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- European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am sharing time with Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The meeting of European Union leaders on Thursday and Friday will be the 20th meeting since the eurozone crises started in earnest in Greece in early 2010. Since then, the political and economic ruling classes within the European Union have floundered in the face of a catastrophic crisis of their system. The abject failure of the political...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is not our debt.
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is on the Order Paper. Can Deputy Stagg read?
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Stagg should read the Order Paper which contains the Order of Business. That is where he will find it.
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I have a question on financial legislation but to be helpful could I first advise that Deputies Stagg and McCarthy should have taken their Milk of Magnesia this morning. It would have a calming effect-----
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----on their interventions here.
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Second, they should read Standing Orders and get to know them.
- Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yesterday in the High Court the State, on behalf of the Government, gave an undertaking that certain financial measures in proposed legislation would not be proceeded with until the action by Deputy Pringle with regard to the European Stability Mechanism and the necessity for a referendum thereon would be dealt with. Does the Taoiseach know about that and what aspects of legislation will be...
- Written Answers — Chonarthaí Comhairleoireachta: Chonarthaí Comhairleoireachta (27 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 127: To ask the Aire EalaÃon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an ndeachaigh Foras na Gaeilge i gcomhairle leis maidir le GnÃomhaireacht Caidrimh Phoiblà a fhostú, cé go bhfuil a oifigeach preasa féin ag an bhForas. [31186/12]
- Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (28 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he will take to assist small enterprises occupied with eel fishing and curing in view of the effects on this activity arising from the ban on eel fishing. [31455/12]
- Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (28 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Defence in the redress of wrongs process, after a General Officer Commanding has made a ruling on a case, if a third party has authority to change such a ruling. [31416/12]
- European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach the matters he intends to raise at the European leaders meeting on 23 May. [25360/12]
- European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 27: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any contact with the new French President Francois Hollande. [25361/12]
- European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: I refer to the sentence, "The Eurogroup will examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with the view of further improving the sustainability of the well-performing adjustment programme". Apart from being a commendation of the savage austerity imposed by the troika, does this mild aspiration in any way justify the elation expressed by the Taoiseach following the summit meeting? I...
- European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----but that elation was carried into the pages of much of the capitalist press. What justification is there for such elation? Will the Irish people as a whole be responsible for a euro less as a result of this sentence? Second, on foot of this agreement, what will happen to the approximately â¬30 billion that has been put on the shoulders of the Irish people to salvage Anglo-Irish Bank...
- European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Would the Taoiseach care to discuss the â¬4.5 million Fine Gael received in public funding last year?
- European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: For a start, I would not run to the sharks in the markets. Moreover, I remind the Taoiseach that Fine Gael received â¬4.5 million from public funds for his party last year.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach referred to a court case on the European Stability Mechanism. To be clear, I am not asking him to comment on anything relating to that but I am asking him to comment on the scheduling of Dáil business on fiscal matters and the matters he had intended to dispose of before the summer. Does he believe that schedule will be held to or will matters, including matters arising from...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of financial vehicle corporations domiciled in Ireland; the number that are Irish owned; the number of persons employed by these companies; the amount of revenue they provide through corporation tax. [32615/12]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Jul 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit institutions domiciled here; the number that are Irish owned; the number of persons employed by these companies; and the amount of revenue they provide through corporation tax. [32616/12]