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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Joe Higgins: In deference to the members who have been waiting a long time to contribute and the fact that I have to speak in the Chamber, I will be pointed and brief in my remarks. I ask Professor McHale to pardon me for being blunt. I do not believe he and his colleagues live in the real world. Their prescriptions are from an ivory tower but in the real world people are suffering very badly the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Joe Higgins: We need an audit first to determine where the wealth is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Joe Higgins: I thank the delegates.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Get it from the tax exile billionaires first.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent discussions with British Prime Minister Mr David Cameron. [38951/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said that the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, invited him to a conference on nutrition, world hunger and related issues. What new ideas came forward from the British Prime Minister in respect of the alleviation or, preferably, elimination of hunger and malnutrition across the world? What new ideas, if any, did the Taoiseach bring to the conference? Were the results of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: What is lost here to the taxpayer is wrong but it is peanuts compared to what is happening at the very top of society and usually quite legally precisely because the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister join together to protect the super-rich. Can the Taoiseach give us any insights into his thinking and what new ideas he will produce in respect of the fact that world hunger could be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I commend all those involved in the struggle to improve nutrition and end hunger. They should receive every support. The point I am making to the Taoiseach, however, is that the resources deployed in this regard are a fraction of what could be brought to bear in a concerted way if we had a very different financial system internationally and a different order of priorities. Does the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Why does the Taoiseach not demand it and lead the way for a change?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is not enough; it is a fraction of what is needed for God's sake.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I refer to the minerals development Bill and, in view of alarming reports today of sharp increases in health insurance, the health insurance (risk equalisation) Bill. I had hoped to advise Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, before he left the Chamber-----

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: In his new dispensation, he might be able to use his youthful political training in how to deal successfully with an entrenched Stalinist regime.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Furniture (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a report in 2005 by the National Back Pain Association UK that considered that the backward sloping chairs that are used in nearly all schools are the main cause of back pain; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that the National Standards Authority of Ireland is proposing that this backward slope...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on waiting times for orthodontic procedures across the State; if he will indicate if a willingness of persons on the lists of hospitals where the wait is longer may be accommodated in hospitals with shorter waiting times if they indicate a willingness to travel for their procedure; if a review of the way to reduce orthodontic waiting...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: It would cost nothing to stop cronyism. It is free to do it.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: There are almost daily leaks from the Government to the media concerning the property tax, which are causing huge anxiety among hard pressed people in regard to the additional burden this austerity tax will mean. With regard to the legislative schedule, is it the Government's intention to published the finance (local property tax) Bill before the budget when we are told some details about...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Will that be before the budget?

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: When will the Thornhill report be published?

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I do not know if the Minister is a fan of the late actor Humphrey Bogart but when it comes to the selection of primary health care centres in Balbriggan, Rick's joint in Casablanca definitely comes to my mind. Of all the streets, of all the areas in all of Balbriggan, the primary care centre would land in the lap of a Fine Gael businessman, a contributor to Fine Gael and a supporter of the...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: On the question of ownership, Mr. Murphy stated that he was engaging with NAMA, but that the sites were in his ownership. Will the Minister clarify this issue? Is it not obvious that, just like the unjustified rezonings of the past, a lease between the HSE and the owner of a building or a site will confer significant financial advantage in the price secured? In any dealing with, for...