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Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 520: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the social housing budget will be increased in order to significantly increase the output of local authority housing units. [38080/05]

Leaders' Questions. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yesterday approximately 120 Afghans protested outside Leinster House. They were recently refused asylum in the State and they are now asking the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds. Many of them were opponents of the Taliban regime. On what basis is this cruel decision being made leading to them being threatened with deportation? Is it on...

Leaders' Questions. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: ——was central to the construction of the monstrous lie on which the invasion of Iraq was launched, which the Taoiseach also said he believed. As we are entering the season when everybody in this country wants to have a feeling of peace, compassion and happiness, will the Taoiseach please enter into dialogue with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on behalf of these...

Leaders' Questions. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: ——who are distressed, worried and uncertain about their future and in the interests of human rights, give this handful of people from a war-torn country leave to remain in this State?

Leaders' Questions. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: Anybody is at risk of persecution if he or she is sent back to a country that is absolutely ravaged by war, internal strife, war lords and other evils. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was in the United States recently where he implored the United States Government for leave for some tens of thousands of our fellow citizens to remain in the US on human compassion grounds. I support that...

Social Partnership Agreements. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: What about my question?

Consultancy Contracts. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the special interdepartmental group which monitors the appointment of public relations consultants to Departments. [32464/05]

Consultancy Contracts. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: In the interest of allowing more time for the partnership questions I will not ask a supplementary question now.

Social Partnership Agreements. (6 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [32466/05]

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: When the Minister of Transport, Deputy Cullen, was out yesterday throwing shapes at the semi-permanent traffic jam at the M50 toll bridge, he did not indicate — the Tánaiste did not specify this morning — the precise timescale for the toll relief through the roads (miscellaneous provisions) Bill. Hard-pressed motorists want to get through that toll bridge at least as quickly as the...

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: We are suffering out there in west Dublin. When will we get relief from this disaster?

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: She may throw up her hands.

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: The issue is not really about this site, but about the general conditions in which Travelling people live around the country. There are social problems in every community that make the resolution of specific areas more difficult than others. We are speaking about a general problem and a general approach. Is it any wonder that the accommodation and land needs of the Traveller community have...

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree it is a shame that almost 1,000 families, 10% of the Traveller community, are still on roadsides or unserviced sites?

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: If the Government gets another five year term, what would the Taoiseach be prepared to say at the end of it in terms of guarantees? Would every Traveller family be accommodated in appropriate accommodation and would children be secure there, in education and in future employment? Does the Taoiseach agree this society and its growth rates should be able to guarantee this at least?

Computerisation Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the cost to his Department in respect of the e-Cabinet project. [32463/05]

Consultancy Contracts. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the projected and actual cost of consultancy contracts commissioned by his Department since 1997; and the purpose of each assignment. [36866/05]

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: A few days ago, two Traveller children, Michael McGinley, aged three, and his brother Joe, aged 22 months, died tragically in a devastating fire in their caravan in Clondalkin. It was a tragedy that shocked and saddened people around the country. I do not wish to speculate on the cause of the fire, although there was a suggestion in The Irish Times yesterday that it may have resulted from...

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: That is after eight and a half years of Government led by the Taoiseach. Accommodation does hold the key to the future of Travelling people's health, education, employment and particularly the children's future. What hope do Travelling people have in regard to obtaining accommodation, when yesterday the Minister of State with responsibility for housing could not tell Deputy Gilmore how many...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (29 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the mainstreaming of the 1,651 participants and 100 supervisors will commence on the community employment schemes which provide services to persons with disabilities by allocating an extra €11.2 million as outlined in the pre-budget submission of the Disability Federation of Ireland. [36854/05]