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Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It is better than withering on the vine.

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the appointment of a new chief executive for the Equality Authority; when he expects an appointment to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21478/09]

Written Answers — Drugs Seizures: Drugs Seizures (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the quantity and values of seizures of heroin, cocaine, cannabis, and other drugs here during 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; the proportion of the overall flow of drugs into Ireland which is believed to be represented by these seizures; the new initiatives he is planning to control the flow of illegal drugs into Ireland;...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the rationale underpinning cuts to the library services; the consequences of these actions; and if he will seek to ensure that these cuts are reversed as well as to ensure that local authorities will be asked to ring-fence these necessary library services. [21698/09]

Work Permits (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: The matter I raise on the Adjournment concerns the urgent need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to reconsider changes she proposes to make to the work permit scheme on 1 June, the need for her to discuss with the relevant workers such proposals and the need for such workers, their unions and the advocacy organisations to be invited to participate in a consultation process...

Work Permits (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Will the Minister of State agree to postpone?

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a specific and important matter of public interest that requires urgent consideration, namely, the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to reconsider the changes she is proposing to make in the work permit scheme and to discuss any such proposals with the relevant workers; the need for...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will respond to the Commission on Taxi Regulations submission on long-standing proposals to take over responsibility for the issuing of small public service vehicle driver licences from An Garda Sióchána; if he will confirm, if a ban on the recruitment of new staff is the reason this reform of the taxi licensing system has been...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport if his recently expressed personal support for phase two and three of the western rail corridor means that the full western rail corridor project will proceed on deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21269/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from persons involved in the ECCE scheme; the views expressed in this regard that the proposed operation of this scheme will be inoperable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21378/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the proposed ECCE scheme, she agrees with persons working in the area who feel that fixing the fee at €64.50 per child per week is equivalent to price fixing in the industry and in that regard may be open to legal challenge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21379/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the way the fee of €64.50 was reached in relation to the ECCE scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21381/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the ECCE scheme, in its attempt to extend the pre-school year by two weeks beyond that required by primary schools, is unacceptable for two reasons, namely as discrimination to require pre-school montessori teachers to work a longer school year than that which is required by national school teachers, at a reduced...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to incidents whereby persons receiving jobseeker's benefit, who have been offered temporary work for a number of weeks and which holds some prospect of possible long-term employment, are unwilling to take the short-term position since the person would then have to, for the sake of a short period...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to incidents whereby employers seeking to offer short-term work to persons receiving jobseeker's benefit, but who have not been successful in this due to the persons in question being unwilling to withdraw temporarily from the social welfare system, have contacted her Department to seek...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 321: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, particularly in view of the current economic difficulties, it is proposed to simplify and streamline the bureaucratic transition from receiving jobseeker's allowance to temporary paid employment and back; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21078/09]

Leaders' Questions (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Why too did Secretaries General?

Order of Business (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It is just ten years and one week since former Minister for Education, the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, announced helpfully that he had appointed a senior archivist to the Department of Education because all the files accompanying the Kennedy report, except the Daingean file, had gone missing. I was spokesperson on education for the Labour Party at the time. The Daingean file was the...

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: On the same matter-----

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I will not refer to an individual but to the same substantive matter. I propose that the debate on the report be structured to take account of related reports, including the examinations of the prison system into which many of the victims went. I was a member of the MacBride commission, which interviewed some of these casualties. They were afraid to come forward at that time. The debate...