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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]

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?

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 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...

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]

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...

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...

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent contacts with SIPTU regarding strike action at the airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/04]

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

Joe Higgins: Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland will sign up as a contracting party to the ADR agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12449/04]

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...

Northern Ireland Issues. (25 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15382/04]

Northern Ireland Issues. (25 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [15383/04]

Northern Ireland Issues. (25 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach discuss the situation in Iraq with the British Prime Minister? Did the Prime Minister throw any light on the disaster that has followed the invasion of Iraq of which he was a prime mover? Did the British Prime Minister apologise to the Taoiseach for misleading him and his Government in claims he made to justify the invasion of Iraq on the definite presence of weapons of mass...