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Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the State had a statutory function that would allow it to inspect the Morning Star mother and baby unit, as opposed to whether documentation detailing actual inspections of that institution can be located. [40308/05]

Written Answers — Residential Institutions: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Department began inspecting the Morning Star mother and baby unit. [40301/05]

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 373: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when legislation will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas to provide a clear legal framework for a repayments scheme in relation to over-charging for publicly funded, long-term residential care. [1422/06]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Finance if in the upcoming Finance Bill he will make provisions for childminding relief to be linked to social insurance in order that all childminders will be covered under class S and that all their income will be included for social insurance purposes. [1740/06]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 595: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, noting the arrangement whereby Venezuela agreed to provide oil at cheaper prices for some categories of citizens of the United States, the Venezuelan Government will be approached for a similar arrangement for people here for whom the high market prices are causing great difficulty. [1759/06]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 683: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland received a request to grant political asylum to two ethnic Uighurs (details supplied) whose detention at the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay has been deemed unlawful by a US district judge. [1068/06]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 1223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the ratio of one guidance counsellor to 250 pupils will be restored. [40195/05]

Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: On that issue also——

Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Jan 2006)

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Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Given the Taoiseach has spent the last week smothered in garlands pink and white I realise it is difficult to focus on more local issues. In regard to his response to Deputy Deenihan that the Abbotstown sports campus development authority Bill will shortly be brought forward, does that mean any of that land will not be let out to speculators as is strongly rumoured?

Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the land be let out to speculators or will it be for sports facilities only?

Leaders' Questions. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: The sharks in the financial markets are pushing for the early privatisation of Aer Lingus. The Government took a decision in principle last year that it would privatise the company and leave an island nation without a publicly-owned air transport vehicle, which many see as a strategic interest. What is the Government's position? Will it shamefully hand the national airline and its staff to...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has broken his new year's resolution on his first day back. I asked him a number of precise questions. Judging by newspaper articles I read recently, the staff at the National Museum got more information out of Clonycavan man, and the poor man was dead for 2,000 years in a bog, than the Taoiseach has provided today. The Taoiseach is very much alive in front of me. I might call...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Government could provide equity.

Leaders' Questions. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: All the garlands went to the Taoiseach's head. He should talk sense.

Leaders' Questions. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: No answers.

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeframe for the completion of the report of the commission of investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings 1974. [38011/05]

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Government gave an initial extension until 31 January and one of the reasons given was that the Garda Commissioner was asked to invoke certain procedures available to him to obtain for the commission disclosure of documentation relevant to the investigation that was not available at the time. Does the Taoiseach know what progress was made in this regard? Another reason for the extension...

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (25 Jan 2006)

Joe Higgins: I tabled many questions and I agree with the points made. For future reference, there should be a new method of grouping questions, for example, EU related questions could be grouped together and separate from more general international questions. Northern Ireland questions should be treated likewise. They all should be separate and that would make it much more manageable and much more...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (14 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will substantially increase the funding available for the delivery of the emerging needs fund in view of the fact that the budget of €1 million is inadequate to deal with the drugs crisis in local communities. [39395/05]