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- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am amazed that the proposal refers to a Minister or Minister of State when the Taoiseach clearly gave the impression that he would be prepared to come in here to answer questions for 40 minutes. Perhaps that is the case. Perhaps i am wrong that it should have stated "Taoiseach" as the Taoiseach is a Minister of the Government in any case. It is absolutely incumbent on him that he comes...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Which Bill?
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: You could project your voice a little more.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister, Deputy Hogan, came in last night and presented Second Stage of the household tax Bill. He had a grin on his face from beginning to end as he was introducing it.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We need time to explain the implications of this to the Minister, Deputy Hogan. It is not a grinning matter, this new imposition on individuals and families. The vast bulk of ordinary people, the vast bulk of the 1.6 million householders, as the Government says, which is the huge majority of householders and, therefore, a huge majority of the population, are to be coerced into paying this...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Therefore, we need time to explain the implications to the Government. Perhaps it will see the light and withdraw it, and go after the bondholders instead and find the funds there-----
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----or go after the super-wealthy, whose assets are not being touched by the Government, instead of coming back to the same well of ordinary people up and down this country. We need the time for that.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: In the Taoiseach's extraordinary letter to the President of the European Council, Van Rompuy, he stated that by not imposing losses on unsubordinated bank bondholders, the Irish people have paid an extraordinarily high price to protect the wider European banking system from contagion. Is it not pathetic for the Taoiseach to appeal to a leading eurocrat on the basis of being prepared to bleed...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We are paying the gamblers' losses.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: It was to save the speculators from their losses.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: If.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Omniscience even.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Legally.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The markets are threatening us.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The landlords.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I do.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is amusing that the landlord becomes the victim and the tenant should be the payer.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: That is not true. The Statute of Limitations applies.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Sharing with whom?
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why is that?