Results 1,081-1,100 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: How can workers in Ireland take the concept of partnership with any seriousness when every week new scandals of worker exploitation emerge? How can they take the Government as being serious in any sense when, for example, a Polish company which was outed a few weeks ago as a major exploiter can turn around and sack and victimise the workers who brought that exploitation to trade union and...

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is what leads up to that kind of exploitation.

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Government will proceed with the privatisation of Aer Lingus.

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is complete nonsense.

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: What about the price of a house?

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: What about prices?

Social Partnership. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is not true.

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is a fig leaf to an imperialistic occupation.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: I notice the millionaire-owned press this morning warmly embraces the Government decision to privatise the national airline. Why would it not do so given that some of its key players made a fortune in asset-stripping the previous major taxpayer-owned company the Government privatised, namely, Telecom Éireann? No doubt the directors of Greencore warmly applaud the decision to privatise Aer...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Why does the Taoiseach persist with the fraudulent assertion that privatisation is necessary for funding when he is well aware that, if necessary, public funding to the tune of billions of euro can be wisely invested in this national asset? Shamefully, under his mandate our nationally-owned pension funds are invested in the murderous armaments trade and killer tobacco industries but are not...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is untrue. The Government refused to invest in Aer Lingus.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should address the issues.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should return to his history books and learn the real history——

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: I see one of the Cork Deputies has got his voice back. Perhaps he will raise it in support of Aer Lingus workers. The Taoiseach should go back to his history books and read the real history of socialism.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: He would learn that the monstrous dictatorships in eastern Europe, with which Fianna Fáil Party Governments had diplomatic relations and its Ministers regularly visited, would be anathema to that for which the Socialist Party has always stood. The Taoiseach has evaded the issues. Why are right-wing economists — not socialists — calling for the renationalisation of Eircom following the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: If I were the Minister, I would hide in the benches over there.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: Remember the clapped out voting machines when you talk about old ideology.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: This is incredible.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: This is slanderous.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach cannot explain——