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Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Minister think the landlords will not pass it on to the tenants?

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is shameful. It is the intimidation of decent taxpayers.

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: He will not go after the bondholders but he will go after decent taxpayers. It is shameful.

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: By Jesus, the Minister will follow them to the grave.

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is a new construction on grave robbing.

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Another tax on the poor.

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: What about when property does not go up and people boycott it? What will happen to the local authorities?

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should not worry as we had no choice. It is €160 million from households while the Government gives €3 billion to the Anglo Irish Bank bondholders and banks. That is to put it in context.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: When will Report Stage of the Water Services (Amendment) Bill come before the Dáil? Why was it withdrawn this week? Does it indicate that the Government is rethinking the injustice of putting a new stealth tax on people in rural Ireland who were not able to be part of urban drainage schemes which were set up with public funds? It is placing an extra burden on people.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: We are not happy with the guillotine on the Local Government (Household Charge) Bill. Will the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: We are unhappy with the other guillotine-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could I ask the Taoiseach to be forthcoming on the real agenda and purpose of the economic management council? The membership is the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, who are the leaders of the Fine Gael and Labour parties, respectively, the Minister for Finance from the Fine Gael Party and the alternate Minister for Finance from the Labour Party. Is...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----to dictate to the Cabinet the diktats from the IMF-EU, particularly in regard to austerity, to maintain the bondholders and bankers of Europe, which, in turn, are dictated to the hapless backbenchers of both parties?

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I have asked two questions.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Perhaps this is an Irish version of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse doling out not so much war and pestilence, but savage austerity for our people. I refer to Cabinet confidentiality as it applies to the economic management council. The original four horsemen of mythology came out of a book of scrolls sealed with seven seals, perhaps in anticipation of Cabinet confidentiality. How can...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Government is riding roughshod over the Irish people. That is why the reference is appropriate.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why the secrecy?

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: What is the secrecy about?

Programme for Government (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: This is the third time the Taoiseach has raised this argument.

European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Government is killing it with austerity.