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- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Ní bhfuaireas freagra. I did not get an answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will be brief, as I was at the outset. The offering of my colleague here should also be taken.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: In the past few days, some members of Government parties have been speaking about a referendum to keep Irish Water resources in public ownership. What is the Taoiseach's attitude to that? While I am not opposed to it, is the Taoiseach as amazed as I am at the audacity and sheer neck of some of these people, who are responsible for making water a market commodity, therefore, opening it up to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the referenda scheduled for the period ahead. [35179/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach accept that the general policy of Irish Governments towards the Middle East has had zero effect? It has had no beneficial effect on the lives of those suffering in the region. Does the Taoiseach agree that this is the case because this Government and its predecessors subordinated their policies to those of major imperial powers, such as the United States, Britain, and,...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach forgot to mention Ballymore Eustace this time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Lebanese Prime Minister and other local officials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26762/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the Middle East. [26763/14]
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should just abolish them, although that will not save his colleagues.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: He is off again.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach takes the people for idiots. They are not.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste was not asked about fuel allowances, Christmas bonuses or anything else; she was asked about the crushing new burden her Government has imposed on ordinary people, including poor people. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the chief executive of Irish Water made some shape of an apology in the last few days to the Irish people for the...
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The difficulty is that the Tánaiste has reversed everything she said for ten years when she was in opposition, pretending to be the champion of working-class people. Once she got into power, she decided that she would lash another austerity tax on them in the form of water charges and not even look at the millionaires and billionaires who could afford a few hundred million to pay for...
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: People are not stupid and the Tánaiste should not treat them as such. There is an uprising of working-class people out there that the Tánaiste does not seem to recognise, although, admittedly, her Government is dazed, pummelled, punch-drunk and panic-stricken, and so it should be. The Tánaiste is staggering from one crutch to another to extricate herself from the situation....
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The court of Marie Antoinette could not be more out of touch with the suffering and realities of life for ordinary working people than the Labour Party and this Government. The Tánaiste should get real, forget her €100, and abolish the water charges forthwith.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What scaremongering?
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste take the people for fools?
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: They are the figures from the Commission for Energy Regulation.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Get real. Get off the stage.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the €100 allowance for Irish Water bills through the household benefits package. [41680/14]