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Written Answers — Transport of Dangerous Goods: Transport of Dangerous Goods (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the opinion of the Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors Association of Ireland that its members should not have to repeat their examinations every five years but instead should be obliged to take refresher courses every two years when they would be granted an extension to practice for the following...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is invested on their behalf by the courts, even when their income is below the threshold for paying tax, and that they are not entitled to a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/04]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to change the situation whereby injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is invested on their behalf and are not entitled to a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12476/04]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his Department will put in place immediately a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State as recommended by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children as a matter of urgency in its July 2001 report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12452/04]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a period of two years has elapsed since the Irish Vaccine Injury Campaign was promised that a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State would be set up without indication of such a scheme being set up in the immediate future; and if he will make a statement on the...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: The scaffold was only half built when they had to leave. It is truly farcical to have Dáil Éireann, the representative assembly of the nation, tied up for hours today and on further days discussing this Bill for nothing when so many pressing issues should be brought before the Dáil. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is like a man at the church door, about to...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent matter: the criminal waste of up to €50 million of taxpayers' funds on voting machines which cannot be used for the local and European elections on 11 June; the reason the Taoiseach and the Government allowed the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government arrogantly to dismiss the...

Commissions of Inquiry. (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive a further report on the Dundalk and Belturbet bombings from the Barron commission of inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9104/04]

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joe Higgins: The structure of the proceedings in the Dáil today and tomorrow shows the utter contempt of the Government in the manner it treats this Parliament. The Taoiseach is not present and cannot be questioned. The possibility of raising private notice, oral or written questions has been ruled out by order of the Government and the sheep behind it who voted for it. The critical issues that need to...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joe Higgins: That did not stop the Minister from claiming that was the reason for this amendment.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joe Higgins: We know what is being said on the doorsteps.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should sit down.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joe Higgins: Will the Minister go to Saudi Arabia to get the passports back?

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he intends to take as a matter of urgency to help parents with the excessive burden of child care costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9596/04]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will seek the introduction as a matter of urgency legislation to compel all large companies and State bodies to provide free or subsidised child care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9607/04]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will seek the introduction, as a matter of urgency, of legislation to compel all large companies and State bodies to provide free or subsidised child care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9615/04]

Departmental Investigations. (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that, in certain court cases in recent years, it has appeared that the Judiciary, in interpreting the law, has been acting as an extension of the Dáil rather than as pure judges of crucial issues? What does he think should be done to avoid giving huge latitude——

Departmental Investigations. (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question No. 2 asks: "if the Government has directed an audit of the Statute Book in order to ascertain the number of enactments vulnerable to challenge on the grounds set out in the judgments of the courts in cases (details supplied)". Many issues arise from that question, including the discretion of the President in referring legislation to the Supreme Court before it is signed. Something...

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: This Bill is inadequate to meet the situation that exists in Irish society. Unfortunately, the ordinary citizen has serious concerns about how the financial, economic and political sections of the establishment behave. The Bill is supposed to provide for the establishment from time to time of commissions to investigate into and report on matters considered to be of significant public concern....

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: What this legislation proposes is inadequate from the point of view of ordinary working people and taxpayers. The members of the proposed commission of investigation will be the creatures of Ministers who will control the process from beginning to end. The commission is to be established by the Government but based on the proposals of a Minister with the approval of the Minister for Finance....