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European Council: Statements (2 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Dictatorship.

European Council: Statements (2 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Dictatorship of the markets.

European Council: Statements (2 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Can the Taoiseach address the contradiction between democracy and the dictatorship of the markets?

European Council: Statements (2 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach can do better than that.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will it ever dawn on the Tánaiste that the Government's programme of savage austerity, far from creating jobs and recovery, will plunge our society into ever deeper economic crisis? Is this not clear to the Tánaiste given the shortfall of €383 million in VAT to date reflecting a stagnation in retail sales and services and as a result of the savage austerity that the Government continues...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste slavishly submits to the diktats of the financial markets and those faceless institutions that hold the lives of tens and hundreds of millions of Europeans in their grip. The Tánaiste has no word of opposition to say or an alternative to put.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will it ever dawn on the Tánaiste that capitalism is in a systemic crisis at this time and it will not find a way out? Major private conglomerates are on a strike of capital. Only by a complete change of policy and particularly by major public investment in infrastructure and services can we recreate and rebuild our economy, recreate the tens of thousands of jobs needed and put people back...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: If the Labour Party does not bring such an alternative, should it not merge into the grey mass that surrounds it on the Government benches rather than pretend there is something distinct anymore called the Irish Labour Party?

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Obviously since they are being denied any impact whatsoever on Government policy, the only way the Labour Party backbenchers can find their voice is by clamour in the Parliament.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: In case the Tánaiste did not hear me, I stated precisely that the country should not take the road Greece has taken. That is the point I made.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: This is because the road the Tánaiste's colleague, Mr. Papandreou, has taken, and New Democracy before him, during the past two years has been a disaster. That is clear and the suffering of the Greek people is testament to it. The policy of austerity is ruining Greece and its people. The Tánaiste says one cannot spend what one does not have. But apparently the Labour Party and Fine Gael...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: What did Connolly do, having found the European people confronted with the looming catastrophe of the First World War and abandoned by virtually all, even the social democratic parties which slavishly followed their imperialist masters supporting the war? He stood boldly out and called for mass resistance and an alternative. He said we should resist until the last capitalist bond and...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----there are non-socialist economists who carry great authority in economic circles such as Nourieal Roubini, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and others. They all now say categorically that continuing the programme of austerity is a disaster. Will the Government learn the lessons from Greece and fundamentally abandon the disastrous policy-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----of salvaging the living standards of working class people, pensioners and the poor and embark on an alternative policy of public investment, massive job creation and the re-creation of our economy?

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: I shook hands with him in the depths of the night in Citywest

Cabinet Sub-Committees (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the schedule of the Cabinet sub-committee on Health. [29816/11]

Cabinet Sub-Committees (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach restate the purpose of the Cabinet sub-committee on health? Will he indicate the effect the work of the sub-committee will have in the delivery of comprehensive health services during the coming 12 months? Does the sub-committee consider, for example, what will be the impact on the health service in general, and hospital services in particular, of the €2.2 billion in...

Cabinet Sub-Committees (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Are matters of this nature, including the disastrous cuts to which I refer, brought to the attention of the sub-committee? Does it take a view on such matters? Does it inform the HSE that what is happening is disgraceful or does it state cuts must be made because the Government must continue paying billions to gambling bondholders?

Cabinet Sub-Committees (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should start the ball rolling in this matter by banning the advertisement of alcohol.

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 28: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all contacts he had with heads of State of the EU or Government in the past week. [33033/11]