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- Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----will create thousands of jobs is cloud cuckoo land.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish to ask a question, a Cheann Comhairle. Will the Minister be more precise about the timing of this legislation? He has been shouting about it from the rooftops for some time and apparently considers it very urgent. Let us have a firm time-scale for it. We learned this morning that the Irish ship MV Saoirse has been sabotaged in a Turkish port by agents acting for the Israeli...
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----thus preventing it from bringing aid to the imprisoned people of Gaza.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister call in the Israeli ambassador and demand an explanation for this?
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the implementation to date of the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18576/11]
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: In the programme for Government there is a commitment to a major undertaking to secure burden sharing on an equitable basis, meaning speculating banks should take losses incurred in property gambling, rather than inflicting them on taxpayers. There is a further promise to secure a reduction in the penal and opportunistic interest rates charged by the European Union as part of the programme...
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Has the Government determined the effect of the delays in implementation of the stated programme with regard to the estimated cost to the taxpayer?
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Indentured labour.
- Croke Park Agreement (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Croke Park Implementation Body and any arrangements made to meet with the leaders of the public sector trade unions. [18577/11]
- Croke Park Agreement (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach admit that the Croke Park agreement is nothing more than a cover for crudely cutting thousands of jobs in the public sector despite an OECD report which shows the Irish public sector to be far more modest than those in many more successful countries in Europe? The end result is now being felt in the drastic cuts being proposed in education, in terms of schools, the health...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to his stated view that senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society should have substantial losses imposed on them, if he discussed this question with US Secretary Treasury Geithner, the European Central bank and the EU; and if he will report on any such discussions. [18996/11]
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Minister agree that ordinary people and taxpayers will find it beyond belief that he did not discuss this issue with the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Geithner, who, we believe, vetoed the burning of tens of billions of bondholders' bad gambling debts at a G7 meeting and therefore was directly responsible for contributing at any rate to have that burden continued on...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Minister agree he was posturing big time in Washington?
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: I beg your pardon, a Chathaoirligh, it is a question.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is not up to the Chair to try to censor a Member of the Dáil from getting more information from the Minister for Finance.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: I would have finished by now.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: You should not try to distract us from questioning the Minister for Finance.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Was the Minister's bold statement in Washington that he wanted the bondholders burned related to the fact that the following day was a press occasion for the Government on its first 100 days in office? When the Minister found himself in Washington, was he rather like the brave schoolboy smoking behind the shed, bragging against the teacher and talking big, but then when he faced the...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why did the Minister not discuss the issue of the bondholders with the US Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Geithner?
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)
Joe Higgins: Could the Minister not have asked him the simple question as to whether he vetoed the writing off of bad gambling debts to bondholders and therefore placed them on the Irish taxpayers' shoulders?