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Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach cannot call it vandalism.

Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: It was a peaceful gesture.

Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The vandalism is being delivered to people's homes.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Write down the mortgages.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is about privatisation. It is a troika tax.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations he has made to the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to lift the blockade on Gaza following the severe flooding in northern Gaza. [55313/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance he is giving to the people of Gaza following the recent severe flooding in northern Gaza. [55314/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (15 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 4 December 2013 if he will instruct the city of Dublin and county of Dublin education and training boards to provide the information sought. [55478/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in order that Institutes of Technology do not levy the student charge of approximately €833 on apprentices undertaking a ten week course in the institutes. [55548/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (15 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the back to education allowance scheme to those students undertaking the professional masters in education programme in Dublin City University. [55335/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meetings in 2013 with representatives and lobbyists from the financial services industry, the tobacco industry, the property industry and any other industry representative groups. [1756/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: Could the Minister report on meetings he had in 2013 with representatives and lobbyists within the financial markets system, the tobacco industry, the property industry and other industry groups? This is all the more relevant in view of the information in recent days about the nauseating gouging of the Irish taxpayer by company consultants to Irish Water to the tune of €50 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: I note that the Minister did not include a number of financial services companies and big players in the financial markets that were detailed in an article in the Sunday Independent. He might clarify that. Does the Minister understand how frustrated many ordinary taxpayers are about the privileged access of big players and wealthy interests to the Minister for Finance and indeed the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: As the Minister knows, it was only in the past few days that we were given any information about the lucrative contracts awarded by Uisce Éireann. I wonder if he understands the outrage among ordinary taxpayers over this rip-off to facilitate a system being put in place that will gouge more taxes to pay more bond holders through taxing the water rather than fixing the pipes with the...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Irish people are being taken for a nation of idiots. This Fine Gael-Labour Government and its predecessor piled tens of billions of euro onto their shoulders. The private property speculation debts of bankers and bondholders is to be paid for by savage austerity, cuts in public services and a gouging from working people of new taxes on their homes and on water. Irish Water-Uisce...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: I might have started by bidding the Taoiseach a happy new year, but I just realised that, 16 days in, the new year feels very old already, what with taxpayers being gouged by consultants, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, knowing nothing about anything, and the Labour Party in hiding. If I were a cartoonist drawing a cliché of the old...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: I know, but the Taoiseach was able to come in-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has made political claims about his Administration and what he has spent his money on. It is our entitlement to respond. In his statement and long briefing document, all produced with taxpayers' funds, the exit from the bailout and the deal on the promissory notes is extolled at length but may I put it to him that the downside should have been included also. The Taoiseach...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach must be joking.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Jan 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is funding half of the jihadists in the world.