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- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Keane report wants us to be scandalised that writing down rip-off mortgages would amount to â¬14 billion but the Taoiseach does not even blush when he proposes to gouge the Irish people for at least â¬47 billion in interest and principal between now and 2031 to compensate the private gamblers in Anglo Irish Bank alone. Negative equity and extortionate monthly payments are a millstone...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: According to the Taoiseach, it is a leap of madness to say that hundreds of thousands of our people should be bailed out from blackmail mortgages that were gouged from them by speculators and developers with the consent of the regulator and the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: When I was in here for ten years, the current Taoiseach was silent on the madness that was going on in the property market.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: He never opposed the blackmail our people were being forced into, as it was happening before his eyes.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Apparently, it is a leap of madness that these people should be free from their debt and the economy should be freed up. Rather than paying the bulk of their incomes to the banks, these people should be free to spend their money on services in a way that would create tens of thousands of desperately needed new jobs. The Taoiseach thinks that is a leap of madness, but he does not think it is...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why were they not included on the committee?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why did it not hear from New Beginning, which has a radical approach to this issue?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why did it not bring in representatives of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service so that when the report came out, it was informed by the real world rather than by the agenda of bankers?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach spoke about Saul on the road to Damascus.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish someone would knock this Government off its horse so it could get an insight into what would really free our people from the horrible purgatory of debt.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: In the process, it would help to regenerate and remake our economy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is time to change course.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Austerity is a disaster.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The taxes that pay for those things will be down as long as have a depressed economy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: They are not heard in the report.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: For heaven's sake, that is outrageous.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Where is the army of those who are choosing not to pay?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is the undeserving poor all over again.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is like the Tories.
- Order of Business (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I welcome any informed debate on the budgetary process but not the manipulation of that to hide from the people before the Dublin West by-election and the presidential election the real truth of the savage cuts the Taoiseach is promising. He promised, and the Minister for Finance promised earlier, that this would be published in October. I ask the Taoiseach to publish now and to bring...