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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent meetings he has had with social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41692/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I wish to put a more fundamental point to the Taoiseach in asking him if he agrees that the very concept of so-called social partnership is, in fact, faudulent and a sham. Is the idea that employers and private corporations that exploit and abuse their workers on the one hand while on the other hand the workers themselves are partners not a contradiction? The Greyhound waste company last...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: That goes on unhindered under the Taoiseach's rule, yet he speaks about partnership. Are the house-building firms and banks that saddled a generation of young working people with 40-year mortgages and unsustainable levels of repayment to finance the profiteering that went on during the bubble now their partners? The Taoiseach will remember that so-called partnership was begun by no less...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Can the Taoiseach tell us what the water legislation will encompass? All we have so far are promises by Ministers that some legislation will, abhorrently, provide sanctions for those who cannot afford to pay the water charges or those who will never be reconciled to this new austerity tax. This country's landlords have more power over tenants than virtually any other country in the European...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach really planning to put tenants in an even more vulnerable position by giving landlords the power to raid their deposits to pay Irish Water? Has the Taoiseach forgotten the lessons of his native county and how the people of Mayo hated and rejected Captain Boycott-----

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: -----because of his form of landlordism? When exactly will this piece of legislation come forward if the Taoiseach will persist with it?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will rue the day.

European Debt: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I strongly agree with the sentiments in the motion which state that the debt burden on Ireland and on other European states is unsustainable and is acting as a huge brake on the economic and social development of society. I agree also with the sentiment that it is the social and economic interests of our people that were sacrificed to private banks and to the European financial markets in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: 592. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the review of energy options for the State with the inclusion of nuclear power. [4383/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: 593. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the Pathways to Power report January 2015 compiled by the WWF and international marine consultants DNV GL on a fully renewable energy system in Scotland by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4384/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I thank Professor Black for coming across the wide Atlantic to assist us with the banking inquiry. I had intended to ask him to give a short résumé of his experiences that have led him to be an expert on bad practices in the banks but he gave some of it in his introduction, which was quite interesting. He referred to the prosecutions and the investigation into the savings and...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: That was the Clinton Administration. Is that correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Okay. Was it a wilful decision to move towards deregulation, rather than encompassing the lessons that had been learned?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Professor Black said something that might worry some people out there following on from that. He said a few minutes ago, if I understood him correctly, that nothing has "come to fruition" in effective regulation in the six and a half years since the most recent crisis started. Why does he think that is the case?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Could it be a factor in the United States or even in Europe that the financial markets and the massively powerful financial institutions have exerted pressure through lobbying, etc., to try to slow down or halt the type of radical regulation about which Professor Black speaks?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: We will put this question to the Commission representative who will be here later. We will ask whether there was such a race to the bottom in Europe. We await a response in regard to that. I would like to ask Professor Black briefly about the recipe he has laid out for bank failure, the drive for very rapid growth and the types of loans, etc. He said that one of the sure things is that...