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Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach vary the business of the House now?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is in the hands of the Taoiseach to vary the business of the House, as the Ceann Comhairle well knows. Where is the Labour Party-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why is the Taoiseach not-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, may I raise a point of order?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: With respect, the Taoiseach is in charge of the business of the Dáil and he can vary that business to take a motion-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle did not even ask him to respond to our requests.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes, but we asked him to vary the business to allow a motion proposing the release of 14 of our citizens to be entertained immediately here. The Ceann Comhairle did not ask him to respond to that.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Would the Taoiseach like to reply?

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Government is subjected to humiliation by the banks and the response of the Taoiseach is to make a telephone call to another banker to see what he should do. I wish to call a different humiliation to the Tánaiste's attention, however. Last Friday, a foreign state, Israel, jailed 14 Irish citizens who were snatched from international waters while bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. The...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: I reiterate that the public sector workers in the embassy are doing their job but the Tánaiste has not done his job.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste gives the impression these 14 citizens could have been out of Israel in a matter of hours if they had signed an innocuous document. They were asked to sign a document stating they had illegally entered Israel. They could not sign that statement because it would be a lie.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: It was a lie. Do I have to reiterate that they were taken from international waters? Lest we forget, they were coming to the assistance of the people of Gaza, who are incarcerated in the biggest open air prison in the world-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and suffering the most disgusting and humiliating conditions of impoverishment, humiliation and child malnutrition while the European Union looks the other way most of the time.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: I will conclude. The least that the Tánaiste could do is stand up for what he said he believed in over the past 30 years, namely, the rights of the Palestinian people, instead of defending the indefensible.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste stated that he met the Israeli ambassador yesterday. Will he call him in this morning to ask him why the State of Israel saw fit to humiliate the Irish Government by its treatment of our citizens this morning? The idea that British Airways would refuse to board seven Irish citizens is utterly derisory.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: I demand that the ambassador be called in today.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: More importantly, we want our citizens back here and we want an international statement in opposition to this outrage.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: I could not hear the Tánaiste because of the mob over there.