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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: When a government makes a decision that private debt be foisted onto the shoulders of the working class, then we are in an entirely different situation and a crazed logic and morality, which is what is being implemented. Virtually every economist in town goes along with that and does not challenge it. I need to move forward quickly. I refer to the end of austerity and 2015-16. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To come back to Dr. Donovan's caveats in regard to projections, etc., this country will leave the troika programme at the end of this year. It must do so because the troika above all and the whole political establishment of Europe needs it to leave for political reasons and to validate their austerity agenda and to say Ireland was the poster boy and it is leaving. Will Dr. Donovan look at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: We have heard a lot about the sustainability of the total national debt, which now stands at 120% of GDP. If memory serves me correctly, interest payments must be close to €9 billion per year. What is the council's comment on that situation? Is it sustainable and what do the markets think about it? What are the prospects for the debt, particularly interest rates, which are a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is an income tax, because it is coming from workers' wages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: That is semantics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: On workers.

Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: First, will the Tánaiste say definitively that the maternal life protection Bill will have passed all Stages by the summer recess?

Order of Business (25 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is quite in order on the Order of Business. Second, as the banks were announcing crippling increases in mortgage payments the Revenue Commissioners chairwoman, on the Tánaiste's behalf, was callously threatening to dip into the social welfare payments and wages of workers who object to his property tax, which is a tax too far. Will he amend the property tax to ensure that does not...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (30 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if it is his policy to hold a referendum on the future of Seanad Éireann. [12515/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (30 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Socialist Party was decades ahead of the parties in government in demanding the abolition of the Seanad. The Seanad is an elitist entity, some of the Members of which are voted in by university graduates. There is no vote in the Seanad for ordinary working people who did not have the opportunity to attend third level. Even some of those who have attended college, have been denied a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [12517/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The foundation that organises the World Economic Forum is funded by about 1,000 of the biggest multinational corporations, typically grossing more than $5 billion in turnover annually. The gathering in Davos that the Taoiseach attended is by invitation only, bringing together the world's biggest capitalists, quite an array of leading right-wing politicians, including the Taoiseach, and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Without added horsemeat, one hopes.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013 is a mean bit of proposed legislation to give back to the banks the terrifying power over homeowners who purchased prior to 1 December 2009 and who might have been in a position to benefit from the repeal of section 62(7) of the Registration of Title Act 1964 in that their homes could not be repossessed by virtue of this repeal. What is...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Then stop the cuts.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the priorities he will set for the European Council meeting on 14 and 15 March. [12518/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: Just to be helpful, austerity is widely understood as an economic policy where governments slash the living standards of ordinary people through income cuts and higher taxes to pay for the bailout of bankers and speculators when their casino-like money market system fails. People throughout Europe will find it amazing that the Taoiseach or Prime Minister of the country that holds the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (7 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the anomaly in the correspondence (details supplied) whereby persons who complete a foundation course under the springboard initiative in order to access third level can be made ineligible for free fees in respect of their third level course on the basis that the foundation course is itself a major award. [21141/13]

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

Joe Higgins: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students of all religions who wish to attend their local secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 in the multi- ethnic community, will be required to wear a Catholic crest on their school jumper, as is proposed by the patrons and as appears on their website. [21444/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Controls (7 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: 303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality following the recent installation of automated passport checks in Dublin Airporty, if data on the entry of Irish citizens into the State is retained; if so, the length of time for which such data retained; the persons that would have access to such data and the purposes of same. [21574/13]