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Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I wonder if the Minister will arrange meetings at Dublin Airport between these few dozen high flyers she is bringing in and the thousands of our own brightest and best who are being forced out of the country by her Government's insane austerity policies. Are there any further amendments from the Government on job creation that we do not yet know about? I ask this in light of the Minister for...

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: When will we have legislation, or possibly an amendment to the Finance Bill 2012, to provide the 100,000 real jobs that the Government parties promised before the general election?

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have a related question for you people later.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Taoiseach, was it Deputy Enda Kenny who talked in Dáil Éireann on 2 February 1994, the same Deputy Kenny who is now Prime Minister-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----about ramming household and related taxes through? Are Fine Gael Deputies bringing to his attention the growing anger of ordinary people right around this country that after three and half years of having the salvaging of the European financial market system placed on their shoulders, he is now placing further burdens on them that they know will be a €1,000 and beyond in home tax,...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach not see that the ordinary people understand, even if condescending political pundits and the editorial writers in the billionaire press do not understand-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----that, apart from not being able to bear any more burdens themselves, the Taoiseach's austerity and the troika's austerity is bleeding our society and the economy dry-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----and that the mass boycott, which the household and other new taxes are now facing is a demand for a fundamental change in policy?

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: The boycott and the mass non-registration and mass refusal to pay these taxes that the Taoiseach will face by St. Patrick's Day is the ordinary people's self-made referendum on the Taoiseach's austerity policy.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Are the Labour Deputies reminding the Taoiseach of its party's very expensive ads in the national newspapers during the election campaign, namely, "Fine Gael - Every Little Hurts" and outlining the burdens to which they object that are less even than the household tax?

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Are they bringing this to the Taoiseach's attention? Can I ask him if they are all-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----out of touch?

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach understand that he now faces a mass movement of opposition? He has an opportunity to change course and he must do that.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: You tell the 500,000 people out there-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----in the enforced idleness of the dole and those who are having their living standards savaged that you are not enforcing austerity. Get real, Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: You say that we say we do not want-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----people to pay anything for anything. On the contrary, Taoiseach, it is the big bulk of the ordinary 4.5 million in this State who are paying for everything, including not only our services here but the bail outs of the vulture financial institutions in the European financial markets and their bad gambles. That is what we are paying for and that is what we object to. The Taoiseach says...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have news for the Taoiseach, the social democratic and labour parties all over Europe have long since joined the capitalist establishment.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: They do not speak for the working class any more.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Can I ask the Taoiseach-----