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- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with Chancellor Merkel on the Eurozone financial crisis. [35837/11]
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on which Eurozone leaders he has discussed with over the past two weeks in relation to the crisis in the Eurozone. [35838/11]
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any contact with the newly appointed Prime Minister Papademos of Greece and Prime Minister Monti in Italy. [35839/11]
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: There will be time. There are 25 minutes remaining.
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Almost as good. I have two questions for the Taoiseach. What did he expect from Chancellor Merkel when he outlined to her the savage austerity measures he was inflicting on the ordinary people of the State to pay off the exorbitant gambling debts of German speculators and salvage the European financial market system? When he went to Germany, was he an innocent wandering abroad, like Little...
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Answer the question.
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Do not bluff.
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Answer the question.
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: To satisfy the markets.
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: No, we believe in democracy, not speculation.
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: What were the changes?
- Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that if he said to Chancellor Merkel that he has a strong investment programme and is fostering the indigenous economy, he is spinning a yarn? In the same week, the Taoiseach announced massive cuts in the capital programme and the continuation of the austerity measures that are hammering the indigenous economy. What is the Taoiseach's view of this morning's reports...
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: I have three questions. The Taoiseach did not answer the question raised by my colleague, Deputy Clare Daly, regarding when the animal health and welfare Bill will be brought before the Dáil and whether it will include a ban on fur farming. With two weeks to go to the budget, will the local government charges Bill, which provides for a household tax, be introduced, debated and passed in...
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: That was No. 1. Tá an Rialtas ag iarraidh cÃos a chur ar tithe. Dúradh liom cheana féin go dtiocfadh an cÃos isteach sa seisiún seo. NÃl ach coicÃs fágtha roimh an mbuiséad. Cathain go cruinn a thiocfaidh sé os comhair na Dála? When the Minister for Finance introduced the pension levy, was he aware it would take out 10% of the annual wages of Tara miners for the next four years?
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is 10% not 0.6%.
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: It equates to â¬1,000 per year for low paid pensioners.
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Tá siad á chur i bhfolach os na hoibrithe.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: After his nomination on 9 March the Taoiseach said in the Dáil, "Honesty is not alone our best policy but our only policy." What is honest about the cynical kite flying by half of the Cabinet in the last week, in manipulating the media and the people with stories of horror cuts and charges in order that when they are a little less when they bring them in, the hope is the people might accept...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister for Finance announced a 0.6% levy on pensions for four years to fund the so-called jobs initiative. Tara miners have exposed the truth; this translates into a savage 10% levy on their modest pensions of â¬10,000 each year for four years. Will the Taoiseach restore honesty? I want a simple yes or no answer; as I am not asking for the budget, the Taoiseach should not say I am....
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach make honest little elves of the Labour Party backbenchers who are busy mining for votes in repeating all the pledges made by their leaders? We hear from journalists that they have been hiding in the woods for the last few days. I would like a straight answer to this question.