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Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am speaking about the International Agreements on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Taxation Bill. Yesterday, women in their sixties were manhandled by the gardaí.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste is responsible for this disgraceful situation. What will she do to stop the gardaí brutalising local communities for opposing water charges?

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am saying that right around this country, there is an insurrection against the Government's new austerity tax. People are being manhandled and brutalised by her gardaí and I am calling her to account to stop it.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: No, the Government is abusing them.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (6 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reverse the pay cuts for lower-paid public servants as promised under the Croke Park agreement. [42068/14]

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: That is rubbish.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: They are paying for it already.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committee meetings that were held in July, August and September 2014. [35180/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: The problem with questions to the Taoiseach is that the lead-in time before they are answered is so long that the answers to which the Taoiseach deliberately confines himself are out of date. For example, he could have taken the opportunity to apprise us of what Cabinet sub-committee meetings have taken place since the date in the question. In the past month we have heard about only one...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Yes. I thought the Chair was going to call some of the others.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Of course the Taoiseach lives in a bubble. He frequently has to have an escort of dozens of gardaí to get him in and out of venues.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is unfortunate for the Taoiseach that he is so far removed from the feelings of the ordinary people he has angered so much with his austerity agenda and, in particular, his water tax. It is also unfortunate for the people because they do not want to be protesting on the streets. They have many other things to be doing, but they are on the streets because this is the last straw. Their...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: People know very well that it will increase inexorably as soon as the pressure is off. The Taoiseach should not fool himself in that regard. He can take it from me that I am speaking for the grassroots here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: On the role of the Economic Management Council, I would like to refer to the phone calls that were made in 2011 to the Taoiseach and allegedly to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, from the then president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, who demanded absolutely that the Government would not burn some bondholders it was apparently about to burn. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: It is the role of the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: They are saying "no way - we won't pay".

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Same as the meeting on burning the bondholders.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform was held and when the next one is scheduled. [35182/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach clarify again for Members the role of the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform? Can he say, for example, whether it will have a role in the next while in responding to the Garda Inspectorate report? While I have not had the opportunity to study it, the headlines that came out of it point to serious ongoing issues within the Garda Síochána on how issues in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: What role has the justice reform sub-committee played in the increasingly political policing in this State, over the past month or two in particular? The private company of a billionaire went to the High Court and got an exclusion order pertaining to the water meter sites where it is installing meters for profit at taxpayers’ expense. It uses the media to smear decent taxpayers who...