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Risk Equalisation (Amendment) Scheme 2007: Motion (26 Apr 2007)

Joe Higgins: Let us grant the Deputy a minute and a half by consent of the House.

Risk Equalisation (Amendment) Scheme 2007: Motion (26 Apr 2007)

Joe Higgins: It does not; it shows the Government has not provided a proper health service.

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (26 Apr 2007)

Joe Higgins: Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that he has complied with the mandatory requirements of EU Environmental Directives in proceeding with his plans to put a prison in Thornton Hall. [15740/07]

Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I oppose the nomination of Deputy Enda Kenny as Taoiseach of a Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition Government. The very first sentence of the programme for Government states that a democratic revolution took place in Ireland on 25 February. The Oxford dictionary defines "revolution" as the overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system. That being the case, the programme...

Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and grasping bankers, imprisoning a generation of young working people in monstrous mortgages and negative equity. When that greedfest inevitably choked on its own excess, it treacherously connived with the EU, IMF and ECB to save the skins of the major European banks that had their snouts deep in the feeding trough that was the Irish property market where they slurped as frenetically...

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I express the solidarity of the ordinary people with the traumatised and suffering people of Japan. I earnestly hope that a worse nuclear disaster does not materialise and quietly salute the wisdom of our people, whose campaign in the 1970s ensured that we do not have to contend with the generation of power by nuclear fission. Only six short Hibernian nights and days have passed since the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: The programme for Government promised burden sharing so that the gambling bondholders in the Irish banks would carry at least some of the massive losses they incurred and which are now being foisted on the people. However, the Minister for Finance said yesterday that we are no longer pursuing this option. In other words the economic lifeblood of the people is to continue pouring for all the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach answered neither of my questions. What happened between last Wednesday, when the new programme for Government promised that the bondholders would take a hit, and yesterday, when the Minister of Finance said we were no longer pursuing this issue? I ask the Taoiseach to answer that when he comes to his final reply. At what stage is it unsustainable, as we have been warned by...

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: What did the Taoiseach learn at the last meeting?

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Tell us.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to speak.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes, it is to do with the order. However, it should first be pointed out for the benefit of Deputies that a translation service from Irish to English is available in the Dáil. I do not think many people are aware of that agus seachtain na Gaeilge go mór mhór, ba ceart go ndéarfaidh é sin.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: May I ask the Taoiseach a question before you do so?

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: On the Order of Business.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: On the arrangements for sittings, it is very urgent that the Government notifies Deputies about the times and days of Dáil sittings, beginning next week. We all have pressure on our diaries-----

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I say to Deputy Stagg that it is very interesting, since he is again-----

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----resiling from the programme for Government which states that we will sit on Fridays.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I do not think the Ceann Comhairle should allow voices offstage to interrupt me.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I was asking a genuine question of the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I will do so but Deputy Stagg obviously wishes he was sitting elsewhere-----