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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that it would seem extraordinary to most people that the social policy committee has met only once since the recess, particularly in the context of a draconian budget that had severe effects, with further cuts to those dependent on social protection payments? In that regard and against a background of just under 400,000 people who are unemployed or seriously...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Most of them are moving away.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes, and now we have qualified teachers working for €50 per week.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Of course they do.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should get off the stage.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: There are 32 applicants for every vacancy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Hit the working class and let the wealthy off scot free. That is the Taoiseach's motto.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: We are blue in the face putting forward suggestions, and how to finance them as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and Green Economy has met since the summer recess. [45918/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is appalling in view of all that has happened in the past six to 12 months with regard to climate change and all the signs that urgent action is needed to control and modify the effects of industrial capitalism and the hunt for profit at the expense of our environment and resources. We need to curb, control and change this, yet the committee has met only once. Is it not the reality...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: European Employment Service (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 573. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of letters drawing the attention of recipients of unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance to job vacancies abroad issued by her Department; and the criteria upon which it is decided who should be sent such information. [46959/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (5 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 678. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person purchases a property where the prior owner was late registering for the septic tank charge, it jeopardises the new owners eligibility for the grant for remediation work. [46328/13]

Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: The motion before the Dáil calls for the Government to introduce legislation to regulate the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis and cannabis products in Ireland. I support that. I welcome Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's motion and the discussion it is giving rise to. It is not a question of being for cannabis use as a recreational outlet any more than one is for the use of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I thought the Chairman was going to announce the abolition of this tax when he indicated representatives of the Revenue Commissioners may not have to come before us next year. I should begin by declaring an interest and introducing myself as an unhappy customer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: And I am an unwilling customer in the matter of the property tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I represent many decent taxpayers in that regard. Ms Feehily has stated today that this is a new tax and that "our job in Revenue is to collect taxes and duties for the Exchequer in accordance with the law". She has also stated that paying any tax is "unlikely" to generate happiness. I say "Amen" to that, and it is particularly the case when the new tax is loaded onto the people by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Ms Feehily must be a very charitable person.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans and the timeframe to proceed with Dáil reform. [40870/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I want to protest against another despicable use of the guillotine in the debate on the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013. Fine Gael and the Labour Party have again displayed outright contempt for the views of elected representatives who have come into the House even in the last hour and who have been crowded into very small time slots rather than engage in the type of consideration of the measures...