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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Students do not own the houses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is disgraceful bullying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Fix the leaks in the State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It would be much better to do this than to waste money on meters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: We all pay for water through our taxes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: When we buy goods in shops we pay for the shopkeeper's water charges also.
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Minister to acknowledge that since the household tax is almost an austerity tax to bail out the speculators and bondholders, it is absolutely immoral for him to cut back on funds for services from central taxation that will affect the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people. Does the Minister not agree further that it is an outrage that county councils would threaten students with...
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to try to blackmail their parents into giving up their completely justified boycott against this tax?
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister should listen to Peter Bacon, who has ridiculed that idea. He rebuts it.
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Who will pay the property tax? Will it be someone from Mars?
- Other Questions: Local Government Fund (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Apparently, a Cheann Comhairle, there are secret pots of gold under every house.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: So you are not the one who said it was a vampire tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the European leaders with whom he has had discussions with since the summer recess. [38949/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he has submitted any proposals for the EU Summit taking place on the 18 to 19 October in Brussels; the issues he will prioritise; and if he has received an agenda. [38952/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: When in her post-summer press conference the German Chancellor stated that no changes were necessary to the Irish bailout austerity agenda, which, in case we forget, sees working people and the poor salvaging the financial market speculators in Europe, and that everything - the cuts, the crisis and the hundreds of thousands of people who are unemployed - was fine with Ireland, what did she...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: What sort of formal proposals?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is spinning more fairy tales.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: With regard to the banking debt and the European Union, I recall a movie from a long time ago called "The Secret Life of Words". Do these words have some secret meaning that I miss? The Taoiseach quoted them. He obtained a commitment in June to examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with a view of further improving the sustainability of the wealth performing adjustment...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is the Taoiseach who is airy-fairy.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: Has there been a secret statutory instrument to give county councils the right to threaten students seeking third level grants over whether their parents have paid the household tax? I ask this because the Minister for Education and Skills scandalously, and quite disgracefully, championed this bullying of students instead of championing the right of students to their education. Has the...