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Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I have just given the Taoiseach ideas.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: We know that. The Government will leave people to the mercy of the banks.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Then take the albatross from around their necks.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: More lifestyle choices. It is now a lifestyle choice not to pay one's mortgage, I suppose.

Social Partnership (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent contacts with trade union and employers bodies. [24430/11]

Social Partnership (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I put it to the Taoiseach that it is a sham to pretend there is such a thing as ongoing partnership between the Government and the trade union movement in current circumstances, when the Government accedes to the diktats of the EU, IMF and ECB with regard to a range of issues which have detrimental effects on the lives and living standards of working people, including those represented by...

Social Partnership (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach stated that trade union leaders are available for consultation. Is it not the case that they are available to be dictated to?

Social Partnership (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Unfortunately, they are allowing themselves to be dictated to at great cost to their members who suffer the consequences of the austerity being imposed by Government. How can the Taoiseach say the Government is open to real dialogue with the trade union movement when, for example, members of the INMO and SIPTU were forced to take strike action against grotesque overcrowding and danger to...

Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the further referenda he plans in this Dáil term; and if a referendum is planned on the abolition of the Seanad. [26987/11]

Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I ask the Taoiseach to clarify whether he said it will be a referendum to abolish the Seanad or to reform the Seanad.

Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Thank you. That elitist institution which is undemocratically elected should obviously be gone. Has the Taoiseach any proposal during his term of office to deal with the proposals in the Constitution regarding the election of President? It is highly undemocratic that citizens may only stand for election as President if they have been vetted by the political establishment or a bunch of...

Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Should the Taoiseach also have a proposal to abolish that institution-----

Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----especially in view of the farce that passes for a presidential campaign, with half a million people unemployed and our hospitals in shreds and the media filled with a personality fest known as a presidential campaign? What are the Taoiseach's proposals regarding either abolition or at least democratising the office? Does the Taoiseach accept that in outlining fairly precise figures for...

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: What proposals has the Taoiseach for a discussion next week on the inter-departmental report on distressed mortgages, chaired by Mr. Declan Keane? Does the Taoiseach have a precise timetable for the publication of the local government (charges) Bill? Does he have a precise timetable for the water services (amendment) Bill? Will it include the setting up of Irish Water?

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Is there a date?

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will it be after the by-election in Dublin West?

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: It will have to be extended until 27 October.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his planned meeting with the President of the European Commission. [29813/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the postponement of the European Council summit originally scheduled for 17 and 18 October 2011. [29815/11]

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: I blush to think Aviva workers might be looking to us with hope that we might rescue their jobs. On a different issue, is the Taoiseach ashamed to stand in the Dáil the morning after his Minister for Finance crushed the hopes of 300,000 mortgage holders? These mortgage holders, the majority of whom are ordinary people with partners and families, are swamped by negative equity and monthly...