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Leaders' Questions. (26 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Words are cheap. The Government should introduce legislation to address the issue.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Government financed it in the case of the MV Normandy.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: That is right and it was stated at the meeting.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is suggesting that slavery is endorsed by the Constitution.

Written Answers — Emergency Response Plan: Emergency Response Plan (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 335: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he received an outline of Dublin Port Company's emergency response plan since the Shell FOB fire incident which occurred on 27 June 2004. [30107/05]

Written Answers — Emergency Response Plan: Emergency Response Plan (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 336: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Dublin Port Company is obliged to have 24-hour fire protection cover as required by legislation. [30108/05]

Written Answers — Emergency Response Plan: Emergency Response Plan (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Dublin Port Company is negligent in its responsibilities to its workforce, port tenants and surrounding communities by not providing 24-hour cover by the ports fire protection unit. [30109/05]

Written Answers — Harbour Police Powers: Harbour Police Powers (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is aware that the harbour police have no powers under the road traffic Acts or Dublin Port by-laws to enforce road traffic management within the environs of Dublin Port and therefore to prevent speeding, dangerous driving and road traffic accidents. [30110/05]

Written Answers — Harbour Police Powers: Harbour Police Powers (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is aware that Dublin Port Company is attempting to change the status of the harbour police as a statute police force. [30111/05]

Written Answers — Harbour Police Powers: Harbour Police Powers (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the request of SIPTU docks, marine and transport branch for a full hearing by the Labour Court into conditions of employment and the status of harbour police. [30112/05]

Written Answers — Harbour Police Powers: Harbour Police Powers (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will meet with representatives of the SIPTU docks, marine and transport branch to discuss the policing of the Dublin Port Company and the implementation of the ISPS code. [30113/05]

Written Answers — Equality Legislation: Equality Legislation (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 469: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he will take to end the discrimination encountered by tenants in the private rented sector in receipt of rent allowance who despite having references are refused accommodation by landlords solely due to their status as persons in receipt of rent allowance. [30091/05]

Written Answers — Explosives Licences: Explosives Licences (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 470: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason an explosives licence can be approved for a quarry in County Monaghan operated by a person (details supplied) which is not operating under any planning permission and does not have any pre-1964 status from the date before the current planning system came into force. [30092/05]

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach endorse the overweening arrogance of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, who last week insulted, bullied and threatened 8,000 postal workers because they dared to exercise a democratic right to vote for industrial action over a pay dispute? Does he endorse that Minister's threat to privatise the postal service because post...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: There has been routine replacement of unionised jobs and rates of pay by semi-slave labour. Will the Taoiseach instruct An Post to pay its workers and pensioners what they are due and to separate this payment from other negotiations on the postal services? Will the Taoiseach introduce legislation to outlaw the replacement of established jobs with semi-bonded labour, and the grotesque...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: My Independent colleagues in this House tell me that up and down the country, An Post provides a vital social service. However, the Government refuses to subvent or finance it. For the past three years the Government has financed it by shortchanging postal workers and more scandalously, pensioners of An Post, a very vulnerable group. The Government has then used as whipping-boys the postal...

Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: What is the issue?

Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (20 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funding will be made available for a sports hall in a school (details supplied) in Dublin which has been approved since 2000. [29992/05]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (20 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funds will be made available to carry out the necessary structural and refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) in Dublin. [29993/05]

Written Answers — Multi-denominational Schools: Multi-denominational Schools (20 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make available to Educate Together the finances it has requested to underpin the need for such schools in the State and if the development of multi-denominational education will be put on a statutory footing. [29994/05]