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- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: RTE's "This Week" programme recently highlighted a scandalous aspect of corporation tax policy in this State. The Government enables transnational corporations to use this country as a blatant Cayman Islands-like tax scam essentially to take billions of euro in profits made in many countries around the world, launder them through the Irish Republic to avail of one of the lowest corporation...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: As a matter of fact, it is the right wing that cuts corporate taxes, not the left.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Of course people in the European Union criticise the Taoiseach's corporation tax policy. Why would they not? The Taoiseach has been instrumental in causing a race to the bottom in corporation rates within the European Union and in a wider sense. For example, the Taoiseach has cosseted, in the same manner as everyone else, Proctor and Gamble, which is a fabulously profitable corporation....
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: ââassisted by the Government. This mirrors the Irish tax exiles, who are the Taoiseach's friends and who also strut around Ireland raising funds for worthy causes. However, were they to pay their due taxation, such causes would be funded ten times over without being obliged to go to them with a begging bowl.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach's corporation tax policy is unsustainable not in the long term, but in the immediate future.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Tax scams.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is stealing taxes from Africa, the Middle East and poor countries. That is the situation.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is depriving the poorest of the poor of their due tax.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should do me a favour and return to his script after all.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is now on a rant.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not deal with the issue.
- Decentralisation Programme. (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department. [1609/07]
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Following on from the issue Deputy Rabbitte raises on legislation controlling management companies, apart from the urgent need for apartment owners to have new regulations to protect their rights, the Taoiseach undertook to consider the specific situation not of apartment owners but of house owners in big estates who were dragooned into management companies and saddled with fees completely...
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Minister, Deputy Roche, also gave such an undertaking. It is an urgent situation because people are being dragged into court and hounded by the developers, essentially, masquerading as management companiesââ
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: We want to know when the legislation freeing those people from this burden will be brought forward.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: This is appropriate to the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: My question was on legislation promised by the Taoiseach. When is it due?
- Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a residency application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [8987/07]
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) who was granted a joint spouse visa for three months was only allowed to remain in the State for a period of one month. [9041/07]
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the procedures in place in his Department for providing assistance to certain members of Dáil Ãireann. [8933/07]