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- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: There is no confusion.
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: A Member is entitled under Standing Orders to oppose a proposal made by the Taoiseach on the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Under Standing Orders, we are entitled to make a short statement on why we are opposing a proposal.
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The reason we are opposing it is that the Government is putting through all types of business, but on the business that is seizing the nation, water charges-----
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----there is no clarity provided by the Government-----
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: There is no need for that.
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I have a simple question for the Taoiseach-----
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: When will the Taoiseach provide clarity on what he is saying the people must pay?
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: They will at least know how much-----
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What is going on?
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: No, we do not. We want to know when the Government will give us time to discuss the disastrous situation with water charges.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of the extension in budget 2015 of tax breaks for leasing agricultural land; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons and the number of companies benefitting from these tax breaks each year since they were introduced; the benefit per person and per company; and if any analysis has been carried out of the income...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce the level of temporary staffing across the public sector by converting such posts to permanent contracts. [42069/14]
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I wish to ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he will reduce the very high level of temporary staffing across the public sector by converting such posts to permanent jobs.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: There is an inordinate number of temporary contract workers in the public sector, in particular, as a consequence of the recruitment embargo and people were brought in on very short-term contracts. These contracts were renewed one after the other and many had to resort to the courts to have the State implement the law to give them fixity of tenure. If we look at the Department of Education...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Of course, we want people to have proper decent jobs in the public sector with proper pensions and conditions, but that has been made far more difficult by the fact that the Government and the previous Administration did not replace up to 30,000 public sector workers. Does the Minister not see the difficulty of staff in PeoplePoint with up to two years experience who hope to be made...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Labour Party changed its mind after it ran its Tesco advertisement.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste give me the time, date and duration of the debate on water charges? People deserve to know the level of charges the Government will force them to boycott en masse in January.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: In respect of the International Agreements on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Taxation Bill, on the morning when The Irish Timesexposes the most incredible tax dodging by Irish corporations purporting to work in Luxembourg, where they have as much work as they would have on the Blasket Islands, when will the Government stop this incredible scamming on tax by major corporations when...