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Leaders' Questions. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Recent months have shown labour laws to be pathetically inadequate in vindicating the rights and entitlements of workers in this State. Incredibly yesterday, the High Court said the law prohibits the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from publishing the report of the labour inspectorate into the vicious regime of exploitation by Gama Construction on its sites. Is the Tánaiste...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: The labour inspectorate did an excellent job in trying to out the truth in the Gama affair. I am talking about the rights of all workers, Irish and migrant. The laws under which the labour inspectorate work are totally inadequate. The workers are chasing justice 12 or 18 months down the road in the courts. In the meantime they have been harassed, bullied and sacked from their jobs by their...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: It is not a small minority of cases but an increasing number of cases.

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 401: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of the communications between his Department and the plasterers' union referred to in the two page report from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment into allegations against GAMA construction in October 2003. [19012/05]

Written Answers — Industrial Grants: Industrial Grants (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 422: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if companies (details supplied) or any related company under the same ownership have received any public funding; if so, the amount; and if they have been approved for any public funding not yet issued. [20108/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make changes to the policy of clawing back overpayments from the wills of non-contributory pensioners who saved their pension money in the past when the threshold to avail of the full pension was set as low as £200 in 1979 to 1997 and £2,000 in 1997 to 2000, considering that the savings threshold for entitlement to...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department did not advise non-contributory pensioners that by saving a portion of their pensions to provide for themselves in private nursing homes in the event that they could not get a place in a health board home, they were leaving themselves open to having their pensions reduced, or an amount clawed back from their...

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the seventh British-Irish Council summit in the Isle of Man. [18926/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach when he will meet the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18927/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [18928/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [18929/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation. : Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are only 20 paediatric psychiatric beds in the entire State for the under 16 population, with many regions of the country having no beds at all, and no beds for 16 to 18 year olds. [18515/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation. : Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the immediate steps she will take to ensure that all regions of the country have sufficient paediatric psychiatric beds available for persons under 18 years in crisis situations who may otherwise may be placed in totally inappropriate psychiatric units for adults. [18516/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (1 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has a revised timetable for meeting the UN target for overseas development aid of 0.7% of GNP given that the Government has admitted that it will not meet its original timetable of reaching the target by 2007. [18526/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (1 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which he proposes to meet the UN target for overseas development aid of 0.7% of GNP in view of the fact that for the last three years the percentage of GNP going to overseas development aid has fallen from 0.41% to 0.39%. [18527/05]

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

Joe Higgins: Considering that the French working class has dealt a body blow to the EU constitution because of its neo-liberal thrust, will the Taoiseach accept that the constitution is dead in the water? To repeat Deputy Rabbitte's question from a different perspective, does the Government propose to postpone the legislation which was to be brought before the House before the summer recess?

Written Answers — Broadband Services: Broadband Services (31 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the action he is taking to ensure that broadband service will be provided in the Palmerstown, Dublin 20 area as companies (details supplied) do not provide a broadband service there. [17960/05]

Written Answers — Broadband Services: Broadband Services (31 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if it is acceptable that no broadband service will be provided in the majority of Palmerstown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17961/05]

Decentralisation Programme. (31 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department. [15217/05]

Decentralisation Programme. (31 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: What percentage of the Taoiseach's staff does that number comprise? How does it compare with other Departments? It is a high take up, given that the Taoiseach does not have a huge number of staff, apart from all the advisers and media professionals at his elbow. Have the staff been transferred? If not, when will the transfers be effected?