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- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----by bringing a separate measure but the Government wanted to bring in the reactionary and regressive measure of increasing the pension age under a flag of convenience so that the Minister could hammer those Opposition Members who oppose it by pretending-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----to say we are also opposing the restoration of the minimum wage. Her intentions are obvious and we should move on.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Rubbish.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Who believes that?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: If all the food is going to feed hungry bankers in Europe, there will not be anything left.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the costs to the State of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II of England and the President of the USA. [16010/11]
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on which Cabinet sub committees have met since they were established; and the number of meetings in each case. [15350/11]
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: What are the roles and functions of the sub-committees as they have operated since they were set up by Taoiseach? With regard to economic recovery and job creation, will the Taoiseach inform the House if he has a new strategy to try to address the critical problem of mass unemployment which clearly will hardly be touched by the jobs initiative which was scaled down from a major jobs budget?
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: There are now nine Cabinet sub-committees, four of which deal with economic issues, from the economic management council to economic infrastructure and so on. It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach has not set a target for job creation and a reduction in the number of unemployed if, as he has said he is putting such emphasis on economic issues in Cabinet sub-committees.
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the costs to his Department for the visits to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II and the President of the USA. [15351/11]
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the total costs to the State of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II of England and the President of the USA. [15352/11]
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach forgot to answer Question No. 15.
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: In fairness, four weeks after the events, I think the Taoiseach should have a good estimate to report to Dáil Ãireann. The costs for his own Department are relatively small compared with what the overall national cost will be. I want to hear the Taoiseach's current estimate of the overall national cost. I am sure he has inquired about that and has been told. With regard to the US...
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: We might be talking about tens of millions of euro, so I hope the Taoiseach will give Members an estimate. Parents and children throughout the country are getting word that their special needs assistants in schools are being disgracefully cut. We had parents at the gates of Leinster House today in great distress-----
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----because their children are losing special needs assistants.
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: How does the Taoiseach justify this huge cost of the recent State visits while making those disgraceful cuts at the same time?
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: I must correct the Taoiseach again because he has made a false allegation or statement. I am not an Independent Deputy. I am a member of the Socialist Party and the United Left Alliance.
- State Visits (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: In the same way as the Taoiseach must account for his party leader's account, so do I. It must be audited and then goes to the Department of Finance.
- Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Only four weeks remain after this week is over and to follow on from Deputy Martin's comments, will the Taoiseach agree that Members should have a major debate on what is the Government's policy with regard to the financial crisis? When the Minister for Finance goes to Washington, in other words, far away from Frankfurt and Brussels, he acts like the lads behind the shed who are smoking and...
- Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Could we have a fairly lengthy discussion in which the Government would outline its policy exactly and then allow Members to ask specific questions?