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Order of Business (15 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I ask the Taoiseach to indicate to us as soon as possible the times and the days in which we are required to be in the Dáil from the immediate period of next week onwards.

Programmes for Government (22 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach mentioned a number of mechanisms for a review of the programme for Government. It would have been helpful if his answer was circulated at the time so that we could get the detail of that and ask him more precise questions. Regarding the implementation of the programme for Government, what benchmarks has the Taoiseach set with regard to critical areas of that programme?...

EU Summits (22 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree it is rather disingenuous to blame the electorates of Germany and France for the line taken by the leadership of those countries when in fact what they want to do is save the skins of their major banks and salvage them from their reckless gambling in Irish property? With regard to so-called burden sharing, or what more of us would call "burn the bondholders",...

EU Summits (22 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is a simple point of clarification, a Cheann Comhairle. The Minister for Finance said we are no longer pursuing that option, namely, burden sharing. In reply to me earlier, the Taoiseach contradicted the Minister. Which is the Government policy?

Order of Business (22 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes, and I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing it. It was a very appropriate decision if I may say so.

Order of Business (22 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to speak, as I am entitled to do, about the Order of Business for next week. I am astounded at the lack of seriousness which the Taoiseach has demonstrated so far in dealing with the Moriarty tribunal report. Even humble backbenchers have been able to brief themselves in the last two hours on the very serious import of this report, but the Taoiseach breezes in here and says he does...

Moriarty Tribunal Report (22 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: The second report on the awarding of the second mobile telephone licence to Esat Digifone found that the Minister with responsibility for communications acted in a way that was disgraceful and insidious and had irregular interaction with interested parties at the most sensitive stages. It found that Deputy Lowry gave substantial information to Mr. Denis O'Brien which was of significant value...

Corporation Tax: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes. We must hand it to the very big business interests in this State. They have managed to make it an article of national faith that we dare not suggest that they pay a cent more from their profits to the upkeep of our society. It is a source of wonderment in this Dáil in the last day or so that Fine Gael, the Labour Party, Fianna Fáil and, apparently, Sinn Féin are prepared to lay...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: This is not simply a matter of precedent. Standing Order 26(2) (a) states that the Taoiseach, or the Tánaiste, "may propose, on motion made without notice, arrangements for sittings and for the taking of such business until such business has been disposed of; save where any such proposal is opposed, the Ceann Comhairle shall permit a brief statement from a representative from each party in...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. The last thing I want is to lock horns with you this morning. I was in the Dáil for ten years previously.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Standing Orders-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is precisely the point-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is precisely why I rose to my feet. I want a variation of the proposed order from the Tánaiste so that he can explain to us in the first instance what happened to his forced march to Frankfurt-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, I want a variation of the order so that-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: The debate on Libya is very important. I want the Tánaiste to vary the order-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and the time set aside for it. I want a slight variation from the Tánaiste's position to allow him to explain to us why at the European Council today, what the Taoiseach promised us on Tuesday has changed in regard to-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I am sorry to have to disagree with you, a Cheann Comhairle, but-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Standing Order permits a brief statement from a representative of each party in Opposition and the Taoiseach before the question is put. Traditionally-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: I want the time to be changed slightly so the Tánaiste can explain to us why it is off the agenda today that the Irish Government is seeking lower interest rates and for bondholders to take their pain, which the Taoiseach promised on Tuesday he would do in Brussels today and tomorrow. Is that not in order?

Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes, it is in order.