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Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: The two figureheads of that invasion, Messrs Bush and Blair, were responsible for that. If a group of aggrieved relatives of those tens of thousands of dead mounted an assault on Mr. Blair's luxury compound, wherever that might be, would the Taoiseach equally justify that-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----because the same logic would apply-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and they would no doubt argue-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----that they could not get justice in Britain? I put it to the Taoiseach that he has no mandate from the Irish people-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----for his support for this assassination, albeit of an utter reactionary. In my view, if there was a debate among the Irish people-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----while they would excoriate Osama, his likes and everything that he did as we have done and we did-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----to the US and Britain which supported these reactionary regimes, they would not agree with his position.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Justify why you support shoot-to-kill policies in some instances.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Withdraw your remark. You know very well-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----my position on reactionaries like al-Qaeda.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Withdraw your remark.

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I was supposed to lead the next Technical Group slot with a group of Deputies.

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to share equal time with Deputies Joan Collins, Seamus Healy, Tom Fleming, John Halligan and Richard Boyd Barrett.

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Deputy Ciarán Lynch referred to the fact that this is a home-purchasing nation. That is true. Some commentators in the past have responded to that as if it was something dramatically unusual that should be changed and that working people should put their lives and their need for shelter at the gentle mercies of landlords, which is another class about which we in this country know a lot...

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is very clear from the Government amendment, which offers no solutions either. It states more or less that the Government bailed out the banks. It gave tens of billions of euro to European bankers to pay off their gambling debts and now depends on what is called "lender forbearance". In other words, the banks should be kind towards the people they have got into such a crisis. That is...

Order of Business (5 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government made a statement yesterday that will have serious legislative implications. For the first time we heard that a utility charge to pay for the installation of water meters in each home will be introduced.

Order of Business (5 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is to do with legislation.

Order of Business (5 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes. Can the Tánaiste be precise and tell us the Government's legislative proposals with regard to the issue of a water tax? The Labour Party said it was opposed to it and that meters would be a waste of investment. Will the Tánaiste now renegue on all that and have a utility charge to add insult to the injury of taxation that is already being levied on people?

Order of Business (5 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is a complete negation of everything the Labour Party promised during the election.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: I had been scheduled to speak on this matter next week but events have moved forward somewhat.