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Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Joe Higgins: That is why it should not be rushed through today. There should be a proper discussion and debate on it.

Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Statements (28 Jan 2016)

Joe Higgins: There is one issue and only one issue on which I am in agreement with the majority of members of the banking inquiry committee. This was that an extraordinary amount of work, research, personal stress and communal stress went into the workings of the committee, including the work by the personal staff of the members of the committee. I wish to acknowledge warmly and appreciate the work of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his communication with the President of France, Mr. Francois Hollande, or with the ambassador of France to Ireland, His Excellency, Mr. Jean-Pierre Thébault following the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris, in France on 13 November 2015. [2804/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: The monstrous atrocities in Paris at the end of 2015 revolted the vast majority of humanity, including people in the Moslem world. It is vital to understand that, given that the perpetrators claim to act in the name of Allah, the god of those who believe in Islam. Does the Taoiseach agree, nevertheless, that one has to put the horror now unfolding in the Middle East, and all the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): School Enrolments (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: An dtuigeann an Taoiseach go bhfuil fadhb mhór annso agus an dtuigeann sé go bhfuil an-mhíshástacht i measc an-chuid daoine maidir leis an smacht atá fós ag na heaglaisí i gcúrsaí oideachais agus ins na scoileanna? An dtuigeann sé go bhfuil an-chuid gnáthdhaoine nach féidir leo leanaí a chur chuig scoil gan a bheith...

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. As it happens, I have two or three brief issues which I wish to raise. With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I will raise them one by one.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: First, specifically under Standing Order No. 26(3) relating to the business of the Dáil, we are enabled to ask the Taoiseach questions about business, the Order Paper and about arrangements for sittings. What is the arrangement for the sitting of the Dáil tomorrow? It is intended that it will sit at 9:30 a.m.? For how long does he intend it to sit tomorrow? Does he intend to...

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: That is my first question.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: I am very much within order. That is why I brought the Standing Orders with me.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: As for the arrangements for the sitting, will the Taoiseach come to the Dáil to announce when he is going to the President?

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said something I did not hear. Is it that he will deal with the Order of Business tomorrow?

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: On his way to the Park, in case the Taoiseach meets an anti-water charges protest, can I suggest he takes his AK-47 for protection?

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: Judging by what he had to say in the Sunday Independent, he has so much energy he could do with a run around the Park before he is unleashed on the unfortunate people of Tipperary. However, the Taoiseach would want to be careful because, as a self-confessed addict, the Minister might try to stage a coup on the way to meet the President.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should seriously tell us what time he intends to dissolve the Dáil because there are activists all over the country waiting to start their activities, put up the posters, etc.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Joe Higgins: I wish everybody the best and I wish nobody ill but I cannot wish anybody here good luck in the next four weeks for obvious reasons, politically speaking. In terms of the last five years and what dominated this Dáil, would the Taoiseach like to say "Sorry" to the people for making them pay the bankers' debts with the savage austerity that accompanied it over that period of time?