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IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach went on at considerable length about the greening of the IFSC and various related policies. Does he not see that anyone with any concern for the environment knows it is a bad joke to rely on the financial markets to drive a greening policy when they have turned greening issues, including swapping and speculating on carbon credits, into another source of speculation and profit?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach outline for the House the agenda in respect of the major Bills relating to the fiscal compact or, as we on the left call it, the austerity treaty? It is said that the Government favours the end of May for the referendum on the austerity treaty. Will he confirm this so that we might have a timescale within which to work? Am I correct in understanding that the Treaty...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: What of the other two Bills?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: What of the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism Bill and the European Communities Act 1972 (amendment) Bill?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I am sorry, but this point is pertinent. For clarity, must the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism Bill be passed by Dáil Éireann before the referendum? Surely this is the case, given that the treaty contains the blackmail clause that will be central to some of the discussions in the referendum debate.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: We can refuse to ratify.

Written Answers — Vehicle Clamping: Vehicle Clamping (15 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations that exist for private clamping companies. [14742/12]

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Why not make it Christmas Day?

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: That is just what the Tánaiste and his colleagues did in the 1980s.

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Is it the Government's intention to announce to the Dáil before the Easter recess the arrangements for the treaty in regard to fiscal responsibility, more properly known as the austerity treaty? Will the Tánaiste provide, if not the exact timetable for the treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism Bill and European Communities Act 1972 (amendment) Bill, the order in which this...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Does the Government intend that the treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism Bill will be taken before or after the referendum?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Will it before or after the Easter recess?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: When does the Tánaiste anticipate the Government will make a decision?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: An tseachtain seo chugainn mar sin?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Gabh mo leithscéal.

Written Answers — Diplomatic Representations: Diplomatic Representations (21 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations for the release of a female Irish citizen detained in Dubai on or around 1 March 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/12]

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Suí síos.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I bring the Tánaiste back to what he stated in the Chamber yesterday on the household charge when he asserted that people wished to pay. Members of the Government have been stating all week that the reason 83% of householders have not registered and paid as of last night is they all are waiting until the last minute. I suggest to the Tánaiste that he is delusional about what is happening...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I suggest this constitutes a massive revolt against the disastrous policy of austerity pursued by the Government and its predecessor. That policy is creating havoc in our society because ordinary people are being fleeced in order that the speculators might be bailed out. I put it to the Tánaiste that in a major article on the household tax yesterday, The New York Times was much more correct...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----the members of which plundered our society and plunged it into a disastrous crash?