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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: In the pre-crisis period, did Ireland have a reputation in the European Commission for regulatory arbitrage?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I was a member of the European Parliament for a while. Mr. Nava is correct that the Parliament and Council sign off on legislation. It is true to say that the Commission is very influential in the production of legislation. In that regard, what type of influences lead Mr. Nava to make proposals? Mr. Nava will probably be aware of the Corporate Europe Observatory, which...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: With whom do they meet?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: But not staff. Is that true?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Between end 2013 and mid-2014 there were 400 meetings between finance industry representatives and the Commission. Is that usual? Is it excessive, or not?

European Debt: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I strongly agree with the sentiments in the motion which state that the debt burden on Ireland and on other European states is unsustainable and is acting as a huge brake on the economic and social development of society. I agree also with the sentiment that it is the social and economic interests of our people that were sacrificed to private banks and to the European financial markets in...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Can the Taoiseach tell us what the water legislation will encompass? All we have so far are promises by Ministers that some legislation will, abhorrently, provide sanctions for those who cannot afford to pay the water charges or those who will never be reconciled to this new austerity tax. This country's landlords have more power over tenants than virtually any other country in the European...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach really planning to put tenants in an even more vulnerable position by giving landlords the power to raid their deposits to pay Irish Water? Has the Taoiseach forgotten the lessons of his native county and how the people of Mayo hated and rejected Captain Boycott-----

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: -----because of his form of landlordism? When exactly will this piece of legislation come forward if the Taoiseach will persist with it?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will rue the day.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I wish to put a more fundamental point to the Taoiseach in asking him if he agrees that the very concept of so-called social partnership is, in fact, faudulent and a sham. Is the idea that employers and private corporations that exploit and abuse their workers on the one hand while on the other hand the workers themselves are partners not a contradiction? The Greyhound waste company last...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: That goes on unhindered under the Taoiseach's rule, yet he speaks about partnership. Are the house-building firms and banks that saddled a generation of young working people with 40-year mortgages and unsustainable levels of repayment to finance the profiteering that went on during the bubble now their partners? The Taoiseach will remember that so-called partnership was begun by no less...

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Coming as he does from County Mayo, he should know about boycotts.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: He would not dare.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: They have not.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Just because a few idiots misbehave at the All Ireland, that does not mean one smears all 82,000 attendees.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent meetings he has had with social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41692/14]

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Captain Boycott again.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: That is rubbish. This is not fooling anybody.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: He must have been practising for his next book.