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Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: They were not made redundant but the Government paid millions for it. How much?

Irish Ferries: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: They have tens of thousands from eastern Europe.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Today's OECD report recommends we should all work until the age of 85 or more. This would make the Ceann Comhairle into a Methuselah by the time he were to leave. Is this a plot by the Progressive Democrats to eliminate the need for nursing homes?

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: We will all be tottering onto construction sites at the age of 85 rather than looking forward to retirement.

Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste plan to further change the legislation on pensions to a more negative extent than she did last year in this regard?

Leaders' Questions. (11 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Did the Tánaiste see the invoices?

Written Answers — EU Constitution: EU Constitution (6 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the role he envisions the Referendum Commission playing in regard to the proposed new EU constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18934/05]

Written Answers — Diplomatic Relations: Diplomatic Relations (6 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had the opportunity to raise the relationship between the EU and the Pakistani Government at the discussion on external affairs at the EU Council summit meeting. [21253/05]

Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: They are looking for a few monuments in Parlon country to make up for the civil servants who have not yet arrived.

Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Is the Tánaiste, as Minister for Health and Children, happy that the Government has capitulated abjectly to the major alcohol producers in not proceeding with the legislation to ban or curb advertising which glamorises alcohol? Does she have the same confidence in the multinational firms that control alcohol as the Taoiseach when he says the firms themselves are now policing this...

Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: How long will the Tánaiste give them?

Social Partnership Agreement. (5 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in July 2005 with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25353/05]

Social Partnership Agreement. (5 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25354/05]

Social Partnership Agreement. (5 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25355/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is still waiting for speech and language therapy. [26228/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will begin the speech and language therapy and the occupational therapy recommended for them. [26229/05]

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: Last week the Taoiseach said Irish Ferries was engaged in sharp practice in sacking 543 trade union workers and replacing them with exploited labour from eastern Europe. Was that not utterly empty lip-service from him as in the past 12 months it has emerged that his Government gave millions of euro to the same company, Irish Ferries, in redundancy grants to do exactly the same thing to 150...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: So-called normal industrial relations means the Labour Court. In the case of the MV Normandy, the Labour Court, if I might paraphrase it, said flags of convenience are all the rage and it could do nothing about it. It recommended that the deal had to be accepted. It was exactly the same thing. Some 150 workers on trade union rates of pay and conditions were replaced by cheap, agency labour....

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: It is a sham.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Joe Higgins: What has that got to do with it?