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EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 29: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the emergency European Council Summit on 23 October 2011. [33034/11]

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach if the issue of changes to European Union treaties was discussed at the recent European Council Summit and his position on same. [33035/11]

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is entirely missing the point. The past two weeks show that the claim of the European Union leadership, that it constitutes one of the greatest zones of democracy and democratic rights in the world, has been shot to bits. The Taoiseach justified Monsieur Sarkozy and Frau Merkel summoning the Greek Prime Minister on the basis that the markets were going crazy.

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach not see the irony in that situation?

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: What is the Taoiseach's opinion on the financial markets having moved on and attempting to dictate to the Italian people who should form its Government? Has the Taoiseach seen that they ruthlessly ratcheted up the interest rates on Italy's bonds in order to pressurise Prime Minister Berlusconi and, on the rumour that he was about to resign, the markets dropped the interest rates and then put...

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why can the Taoiseach not get the point that ordinary people around Europe see that the Taoiseach is capitulating to what is effectively an economic dictatorship of the markets? Does the Taoiseach agree that he himself contributed to this assault on democratic rights by joining with Merkel, Sarkozy and the rest of them and capitulating to what is, after all, an assorted bunch of chancers,...

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that this new jargon of "firewalls" and "contagion" is reminiscent of US generals' use of language to mask reality? For example, they used the term "collateral damage" to cover up the incineration of innocent civilians. Jargon is being used to mask the reality of this stranglehold that the Taoiseach is giving these financial market players. "Contagion" simply means...

EU Summits (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will leave a burned-out landscape behind him.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Now that the presidential election and Dublin West by-election are over, can the Taoiseach be more candid with us about the timescale for the local government (charges) Bill, which provides for the introduction of a new household tax that will affect an already over-burdened tax-paying public? Can he tell me the proposed schedule? The budget statement will be made four weeks from today....

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: On the timeline-----

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: I know; I am not having a debate.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach referred to a general timeline in regard to the budget. Can I ask him for the timeline for the Bill to which I referred?

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes, but he was not-----

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: When will it be introduced and when will it be completed? On presidential inaugurations, I have spent my life trying to pull down useless institutions, not attend celebrations of them.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: He does not recommend it.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is the person who has been elected, not him.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach vary the business of the House this morning to allow a motion to be put before the Dáil calling on the Israeli authorities to immediately release 14 of our citizens-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----who were kidnapped by the Israelis in international waters bringing aid to the imprisoned people of Gaza?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The embassy staff are doing their best but where is the political outrage from the Irish Government-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----about this highly illegal act of kidnapping citizens while embarked on a peaceful mission?