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Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: We want to encourage everyone to have their say but newer Members should not attempt to silence those of us who have been here previously.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Labour Party will have a great dealt to worry about when working class people realise what it is up to.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste be much more precise with regard to the timetable he envisages in respect of this matter, including that part of it which relates to legislative issues? Will he correct the misleading impression that this sale has something to do with job creation when the EU-IMF deal provides that the money will disappear into the black hole that is European bankers' debts?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It should not even be on the agenda.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wonder what the great James Connolly would think of this.

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: As a starting point for this debate, does the Taoiseach candidly admit that Fine Gael and the Labour Party were as guilty of cronyism as Fianna Fáil with regard to the manner in which, over decades, they appointed-----

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----people to public boards? Does he agree that - I will not use the unkind word "hacks" - the latter were activists of the political parties? If the Taoiseach is serious with regard to the new system he proposes, why did the Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food rush to make appointments to and to promote people within Bord na gCon? Rather than the somewhat narrow process he...

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why not?

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach state that on its rising today the Dáil shall adjourn until 1.30 p.m. tomorrow?

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could we have an explanation from the Taoiseach?

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: When the Taoiseach visits Arbour Hill tomorrow, perhaps he will reflect on what great people such as James Connolly might think about the Government saddling our people with the debts of foreign bankers.

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: In today's Irish Independent, a senior Government source is quoted as stating categorically that flat-rate water charges will be introduced in 2012 and that these are part of the EU-IMF deal. There is reference to households being obliged to pay €175 per annum in this regard. Is it the Government's intention to bring legislation before the House to impose this new burden on working people...

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: On principle, I do not stand shoulder to shoulder with people who have sold out the working class. It would be an insult to the memory of James Connolly to stand beside the Taoiseach and his colleagues. That is why I am not attending.

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: I consider it of no importance that the Taoiseach is attending.

Accident and Emergency Services (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: In recent times serious concern has been expressed by the local community and staff members about aspects of the service provided by Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. There have been consistent cutbacks in funding to the hospital in recent years as there have been to other hospitals. There have been suggestions that one emergency department of the three in the north Dublin area would be...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: The editorial in The Irish Times yesterday stated, "The US special forces team was under orders not to take him [Osama bin Laden] alive, as confirmed by a US national security official to Reuters." We now know he was shot dead unarmed. The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Labour Party and presidents of the EU Commission and Council, all...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach not consider therefore that this assassination was no more than a naked political stunt to project military and political power which was-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: ------slipping away from the US because of the actions of the Arab people? I want the Taoiseach to justify his stand.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Thousands of people have been murdered by reactionary terrorists. I suggest to the Taoiseach that the answer to this is not to do likewise and use their methods. In 2003, the Taoiseach stated that under international law and order the war in Iraq was wrong, unjust and unnecessary. Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis were killed.