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- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister should not worry as we had no choice. It is â¬160 million from households while the Government gives â¬3 billion to the Anglo Irish Bank bondholders and banks. That is to put it in context.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: This week the Taoiseach's Government is declaring a new economic war on the people with its new household tax. It will be a new burden on ordinary people in furtherance of the Government's ruinous austerity policy of bailing out banks and speculators. Does the Taoiseach have any idea of how angry, frustrated and outraged our people have become over the past three years as their wages,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach see this household tax is a burden too far? Starting at â¬100, everyone knows it will rise quickly to â¬1,000 with the EU-IMF driving it as well. Does the Taoiseach understand this will be met with a massive campaign of opposition from Donegal to Wexford, from Kerry right back to Dublin? The Taoiseach's disgraceful campaign of intimidation of threatening householders...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: This is their opportunity to have their own referendum on these ruinous austerity polices. They are being called on not to register in January, February or the first half of March when the Government cannot touch them.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We will arrive at the end of March with the bulk of the 1.6 million householders having boycotted the registration.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Not registering will break this unjust tax.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach know that the attitude among people is that if one is brought to court, then we will all go? Does he realise he cannot coerce a million plus householders?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: In boycotting this new and unfair tax-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----does the Taoiseach know a leaf is being taken from his county's history when the people stood up and resisted the unfair and unjust extortion of landlords? The Taoiseach will be the new Captain Boycott of austerity, imposing the will of the EU-IMF-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----and bleeding our people.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Coming from Mayo, how will the Taoiseach live with that?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Spurious arguments like that and evading the critical issue-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Everything can be boiled down to a few euro a week - electricity, gas, heat, the children's clothes, even child care. The reduction in child benefit is more than a few euro a week by the way. That is completely spurious. People in Kerry, Mayo and Dublin understand that nothing is free because they pay for it already. We have running water in our homes because taxpayers funded and continue...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is wrong regarding the privatisation of bin services up and down the country. The vast bulk of local authorities had privatised their bin services before the Dublin protest.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I invite the Taoiseach to look at the anti-water tax campaign between 1994 and 1996 when a massive boycott by the people of Dublin forced a Government with his party in it to get rid of the tax in December 1996. That is what he is looking at again.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is trying to blur the issue by reading a list of waivers. Will he acknowledge that the vast bulk of ordinary people on low and middle incomes, including pensioners and householders in negative equity or who are put to the pin of their collar to pay their mortgages will have this tax demanded of them if it is passed in the House? Loads of money can be got for our public and...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: On 25 January next, the Taoiseach intends to pay â¬1.2 billion to a single unsecured bondholder in the former Anglo Irish Bank.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: He could keep â¬200 million, give it to the local authorities and give people a break. I invite him to withdraw this household tax disaster this week-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government will get them in other ways.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government is killing jobs with its austerity.