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- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The last time the Taoiseach imposed a guillotine in respect of water charges was when he was introducing his bondholders' water tax. That decision was to fill the black hole left by the billions transferred to bondholders in the European financial markets. There is no mystery about that. It means that the Taoiseach did not hear the representatives from this side who would have told him...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: People will no longer tolerate being lied to in general elections - pretending there will be no water charges and then stabbing them in the back, as the Labour Party did. The reason we need more time is that the latest political trickery the Government is up to, which involves pretending to people that water charges will only cost them a crooked halfpenny and telling them they should not be...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: They will not tolerate any more of this last-----
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----massive sting of the Government's austerity taxes. The Taoiseach needs to be told that and we need the time to do it. Therefore, there should be no guillotine.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is responsible for the trouble over the past month.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Fix it then; tax the millionaires.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: A contribution has already been made.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is outrageous. They will have the landlords in the country rack-renting.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister cannot say that for another Government. He cannot decide that.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: That law can be repealed.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The contempt with which the Minister and the Government are treating the elected representatives of the people is breathtaking.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: He started by saying this was a very important day for the country because of the proposals on Irish Water and water charges he was introducing. Then he walked out and left the representatives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to speak to thin air, as far as he is concerned. He has come in with his array of political trickery to try to convince the people that something...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I have no doubt he has gone to the media to sell his snake oil trickery in order to get out before the Opposition, as if the Government has not had enough access, over the past 24 hours, to all its favourite journalists, spinning and leaking everything the Minister said here today to get the story out first. It is unacceptable, and the Minister should be sent for immediately.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I propose to share time with Deputies Mick Wallace and Joan Collins. The people of Ireland are not fools, and they recognise political trickery when they see it. Today, in the supposed concessions on water charges, they will recognise a transparent manoeuvre to get Fine Gael and the Labour Party past the next general election without being politically annihilated. It simply will not work....
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: To add to the rack-renting torture that so many people are subjected to as private tenants, the Government will appoint landlords to rob tenants' deposits. This is breathtaking. One of the most vulnerable groups in our society, those depending on private landlords, are to be subject to further robbery, with the landlord as the agent. This is some legacy for a Labour Party Minister to...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Government and the media portray this as leading the stupid mob by the nose. James Connolly answered that much more eloquently than I ever could.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What undermines democracy in the country is establishment political parties lying through their teeth to ordinary people at election time. The Tánaiste had a Tesco ad in one hand, promising no Fine Gael water charges, and in the other hand an application form to join a Fine Gael Government with water charges. Is it any wonder the Labour Party was eviscerated in Dublin West and Dublin...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 98. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include the Westbank Orphanage in Greystones, County Wicklow, in the inquiry into the mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44416/14]
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: By Independent newspapers.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Tax the millionaires.