Results 81-100 of 3,438 for speaker:Joe Higgins in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection Commissioner Appointment (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 288. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the appointment of the new Data Protection Commissioner. [35187/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Access (24 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if translation and interpretation services were available to the case of the migrant rape victim known as 'Miss Y' at all stages of her interaction with State services. [35386/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make immediate improvements to the living conditions and standards in direct provision hostels for those seeking asylum in the State; if she favours ending the system of direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35387/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Ombudsman (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the six-year time limit for complaints to the Financial Services Ombudsman about life insurance and life assurance policies, given the long terms of these products. [34880/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to prohibit life insurance and assurance providers dramatically raising premia when a customer is older as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34881/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will intervene to return the collection of waste in the Dublin City Council area to the council when contracts are due for renewal next month; and if he will make a statement on any breaches of by-laws and failure to collect waste the private operators. [34328/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 43. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will overrule the four Dublin local authority chief executives' decision to proceed with the Poolbeg incinerator in view of its rejection by elected members of Dublin City Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34327/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will revise the back to education allowance scheme regulations so that the requirement of 234 days receiving welfare payments for the third level option and 78 days for the second level option does not act as a barrier to gaining access to training and education. [33746/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Air Displays (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 536. To ask the Minister for Defence when his attention was drawn to plans to have a military air display by the United States military in Dublin on 30 August 2014; and the role his Department and the Defence Forces played in facilitating this display. [34055/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 650. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders issued to citizens of states to which the State will not return people; and if she will provide a breakdown of the figures for each state for the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 and for each state. [34073/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hepatitis C Incidence (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 925. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the National Hepatitis C strategy; and the steps he has taken to ensure adequate funding and staffing required [33509/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether a military air display from the United States military is appropriate for any sporting event; the role his Department played in granting permission for this air display over Croke Park, Dublin, on 30 August 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34054/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the decision to permit the entry of the United States military to the State's airspace on 30 August 2014 for the purposes of an air display at a sporting event compromises the Government's position of military non-alignment. [34056/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken by his Department to provide assistance to a person (details supplied) an Irish citizen detained in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33050/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the latest position of a person (details supplied) who is detained in Egypt; and the efforts that his Department has made to seek their release. [33510/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position regarding prisoners' rights and freedom of expression and protest in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33051/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens that are registered in the citizens' registration system; the number in each country; and, if possible, to distinguish between those identified as being resident abroad and those on short-term trips. [33382/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports that were issued to citizens resident outside the State in the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and the states in which they were resident and in the figure for the United Kingdom to distinguish Northern Ireland from the overall UK figure. [33383/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the granting of extra free water usage allowance to those with inflammatory bowel disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33745/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed reduction by the trustees of the Irish aviation superannuation scheme of the defined benefit payments to pensioners beginning on 1 January 2015; his views that the employers should make a payment to IASS to ensure such a reduction in payments does not take place; and if he will make a statement on...