Results 1-20 of 30 for destroyed speaker:Joe Higgins

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...to the cesspool of the markets or relying on the neoliberals of the EU and ECB is not the way forward for the economy and the people and it is a question of repudiating this massive debt that is destroying the economy and provoking the horrific austerity the Government is imposing, which will continue for years to come to destroy the livelihoods of our people and the future of young...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Are they prepared to sit here and see soldiers and towns and local economies destroyed in this way? I am asking the Government to reconsider. What is the rationale for the decision when it cannot even use an economic argument?

Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----which were destroying everything social and socialist in that city. I invite the Tánaiste to read history to learn the truth.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: What property has been destroyed of late?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government should not agree to so-called conditionality, which represents the imposition of an economic philosophy that is destroying whole sectors of Irish society, and jobs in particular. The imposition of ongoing austerity when flexibility is needed for investment in infrastructure, etc. is destructive from every point of view. I would like this point noted somewhere.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...the number of Irish Water application packs that were returned to sender; if Irish Water has identified the number due to incorrect names, addresses or other information; if Irish Water has destroyed returned post that was marked return to sender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41555/14]

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)

Joe Higgins: There is one cure for mass unemployment. That is job creation. The Government needs to discontinue its austerity policies, which are destroying tens of thousands of jobs in the domestic economy. That approach is the reason an additional 200,000 people are on the live register, compared to three and a half years ago. The creation of real jobs with decent wages is the answer to unemployment.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...'s hands. All he has to do is pick up the phone and make Shell lift the injunction, thus letting the five decent men home to their families. He should make Shell process the gas where it will not destroy the communities and the environment. While he is at it, the Taoiseach should tear up the contracts which have sold out this fabulous resource to the major corporations. Let us begin a...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Joe Higgins: ...to 40 years, shackling them to this millstone of debt. If nothing else might have prompted intervention, did Professor Honohan find any concern for the plight of this generation, which was almost destroyed by this profiteering?

Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...their workers and then victimised them when they sought their rights on union advice. This follows from the Irish Ferries debacle. I refer to a regime of proposed labour legislation that would destroy collective bargaining and force workers into individual contracts, one by one, at the boss's behest. It would destroy unfair dismissal protection for all workers in places of employment with...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: This is not the way to go about regenerating an economy that is being destroyed by the Government's austerity policy. Shortly after I entered the Dáil in 1997 a series of measures was begun by Fianna Fáil to cut taxes for property speculators and developers which led to the catastrophic property bubble which led to the blackmail prices young people were charged for the right to have a roof...

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: The issue is not whether Mr. Connolly did or did not do what the Minister claimed. The fact is that the Minister cannot prove it. The reality is that he has set out to destroy the Centre for Public Inquiry because the Government does not want it investigating issues that have embarrassed it, such as the case of the Shell pipeline, or does not want to risk embarrassing the Minister in the case...

Commemorative Events. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...the ownership of those assets from the people to international speculators? This has happened with the telecoms industry and the Government proposes to do the same with the national airline. It has destroyed the national sugar beet industry by giving it to national and international speculators. As he stood at the GPO on Easter Sunday and thought of men and women who went out to overthrow...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: ...hold which allowed the racketeering that blew up the property bubble that brought the crash and that in turn led to the disastrous austerity policy that this Government is implementing which is destroying living standards and services? Is he aware this new raft of taxation is being put on the shoulders of the innocent majority to bail out the failed property gamblers? Does he see the...

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Ms Teresa Treacy is in Mountjoy Jail as we speak. She was thrown in there by order of a judge because she is not prepared to allow the ESB to destroy a swathe of trees through her forest at Clonmore, County Offaly in order to erect massive pylons and power lines. Conifers have already been cut. I have personally seen the destruction that has been done. The next tranche for the chop is a...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: In an article dated 11 February 2001, Mr. McWilliams summarised how cheap credit flowing into a country can destroy it with illusions of wealth. He colourfully referred to the Spanish conquest of Latin America and the ransom which the Incas paid for their unfortunate emperor. In one week, he wrote, "the Spaniards plundered more gold [from there] than the entire continent of Europe produced...

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...shackles the Irish people to a gigantic millstone of toxic Anglo Irish Bank debt of €31 billion and interest over a 40 year period. The consequences are ongoing savage austerity that is already destroying livelihoods, living standards, communities and individuals. It bears saying again that these were the private gambling losses of bankers and bondholders as they speculated wildly...

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

Joe Higgins: ...Éireann? No doubt the directors of Greencore warmly applaud the decision to privatise Aer Lingus. After all, they made a fortune from another Fianna Fáil privatisation, never mind that they destroyed the beet and sugar industries and the jobs of hundreds of workers in the process. The millionaires who owned Irish Ferries will also warmly support the Government's privatisation plans and...

Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...from the right-wing, neo-liberal economic policy of this Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats Government. The Government is fully in tune in this sense with the EU Commission which would like to destroy every vestige of public ownership of services and industry within the European Union. There is no other economic reason for the proposed privatisation. The Minister for Finance, Deputy...

Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...EBS Limited, now merged with Allied Irish Banks. These are very low-paid and middle-income workers. They are coal-face workers, not the erstwhile high fliers who expanded the property bubble and destroyed the economy in the process. For 45 years workers in the company were paid their annual wages in 13 equal instalments. Therefore, after nine years of service, a worker on a gross income...