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- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and that the mass boycott, which the household and other new taxes are now facing is a demand for a fundamental change in policy?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The boycott and the mass non-registration and mass refusal to pay these taxes that the Taoiseach will face by St. Patrick's Day is the ordinary people's self-made referendum on the Taoiseach's austerity policy.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Are the Labour Deputies reminding the Taoiseach of its party's very expensive ads in the national newspapers during the election campaign, namely, "Fine Gael - Every Little Hurts" and outlining the burdens to which they object that are less even than the household tax?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Are they bringing this to the Taoiseach's attention? Can I ask him if they are all-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----out of touch?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach understand that he now faces a mass movement of opposition? He has an opportunity to change course and he must do that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: You tell the 500,000 people out there-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----in the enforced idleness of the dole and those who are having their living standards savaged that you are not enforcing austerity. Get real, Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: You say that we say we do not want-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----people to pay anything for anything. On the contrary, Taoiseach, it is the big bulk of the ordinary 4.5 million in this State who are paying for everything, including not only our services here but the bail outs of the vulture financial institutions in the European financial markets and their bad gambles. That is what we are paying for and that is what we object to. The Taoiseach says...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I have news for the Taoiseach, the social democratic and labour parties all over Europe have long since joined the capitalist establishment.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: They do not speak for the working class any more.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Can I ask the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to see that there are alternatives, for example, on the septic tank issue? A public investment remediation scheme-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----that would put similar amounts of public funds, as went into the urban areas to take our sewage away, into rural areas-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----would not only resolve the problem but create thousands of jobs for construction workers, drainage engineers and others and begin to regenerate the economy that austerity-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----the troika and the gamblers have wrecked. A simple alternative-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Can I ask the Taoiseach to understand as well-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Is it any wonder, in fairness? Some of these Deputies have had their training in the Ballymagash district council, judging by their behaviour this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Can I ask the Taoiseach to understand also that as an alternative to further crushing burdens on working people and poor people-----