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Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Minister is a member of the Government.

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question : To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the imprisonment of five Mayo residents at the behest of the Shell corporation.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: I hope most members of the Government are on the roof the next time a tornado hits it.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the jailing of five small landholders and residents in north Mayo at the behest of the Shell corporation; the fact that Shell is allowed to lay a pipeline for raw natural gas without the risk assessment report on the project being published and debated, in advance of the Minister for...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, you must change the formulation by which you dismiss all requests to move the adjournment stating that they are not in order under Standing Order 31. They are in order under Standing Order 31, but you decide to exercise your discretion not to allow a debate to happen. That should be reflected in the form of words used.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yes, but you will have to change the formulation you use because we are in order. It is your choice not to allow a debate.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Standing Order 31 is in place to allow matters of national importance to be debated.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The jailing of five decent people due to the actions of a multinational corporation is a matter of national importance.

G8 Summit and Overseas Development Aid: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Government amendment to the Green Party motion is replete with hypocrisy. It acknowledges the need for international agreements to control the international trade in arms, to assist conflict resolution and to prevent the terrible cost to human lives and economically. The same Government has allowed our island to be a military aircraft carrier for the biggest imperialist superpower and...

G8 Summit and Overseas Development Aid: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: International capitalism is at the root of world poverty. Exploitation and poverty are inevitable tools of international capitalism and if that system is not changed, we will be here in 20 years' time with the same poverty and the same horror.

G8 Summit and Overseas Development Aid: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: I will be in Edinburgh to protest the policies of the G8, but unless we sweep away this rotten system where investment and production are simply to satisfy the greed of a tiny but wealthy and powerful corporate minority and replace it with a system where production investment is for the good of humanity, poverty will always be there.

Personal Statement by Member. (29 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: On 15 June I stated in the Dáil that the multinational corporation General Electric was involved in a legal manoeuvre to compel the Industrial Development Authority to pay millions of euro for land belonging properly to the Irish people, and that General Electric used these proceeds to finance pressurised redundancies at a company called Diamond Innovations. I am reliably informed that the...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in the interests of public health, she will meet with the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment to discuss its concerns regarding the threat to health posed by the proposed building of a toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy, County Cork. [22533/05]

Written Answers — Irish Emigrants: Irish Emigrants (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, as a matter of urgency, a financial contribution will be made to the Hammersmith and Fulham Irish Centre, London (details supplied), to pay the rent and prevent its closure due to lack of funds. [22195/05]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 363: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress, which has been made in bringing to justice the person responsible for the murder of two Irish soldiers (details supplied). [22639/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will change the situation whereby contributory old age pensioners on reduced rate pension who made part of their contributions pre-1953 are not entitled to claim anything on their pre-1953 contributions without relinquishing their post-1953 contributory pension entitlements. [22136/05]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 479: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will revert to the position whereby funding under the programme of grants for locally based community education groups is awarded upfront instead of retrospectively on the basis of vouched expenditure for amounts of €5,000 and over, as at present, details supplied. [21868/05]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 480: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason funding under the programme of grants for locally based community education groups is now to be awarded retrospectively on the basis of vouched expenditure for amounts of €5,000 and over, when locally based community education groups already return receipts for all their expenditure and complete a...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 481: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposal for retrospective funding for amounts of €5,000 and over under the programme of grants for locally based community education groups would mean that instead of funding community groups, the funding would be awarded towards the interest on loans from...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (28 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 482: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many groups accessing funding through the programme of grants for locally based community education groups are run by volunteers, details supplied. [21871/05]