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- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: It is 18 years since I first stood up in this Chamber on budget day to oppose this bit of annual hypocrisy by the parties in power, bringing in a punitive tax which particularly impacts on poor people under the guise of health. I am obliged to Dan Macguill at the TheJournal.iefor some research on this, especially as I was taken up with the terrible issues of homelessness and other baneful...
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: They should be nationalised. They should be a State monopoly.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: Cigarette sales should be regulated and any excess should go into harm reduction and to major programmes to assist people in ending addiction. Prohibitionism on alcohol or tobacco does not work so how can we assist people in not smoking or drinking to excess? Jacking up prices is put across as an effective measure. That is now being challenged quite strongly. It is true that a graph in...
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: There is no research-----
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: -----on the transfer to smuggled cigarettes.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: We need to have research to see what Revenue says. The Government's own Revenue organisation said it.
- Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: 111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there was an investigation within her Department regarding a surveillance programme within the Garda Síochána named Operation Mizen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35279/15]
- Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: Did the Minister for Justice and Equality, as we asked her months ago, institute an investigation in her Department regarding a Garda Síochána surveillance programme entitled Operation Mizen against anti-water-charge activists? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?
- Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: Does the Minister have any appreciation of how sinister it is that a mass movement of ordinary people against a water tax is being policed in this way? People understand that this hated austerity burden, which is part of the bailout of bankers and bondholders, is a precursor to commodification and privatisation. Hundreds of thousands of people have been actively involved in campaigning...
- Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister acknowledge the reality that her Government's water tax, and the commodification of water that is part of it, does not have the support of the vast majority of ordinary people in this country? Instead of recognising that and abolishing the water charges, we have the institution of political policing to track, observe and keep under surveillance people who are simply...
- Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: Will she confirm that the spouse of the Garda Commissioner is in charge of this unit, as reported in one particular media outlet?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Economic Management Council Cabinet Committee took place. [31775/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (20 Oct 2015)
Joe Higgins: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the money spent on surveillance equipment and technology by An Garda Síochána. [35278/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the assistance provided to a person (details supplied) currently detained and awaiting trial in Egypt. [37200/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: I want the Government to step up massively the attempt to secure the immediate release of Irish citizen, Ibrahim Halawa, unjustly imprisoned in an Egyptian jail for an unconscionable period.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: Notwithstanding what the Minister said, is it not clear that far more pressure needs to be put on the Egyptian Government regarding the need for the immediate release of Ibrahim Halawa? He is not just an Irish citizen in an Egyptian jail; he is, to my knowledge, the only European Union citizen in an Egyptian jail on a political charge. Is it not clear that the Irish Government should demand...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: The European Union has substantial trade and other links with Egypt. Has the Minister made any strenuous representations to those in the appropriate senior positions in the European Union that they should put pressure on the Egyptian Government for the release of Ibrahim Halawa? The British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, is scheduled to meet President el-Sisi this week. Has the Minister had...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings of the European Council he attended. [31773/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with other European Union heads of government on the refugee crisis. [31772/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Sustainable Development Goals (3 Nov 2015)
Joe Higgins: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the United Nations' sustainable development goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36987/15]