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- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: He is living in cloud cuckoo land if he compares what happened with the national debt between the mid-1990s and 2007 in terms of the rate at which the economy grew-----
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: ----with what is happening during this period of depression in world capitalism. He is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that can be repeated. Does he agree that a referendum is needed, especially to cure his delusion on this issue? We need a deep debate on the matter. Will the Taoiseach be specific on when the Attorney General will report to him or to the Government? When will he...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: We did not get an answer.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It appears that unlike the Taoiseach's ministerial colleagues, the Attorney General is not given a date for the completion of her homework.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: What the hell is it about so?
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will not even provide a target for the first and second years of the plan.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: May I share time?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The information is in the public domain. What a cop out.
- Written Answers — State Banking Sector: State Banking Sector (15 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent by the State-funded EBS and Bank of Ireland in preparing the submissions of their respective chief executives for the Central Bank of Ireland's fitness and probity review of directors, including both the cost of engaging the services of the US-based consultants Promontory and the cost of these banks' own employees; and if he, the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Can I return to the lead item on many news programmes this morning with the residents of our capital city being bullied and blackmailed by the private waste collection company, Greyhound? Greyhound, let us remember, was handed a contract for a crucial public service in our city just a couple of weeks ago. I ask the Tánaiste why, when questioned about the issue this morning, he adopted the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste agree that, on the contrary, he should feel ashamed, diminished and humiliated as a result of this action?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The reason I ask him about his responsibility for this situation is because he is the leader of the Labour Party. A member of his party occupies the position of Lord Mayor of Dublin. His party has 19 out of 52 councillors, which is the biggest group by far.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: He is also Tánaiste of this State and with his Fine Gael allies he has a crushing majority on Dublin City Council.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: In view of that, does it sit well with the Tánaiste that he has presided over the privatisation of this crucial public service-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and handed it to a company which has moved its corporate centre to an offshore island so that it does not need to publish its profits-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and can arrogantly treat the hard-pressed citizens of our capital city in this manner? The Tánaiste is acquiescing in a cringing fashion to the troika's demand for massive privatisation in our bigger public services and State agencies but does this debacle give him pause for thought before creating further debacles? What is the Labour Party going to do today to resolve this problem...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I heard the remark but the Tánaiste's chorus came in at the wrong time.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I knew the Tánaiste would try to divert the question in exactly the way he did.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: For this reason-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----I refer to what does not lie, namely, the history of this issue. There was a fresh faced councillor in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s-----