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- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What undermines democracy in the country is establishment political parties lying through their teeth to ordinary people at election time. The Tánaiste had a Tesco ad in one hand, promising no Fine Gael water charges, and in the other hand an application form to join a Fine Gael Government with water charges. Is it any wonder the Labour Party was eviscerated in Dublin West and Dublin...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The contempt with which the Minister and the Government are treating the elected representatives of the people is breathtaking.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: He started by saying this was a very important day for the country because of the proposals on Irish Water and water charges he was introducing. Then he walked out and left the representatives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to speak to thin air, as far as he is concerned. He has come in with his array of political trickery to try to convince the people that something...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I have no doubt he has gone to the media to sell his snake oil trickery in order to get out before the Opposition, as if the Government has not had enough access, over the past 24 hours, to all its favourite journalists, spinning and leaking everything the Minister said here today to get the story out first. It is unacceptable, and the Minister should be sent for immediately.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is outrageous. They will have the landlords in the country rack-renting.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister cannot say that for another Government. He cannot decide that.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: That law can be repealed.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Fix it then; tax the millionaires.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: A contribution has already been made.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is responsible for the trouble over the past month.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 98. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include the Westbank Orphanage in Greystones, County Wicklow, in the inquiry into the mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44416/14]
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: They will not tolerate any more of this last-----
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----massive sting of the Government's austerity taxes. The Taoiseach needs to be told that and we need the time to do it. Therefore, there should be no guillotine.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The last time the Taoiseach imposed a guillotine in respect of water charges was when he was introducing his bondholders' water tax. That decision was to fill the black hole left by the billions transferred to bondholders in the European financial markets. There is no mystery about that. It means that the Taoiseach did not hear the representatives from this side who would have told him...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: People will no longer tolerate being lied to in general elections - pretending there will be no water charges and then stabbing them in the back, as the Labour Party did. The reason we need more time is that the latest political trickery the Government is up to, which involves pretending to people that water charges will only cost them a crooked halfpenny and telling them they should not be...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: For example-----
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I would like clarification of how the Taoiseach intends to deal with No. 19a, the motion on water sector reforms. I assume it is on the Order Paper for tomorrow. When will Members of the Dáil be furnished with that report? For several days Government Ministers have been placing stories on water charges - the changes they propose to make and the alleged good news they propose to give -...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is all over the newspapers already.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Discussions (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Economic Recovery and Jobs was last held and when is the next one scheduled for. [35186/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Discussions (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Over recent months, the Taoiseach and his Government have majored on the so-called "recovery" they say has taken place in the economy. There has been endless propaganda from the Government side. Assuming the Taoiseach gets a chance to talk to ordinary people as he goes about the country, do they tell him what they tell us, which is that they do not feel that recovery and that life is still...