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Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: I want to say to the Minister-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is absolutely outrageous that the Minister is trying to curtail and guillotine this debate.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister is proposing to push through a debt which will burden our children and their children for next 40 years. That is outrageous.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is privatisation of the water supply.

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Water Services Bill 2013 has serious implications for the future of a major infrastructure in our society. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the first step in a strategy to achieve the privatisation of the water supply network and infrastructure in the Republic. It is simply the beginning of a process of putting in place all the infrastructure on which a later privatisation will...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Cá bhfuil siad?

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Cén tir?

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: For God's sake, China is not a communist country.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (19 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any meetings or discussions he has had with representatives from the Northern Ireland Executive regarding the controversy over the union flag being flown over Belfast City Hall only on designated days following a vote in the city council [2642/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings that took place at the EU Summit on 22 November. [2340/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 890 of 5 February 2013, the matter of the overpayment to a board member at the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company is the subject of legal action, this means that the board member in question has refused to repay the moneys owing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8571/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 888 of 5 February 2013, and his commitment to taking up the issue of €20,000 payment of a car allowance to the CEO of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, if he will now agree to take up the issue with the acting chairperson instead as it is unclear when a new chairperson will be appointed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Application Numbers (19 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of work permits that have been issued to migrants working in the fishing industry since 2010. [8213/13]

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Finance Bill 2013 merely carries on the failed austerity policies the Fine Gael and Labour Party in coalition have been implementing for two years. This does not prevent the Minister for Finance from trying to spin economic figures in favour of the Government. Introducing the Bill, he presented 0.8% growth in gross domestic product in the first three quarters of 2012 as if it were a...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Maidir leis An mBille Airgeadais 2013, níl anseo ach daingniú ar an déine mar pholasaí Rialtais, an polasaí céanna atá Páirtí an Lucht Oibre agus Fine Gael ag cur chun cinn le dhá bhliain anuas agus atá tubaisteach ó thosach go deireadh; níos mó ciorraithe agus níos...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Correspondence (20 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised with his Spanish counterpart the policy of dispersal of Basque prisoners throughout the Spanish state and the consequent hardship on their families. [8954/13]

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government has stated it will cut unilaterally if they do not agree. That is democracy.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government is threatening unilateral pay cuts.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the European Parliament. [2641/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The eurozone is in a severe economic crisis, while growth is stagnant. Tragically, 26 million people are unemployed, including a huge cohort of youth. All over Europe, particularly in southern Europe, austerity is the agenda being driven by the leadership of the European Union. Is it not the reality that the Irish Presidency will mean absolutely nothing to the tens of millions of suffering...