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Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Workers now under 50 are being condemned-----

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----to stay at work until they are 68.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: I am explaining, as I am entitled to under Standing Orders, why the measure should be opposed. The Minister for Social Protection is rapidly becoming a misnomer as she is proposing the opposite of social protection. She was a forlorn figure in the Dáil without a single backbencher, particularly from her own party, to support her.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Two or three of them mustered the courage to come in not to defend the reaction measures but to mutter some words about an internship which they thought they might be safe in doing. Otherwise they were not seen. They should have the opportunity on Report Stage to explain why workers will be forced to work until they are almost 70 while they are bailing out the European bankers and...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister for public expenditure is quoted this morning as having threatened public sector workers with a continuation of the pay cuts that have been imposed. This is apparently their reward for achieving €600 million in savings.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Can the Tánaiste tell us when that Minister will be accountable to the Dáil? When will he come in here and answer questions on this and other serious issues?

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why?

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is to do with the ordering of business in the Dáil.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: My-----

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: No. I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. It has to do with the ordering of business in the Dáil-----

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----which is entirely in order under Standing Orders.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: We have been promised that the Minister for public expenditure will be accountable. When will it happen?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Aontaím leis an méid atá ráite. Is é a deir alt 7 de Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003: A luaithe is féidir tar éis aon Acht den Oireachtas a achtú, déanfar an téacs den chéanna a chló agus a fhoilsiú go comhuaineach i ngach ceann de na teangacha oifigiúla. An deabhadh atá orm ná go bhfuil an EU agus an IMF ag rá go gcaithfear an rud seo a bhualadh tríd an Dáil gan...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could we have a translation into English of what the Minister just said?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to protest about the way this legislation is being dealt with. It is unacceptable that we have just voted on the Second Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill and we are immediately onto Report Stage. Having glanced at the national newspapers this morning, tens of thousands of workers will learn for the first time about these serious changes to their pension rights in two and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: I accept that but it is proper to draw attention to the fact that many Members on the backbenches have now received feedback from their constituents and would have voted in a different way. The Minister should have separated the restoration of the national minimum wage and other issues she mentioned, which could have been expedited quickly, so we could have a separate mechanism for dealing...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: On a point of order, I am not sure which amendment was being addressed by the Minister.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister was going completely off the wall with a diversionary tactic.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: We noted that the restoration of the minimum wage could have already been done through the Dáil.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: It could have been done in an hour-----