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- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the 1.8 million households liable to register for the household tax that have done so. [16769/12]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 428: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have registered for the household tax that were liable to pay the tax; and the number that were exempt. [16770/12]
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I never engage in the farcical gameplaying that goes on generally when an adjournment of the Dáil is proposed.
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I assure those sections of the media who will misreport it that I certainly have enough to keep me going over the next few weeks-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to serve my constituents and the people of the country who will have me as busy as I have been for the past three months.
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I propose to the Government a variation whereby before the adjournment today it allows two issues to be dealt with. With regard to the household tax, the Minister, Deputy Hogan, has wisely cancelled his trip to Paris. Perhaps he was afraid of tripping over a guillotine, not there but when he came back in two or three days time. The fact is-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----there is a misrepresentation of the reality and the real figures and the Minister must confirm this.
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: A total of 1.8 million households are due to register-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----not 1.6 million-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The other issue I wish to raise is that another multinational company, Game, has peremptorily shut up shop and left workers-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: In that case I will rest it there but-----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: This is the third time in almost as many months that workers have been disgustingly treated like this and legislative provisions are needed -----
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Minister to reply.
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Speculators and the financial institutions.
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: And the workers.
- Sheep Worrying (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Some of those dogs might be handy next week.
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am also speaking for Deputy Clare Daly. The Socialist Party and the United Left Alliance condemn the brutal fashion in which the GAME workers are being treated. This is the third time in less than six months that a group of workers have been dealt with in such a callous and brutal fashion by a major company. How the GAME workers have been treated is as disgusting as the manner in which...
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Topical Issue Debate is becoming a joke.
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, but it is ridiculous. These debates are supposed to be meaningful and Ministers are supposed to attend. Now it is by ministerial rote.
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Topical Issue Debate was supposed to make a revolutionary change to the way the Dáil operated by facilitating a real engagement between Members and the Government on issues arising around the country. Game workers came from Dublin and further afield to engage the Government through their elected representatives but all they got was a script that was dry as dust. It is not good enough...