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- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----he could implement progressive wealth taxation on the top 5%, for example, which at 1% would bring in â¬2 billion a year? Why does he not look there instead of imposing further burdens on our people? Lastly, the Taoiseach mentioned Vita Cortex earlier.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Is it not disgraceful that his Government provides maximum fines-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, if the baying mob keeps going I cannot finish my question. It is quite simple.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I must be allowed to put my question and the Taoiseach must be allowed to answer.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Let me round off, so.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach not think it is a disgrace that his Government is providing for maximum fines of â¬2,500 and â¬5,000 for decent people who are objecting to its taxes-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----when the Vita Cortex multi-millionaires can walk away-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----leaving workers in massive distress, with not a single sanction? The Taoiseach had better listen to what the people are saying or the Government will flounder on this. That will be clear in seven weeks time.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Five or six percent of the wealthiest may have registered; the vast majority will not. The Government will face this boycott-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Government is killing people.
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The finance Bill is being published today. What is the precise timetable for the Bill? Would it not be appropriate to table an amendment to the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011 to deal with the issue the Taoiseach addressed earlier, namely, the contempt shown to workers by the likes of the Vita Cortex and La Senza bosses? Apart from the contempt and disgraceful abuse of workers, does...
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: So the law is too weak.
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I wonder if the Minister will arrange meetings at Dublin Airport between these few dozen high flyers she is bringing in and the thousands of our own brightest and best who are being forced out of the country by her Government's insane austerity policies. Are there any further amendments from the Government on job creation that we do not yet know about? I ask this in light of the Minister for...
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: When will we have legislation, or possibly an amendment to the Finance Bill 2012, to provide the 100,000 real jobs that the Government parties promised before the general election?
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (9 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households that have registered for the â¬100 household charge to date, in tabular form, under the following headings and broken down by local authority area: paid â¬100 in full, registered for quarterly payments, registered as exempt, and the total amount remaining to register within the...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach agree that historically, Fine Gael has used the Seanad as a rest home for some aging politicians and a nursery for others? In my memory, the Seanad has never seriously challenged a Dáil majority.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that, contrary to what Deputy Martin seemed to suggest, the Seanad does not have any legitimacy as a check on this Chamber? Does he agree that as an institution, the Seanad does not have democratic legitimacy, given that its Members are selected in a totally undemocratic manner by a very select electorate? Does he agree that we should see the end of it as soon as...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: One of the aspects of the blather we hear again and again is the reference to the "programme".
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is as if the State is a helpless victim of addiction who is on a programme. Will the Taoiseach agree that a referendum is needed on the austerity treaty?