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Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----does he avert his gaze in embarrassment that he demands further cuts from them while rescuing European banks?

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is to save the skins of European speculators.

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is to save the European banks.

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with the British Prime Minister. [8290/11]

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if the British Prime Minister consults with him regarding the economic policies of the British Government as they impact on Northern Ireland. [8291/11]

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach understand my amazement that he told us he discussed the narrow issue of security with the British Prime Minister but not the devastating consequences of the cuts to social programmes and public services? Do the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister not understand that the social deprivation and misery in many working class areas in the North will be worsened considerably by...

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Billions in cuts. That is the reality.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Working from the executive summary of the commission of investigation into the banking sector, that is, the Nyberg report, does the Taoiseach agree it is rather unfortunate that sheer naked corporate greed was not identified as the major driving force that led to the insanity in the property market and the subsequent crash? Does the Taoiseach agree that the herd instinct and group-think to...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It actively opposed the control of building land and of speculation on building land when we proposed such a measure in this House.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach acknowledge that implicit in the report is a devastating indictment of how the financial markets systems work, which are driven exclusively by the herds of speculators in search of private greed? Does he acknowledge that when the report refers to the many investors, consultants, analysts, rating agencies and the media, which incidentally kept very quiet about this because...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----the Taoiseach states he is appalled, as though he were a letter writer to The Irish Times, who signs himself "Appalled from Castlebar". That is not good enough.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: What will the Taoiseach do in this regard? His Minister for Finance has stated that he would not do anything because there was a contract.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach end the humiliation of Irish taxpayers and people at the hands of the banking sector?

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Moreover, as the Taoiseach walked out of Downing Street yesterday without having the bottle to ask the British Prime Minister for a reduction in interest rates-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----for another bank loan that was made to save British banks, what hope can the people have that he represents anything different?

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Explain that.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should explain.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: I assure the Taoiseach I am not at all confused because I sat in this House for ten years while this insanity was going on and people like myself were referred to as contrarians in this report. The Taoiseach, however, was not a contrarian and nor was his party. Not once did it raise a voice of opposition to the level of profiteering in which developers and bankers were engaged on the backs...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----for example, porters, cleaners and teachers in private schools who are not paid by the State but whose employers receive part payment from the State. No institution has received more funds from the taxpayers, to the obscene degree that has happened, than have the banks. Is the Taoiseach telling me that he will allow the porter, the cleaner, the teacher and other equivalent employees to...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Six weeks that did not shake the world.