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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: President Clinton presided over the disastrous deregulation of banking that gave us the crisis in the first place. Are the surveillance of EU budgets, the two pack and the six pack being discussed in the course of the Irish Presidency? This is an entirely new process that provides for strict surveillance and new powers for the European Commission to dictate aspects of the budgets of member...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Come on. The Taoiseach should be serious for a change. This is Committee Stage we are talking about and there are 67 amendments.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The crushing by the Government of adequate time for debating this property tax compounds the legislation's lack of democratic credibility. The reality is that the property tax has not a shred of democratic legitimacy. Fine Gael, the majority party in government, categorically ruled out a property tax in its 2011 election manifesto when it claimed that "a recurring residential property tax...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is not true.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: That is not true.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: That is not true. On a point of order-----

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister must not be allowed to abuse the House.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister must tell the truth.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: I wanted 20 minutes but I got only ten because there was insufficient time. The Minister should withdraw his comment.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Other Deputies were in a similar position.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is completely wrong. We have just contradicted the Minister. He should take it back.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Who pays for those services? It is the taxpayers whom the Minister is hitting again.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is the same taxpayers.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: If that is the case, they should not be given the poison chalice that is the property tax.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (5 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) on a community employment scheme may not receive their scheme payment or sickness benefit if they have a certified illness. [11005/13]

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: Tá sé ráite le seachtain anuas i cuid mhaith de na meáin cumarsáide go bhfuil an Rialtas chun reachtaíocht a thabhairt chun cinn chun cumhacht níos leithne a thabhairt do na bainc agus institiúdí morgáistí tithe a thógaint ó teaghlaigh atá i dtrioblóid le aisíoc morgaístí. Mar is eol don Taoiseach,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Disputes (6 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the industrial dispute at St James Hospital, Dublin, concerning the suspension of a number of directly employed electricians over a health and safety matter which is ongoing despite the Health and Safety Authority upholding the stand of the workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11739/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (7 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a request for a meeting from the parents of Tyrrelstown Educate Together National School to discuss the decision to award patronage to a Catholic trust for the new secondary school for Tyrrelstown, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15. [11799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (7 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a decision made in his Department to give patronage of a new secondary school for Tyrrelstown, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15 to the Catholic Le Chéile trust, in the most religiously diverse and multicultural area in the entire country; and if so, if he will recognise that the decision must now be reviewed as it would...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her recent visit to Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2339/13]