Results 3,401-3,420 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I read in a briefing note that the function of the Economic Management Council is to manage the Government's programme in respect of economic planning and budgetary matters, economic recovery programmes, including the representation of Ireland in negotiations with the European Union, the IMF and the European Central Bank, and that additional support for the council is provided from within the...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: There the Taoiseach is, leading us on another wild goose chase employing diversionary tactics to answer the nub of the question I put to him. Perhaps I will have better success the second time. The Taoiseach is absolutely wrong that a country which does not sign the austerity pact will not have access to the ESM.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Read the treaty. If the Irish people vote "No", it is a mandate to the Taoiseach to ensure he removes any doubt there might be. I can go into the details of the ESM treaty itself.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I can go into other matters with the Taoiseach.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will not find any magic bullet in what he is looking at there. The nub of the question is that the 0.5% structural deficit is new.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but the fiscal targets and the automatic debt reduction are new.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I asked the Taoiseach why the economic council has not laid in front of the Irish people what would be the impact in 2015 and beyond of the implementation of these new facets, namely, the â¬5 billion to â¬6 billion in cuts or tax increases or a combination the structural deficit will involve and the â¬4 billion to â¬5 billion of the automatic debt reduction. Does the Taoiseach not accept...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree he has no control over those who will decide whether there is stability, namely, the financial markets? The Taoiseach signing a bit of paper committing our people to further austerity will not satisfy their thirst for more and more of the lifeblood of the resources of people in the form of profits if they fear their funds are at risk. The Taoiseach is making a...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, he is right that you signed it.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: May I just make one point, please?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: May I just finish the point, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The judge said that the Taoiseach signed off on it.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: He did not go on to say that the Government could change that-----
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: He is one leader of the "No" campaign.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should read Article 3 then.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should escape from his handlers for once.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: More diversions. Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Give us the Lisbon treaty jobs first - they are three years overdue.
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline his economic growth and structural deficit and national debt projections in the five years after Ireland makes its scheduled exit from the EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support and the corresponding projections for Ireland's debt to GDP ratio; if he will estimate the scale of adjustments required during this timeframe in order...
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Many eminent economists take a very different view from that of Mr. McHale. These views, which are supported with facts, figures and actual projections, indicate that severe cuts and tax increases will be necessary to reduce the structural deficit to 0.5%. Does the Minister acknowledge that many aspects of these decisions and the implementation of the targets are being taken out of the...