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EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussion with European leaders over the summer on the crisis in the European financial markets. [24425/11]

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach just stated that Mr. Trichet, who is the President of the European Central Bank, told the Minister for Finance he would not contemplate the burning of the bondholders and specifically that the €3.5 billion to be paid to unsecured Anglo Irish Bank bondholders by the end of June had to be paid. What is the point of the Taoiseach going to EU summits if it is not the political...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The point is that there would be no need for tens of billions of ECB funding if the policy of the predecessor Government now being followed and implemented by the Taoiseach-----

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----had not been to guarantee €80 billion or €90 billion of gamblers debts. That is the point. Does the Taoiseach realise what he is saying?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach stated in opposition to my demanding the non-payment of the €3.5 billion, which the Minister, Deputy Noonan, stated should not be paid, that we should look at what happened when there was a threat that this might happen in Greece. What happened? The sharks in the financial markets ratcheted up interest rates for Italy and Spain and terrorised the political leaders of Europe...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: And the vultures.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Unemployment went up.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: No. Before agreeing that No. 10, Supplementary Estimate for Public Services [Vote 42], should be taken without debate, will the Taoiseach give the House an assurance in regard to Ms Teresa Treacy of Clonmore, County Offaly, who is in Mountyjoy jail at the behest of a powerful semi-State company, the ESB? This is totally inappropriate when there is an alternative. Will the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is a question of whether or not it is done without debate. If there is a debate on a Supplementary Estimate regarding public bodies, this is an issue that should be discussed.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: In the interests of a just way-----

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----there is another possibility.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I just wish to put it to the Taoiseach that there is a very reasonable alternative, that the lines are put underground which is more environmentally friendly. Will he not intervene to ensure that this poor woman is released from prison?

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I await a reply from the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is very objectionable that the Government begins this new autumn session in the same way as it went about its business during the first session of this new Dáil, with guillotines virtually every day. The same parties when in opposition were highly vociferous for many years against the Fianna Fáil Administration, for the same type of guillotines. What has changed?

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: There is a different way of doing this. The Taoiseach did not even ask to see how many speakers might wish to contribute to a particular Bill and then make an estimate on that basis. He has proposed the blunt weapon of the guillotine and it is not acceptable. This is another bailout on the backs of ordinary people for the machinations of the sharks in insurance and high finance and it...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: When sheep lead, we speak up for working people. I do not take being Cassius lightly.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach announced a by-election in Dublin West on 27 October, which means the writ needs to be moved and ministerial orders made. I notice today with some alarm that the poles are rapidly filling up with posters of the growing list of presidential wannabees, which might indicate that in Dublin West there will be no space for the peasants if the Taoiseach delays.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Government move the writ and put the process in place this week? Laochra Fáil can do it but they seem to be a little hesitant at the moment. Perhaps they will announce their intentions here but the people of Dublin West are anxious to begin the debate.

Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The trauma continues for tens of thousands of homeowners who, with their families, comprise some hundreds of thousands of ordinary people whose homes are exploding in slow motion, but relentlessly so, because of pyrite-induced heaving emanating from contamination of underfloor infill. It is especially acute in west Dublin, north Dublin, Meath, Kildare and some other areas. Since I raised...

Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Who will make up the panel? Will the affected homeowners have direct representation on it? What is its timeframe - it must be very short - and will the Government compel Homebond to meets its responsibilities? Due to the huge worry that exists, will the Taoiseach set up an immediate State remediation scheme to provide testing and remediation to resolve the worries of homeowners and to...