the Tánaiste when the legislation will be introduced or whether this will be put on a statutory basis, I ask her, for the sake of decency and our elderly, to scrap this crass incredible privatisation.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: I asked about the——