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Written Answers — Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency (10 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to merge the Power of One and the Change.ie websites in view of the cost of maintaining both; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4560/09]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position of an application for a working visa from a person (details supplied). [4312/09]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (10 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 636: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the representations which have been made to his Department, giving details of a wide range of activities that are to the advantage of disadvantaged pupils, he will consider the application from the chairman and principal teacher of a school (details supplied) in County Galway, for reconsideration and inclusion in the...

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money estimated, allocated, owing or spent by the Government on the purchase of carbon credits in respect of Kyoto Protocol commitments for the year 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3922/09]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 49: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding notification he has received from the Environmental Protection Agency indicating the amount of carbon emitted here for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3923/09]

Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: They are not necessarily required to pay all the moneys owed.

Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: The status is not a limitation on the right.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Why did the Minister make no reference in his speech to curtailing the interest paid on mortgages to landlords which would have had a yield of more than €500 million? Why did he not make reference to bespoke pension schemes for directors? Why did the Minister make so little reference to liquidity issues? Taking his point on the Swedish reference, including the wide guarantee...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: When?

Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I wish to ask about the education (patronage) Bill which is listed as changing the powers of the Vocational Education Committees so as to enable them to enter into arrangements for the establishment of management of schools including Educate Together schools and so forth. Will the legislation accommodate transitional arrangements to be made to handle the emergence of new schools as the...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Recruitment: Defence Forces Recruitment (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the proposed awareness and recruitment campaign for the Reserve Defence Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3502/09]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in regard the budget 2009 announcement of the decision to close a number of Defence Forces barracks and military posts, he will list those closed at present; the estimated value of each such site, including buildings; if each such premises has been vacated; the manner in which it is intended to dispose of each site; and if he will make a...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I welcome the opportunity of contributing to the debate, even if I am confined to five minutes. I find this process entirely unsatisfactory for analysing the position in which we find ourselves in the economy and any strategy we might adopt. I support the remarks just made by Deputy Howlin on overseas development aid. We have moved from a commitment to provide 0.55% of GNP two years ago to...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: ——be it as a nurse or a garda. It is with great sadness I say Fianna Fáil, the party which used its old clientele system to put so many of them in place, is the one leading the attack on the concept of the public service worker.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Regarding proposals for an extension of the tax base, the old prayer we heard from the Government was that it would let the Commission on Taxation come up with proposals and that then it would be moved to act on the super-rich. Where are the proposals from the Government which knows the people concerned very well? It knows the people who approached the former Minister, Charlie McCreevy,...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: The characteristic of the Labour Party amendment we have circulated emphasises the importance of employment, job protection and creation. This is the choice facing people on the right and the left in politics. Does the Government state to somebody who is providing care that he or she is drawing a social welfare payment to which he or she is not entitled or does it state he or she is a worker...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: We were against a blind guarantee.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Rightly so.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: The Government still does not know that for which it has given half the National Pensions Reserve Fund.