Results 2,801-2,820 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: What is the secrecy about?
- Programme for Government (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: This is the third time the Taoiseach has raised this argument.
- European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government is killing it with austerity.
- European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The only thing the Taoiseach got was that the bondholders would not be burned.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: When will Report Stage of the Water Services (Amendment) Bill come before the Dáil? Why was it withdrawn this week? Does it indicate that the Government is rethinking the injustice of putting a new stealth tax on people in rural Ireland who were not able to be part of urban drainage schemes which were set up with public funds? It is placing an extra burden on people.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We are not happy with the guillotine on the Local Government (Household Charge) Bill. Will the Taoiseach-----
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We are unhappy with the other guillotine-----
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister is fooling nobody.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: That is a nice New Year's Day present for them.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: There will be a major boycott of it.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: No, it is not up to me; it is up to the people. The Minister is imposing a draconian fine of â¬2,500 to try to coerce them. He has not gone into that at all.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: It has not even started yet.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Come on.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Minister think the landlords will not pass it on to the tenants?
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: That is shameful. It is the intimidation of decent taxpayers.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: He will not go after the bondholders but he will go after decent taxpayers. It is shameful.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: By Jesus, the Minister will follow them to the grave.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: That is a new construction on grave robbing.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Another tax on the poor.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: What about when property does not go up and people boycott it? What will happen to the local authorities?