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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 771: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction funding to enable ACORN applied behavioural analysis school for autistic children to set up a unit on Dublin's north side for 12 autistic children, in view of the long waiting lists for existing schools providing this type of education for autistic children and the great benefit of early intervention and...

Written Answers — Departmental Documents: Departmental Documents (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 832: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in view of his reply to Question No. 570 of 7 March 2006, he will undertake to update his Department's website concerning the case of a person (details supplied) to the effect that the report of the Judge Advocate General publicised on the website was subsequently quashed by the High Court in July 2005. [10442/06]

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 871: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which he intends to strengthen the ability of the Private Residential Tenancies Board to effectively enforce registration of private properties, in view of the fact that most of the enforcement notices sent by the Private Residential Tenancies Board to over 250 houses in Tallaght have effectively...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: I must move on to a different topic, but yesterday's events show that mocking is catching.

Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: When former Deputy Desmond O'Malley predicted wrongly that Deputy Michael D. Higgins would go mad if in Government, it was bound to happen to one of his own. I said from this spot three years ago that it was a mistake to allow the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform close that last padded cell in Mountjoy because it might be required for himself. Yesterday's events go to show that....

Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach reflect on the inglorious record on privatisation of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats? Eircom involved an orgy of asset stripping and speculation, with huge detriment to investment in that industry. The Irish Sugar privatisation has wiped out the beet industry to be replaced not by small holders from the Third World but sweated sugar. We had the B&I Line...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Dr. Somers said the NTMA can raise up to €5 billion and that this money could, in theory, be invested. He said that is a policy issue and not a decision for him to make. He said that simply put, while it is technically possible it is not his call. It is the Government's call. The Government could make the call. A combination of borrowing in this way and leasing is entirely possible to kit...

Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: He may have moved on at that stage but that is what will happen. Is the Taoiseach aware of the history of New Zealand Air, which was privatised with disastrous consequences and then had to be bought back by the New Zealand state? I ask the Taoiseach to listen to those workers who have been in touch with him and who have shown tremendous commitment to this public asset and will continue to do...

Public Inquiries. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had communication from the family of murdered solicitor, Mr. Pat Finucane, in relation to the terms of an inquiry. [5506/06]

Public Inquiries. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: With all due respect to the Taoiseach, it is not a question of the reassurances he gave anybody and everybody. It is about what Mr. Blair said to the Taoiseach, when they met during the past two weeks, about a full proper public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. How does the Taoiseach interpret the intention of the British Government to hold the inquiry into that murder on the basis of...

Public Inquiries. (21 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——if he does not comply with what the majority of Irish people wish in this regard?

Written Answers — Stardust Disaster: Stardust Disaster (9 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has arranged to meet families bereaved by the Stardust disaster. [9377/06]

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: On the same subject, thousands of Irish people demonstrated in Washington DC yesterday, and their illegal status is the cause of massive trauma in their lives because of the uncertainty of their awful situation. I ask the Tánaiste if the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs will bring any fresh proposals to Washington DC in order to have a right for tens of thousands of our people in...

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: In the forthcoming week, there will be women from the likes of Somalia and Nigeria seeking permission to make lives here for themselves and their children. Will the Tánaiste give some signal to those people, who have been enduring great trauma like our own people in the United States, that they will be allowed to make a future for themselves?

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: They are seeking asylum.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is a heartless response.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Of course the Tánaiste has confidence in the Chief Whip because she herself accepted political donations from speculators. The Tánaiste cannot evade responsibility for the consequences of the ethos which her Government has inculcated into Irish society. Has it ever occurred to the Tánaiste that the escalating cruelty and sheer callousness towards the fate of others, witnessed on the mean...

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Nonsense.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: Taking money from speculators is not honest fundraising.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Joe Higgins: What is the Tánaiste's position on the latest pandemic of donations amnesia to afflict her Fianna Fáil partners in Government? Is it convincing that the Chief Whip of her Government could forget to tell the planning tribunal about a £2,000 donation from a wealthy landowner——