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Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Tá cáin breisluacha le cur in áirde go dtí 23%. Seo ceann des na polasaithe is measa ins an mbuiséad seo agus ceann des na hionsaithe is géire ins an mbuiséad in aghaidh ghnáth daoine. Cuireann cánacha indíreacha isteach go mórmhór ar dhaoine bochta agus ar lucht oibre atá ar phá íseal agus ar meán pá. Dá bhrí sin, tá sé mímhorálta, mícheart agus míchóir ó gach...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: This is not the way to go about regenerating an economy that is being destroyed by the Government's austerity policy. Shortly after I entered the Dáil in 1997 a series of measures was begun by Fianna Fáil to cut taxes for property speculators and developers which led to the catastrophic property bubble which led to the blackmail prices young people were charged for the right to have a roof...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I propose to share time with Deputy Finian McGrath. The thrust of this budget, a further instalment of savage austerity by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government, must be seen in the context of the global crisis that erupted in 2007 on the collapse of the mountain of toxic debt built up in the financial systems of the US and Europe following decades of deregulation and neo-liberal capitalist...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is if the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, does not get a seizure.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I oppose the guillotining of the debate on the Social Welfare Bill. This time last year, as the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, unveiled his budget, screams of anguish reverberated through the corridors of Leinster House. The Labour Party's finance spokesman Deputy Burton was feeling the pain of the poor, the lone parents and, especially, the women of Ireland.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I dare say the Minister must be aware people with children took the biggest cuts this year and last year.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Let us remember child benefit is paid almost universally to women. I suppose that is a comment on how few women are Members of this House and what little power women exercise compared to bankers. This day, in an extraordinary transformation, the same Deputy Burton is now the tormentor of the women and children of Ireland.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The nub of it is that mná na hÉireann and leanaí na hÉireann are bewildered by this massive about-face and need an explanation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: We need, therefore, far more time for Deputy Burton, now Minister for - allegedly - Social Protection, to come into the Dáil and explain the extraordinary transformation and to do so section by section. She must think that along with her pain, a general anaesthetic should be administered to the same women and children whose state she bewailed last year.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste, on behalf of the Labour Party, must explain the absolute about-face in regard to these issues.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Therefore, we need far more time for the Minister and the Tánaiste on behalf of the Labour Party to explain why now they are carrying out these savage cuts on behalf of the same bankers.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: On the Order of Business-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I seek a conversation about next week's business.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the operation of the Economic Management Council. [35841/11]

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could I ask the Taoiseach to be forthcoming on the real agenda and purpose of the economic management council? The membership is the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, who are the leaders of the Fine Gael and Labour parties, respectively, the Minister for Finance from the Fine Gael Party and the alternate Minister for Finance from the Labour Party. Is...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----to dictate to the Cabinet the diktats from the IMF-EU, particularly in regard to austerity, to maintain the bondholders and bankers of Europe, which, in turn, are dictated to the hapless backbenchers of both parties?

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I have asked two questions.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Perhaps this is an Irish version of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse doling out not so much war and pestilence, but savage austerity for our people. I refer to Cabinet confidentiality as it applies to the economic management council. The original four horsemen of mythology came out of a book of scrolls sealed with seven seals, perhaps in anticipation of Cabinet confidentiality. How can...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Government is riding roughshod over the Irish people. That is why the reference is appropriate.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why the secrecy?