Results 2,441-2,460 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Fianna Fáil leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, said something important today.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: He said up to €175 million might constitute the net income next year from water charges if there were 100% compliance. The Government should forget it. It will face a mass national non-payment campaign that will put Captain Boycott in the shade. The Tánaiste had better get wise to the anger being expressed. It will not be reconciled by the Government’s paltry...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: I want the debate to take place today or the Government to set aside time tomorrow. This issue must be dealt with and dealt with now.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Bertie Ahern could not do better.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: It would not buy a pack of nappies.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the downward pressure on wages and working conditions at Greyhound Recycling and other private waste collection operators. [34328/14]
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, will disappear. He should listen to what I am saying.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Moving along quickly, some 10,000 houses will be built in four years as against 90,000 on the housing waiting list. The figures from the 1970s should put the Labour Party, especially, to shame. In 1971, 4,789 homes could be built. That increased to 6,000 in 1973 and 8,794 in 1975. At the time of less wealth in Irish society, the Government could build as many houses as the current...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: This morning the Tánaiste and Minister for Social protection, leader of the Labour Party, had the audacity to suggest the €5 a month increase in child benefit is in recognition of the sacrifices made by families over the past six years. She insults the women and children of this country by putting a value of a paltry €5 per month per child on the six years of savage...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if GMC Sierra or Uisce Éireann are contributing financially towards the cost of the Garda mobilisation into the north east of the city of Dublin to enforce the installation of water meters in the face of organised protests in those communities. [39454/14]
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Deputy does not represent them. He has done nothing for three and a half years.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: They have done nothing for three and a half years.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, it is a pity the Deputy did not realise that earlier.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----through measures that could have been taken in the building industry. This is a tax on poor people addicted to nicotine and another attack on working class people who, unfortunately, are addicted to nicotine. It will make their life even more difficult and more of a struggle than it is currently. The Government has shown its hypocrisy in the issue by giving a break to a section of...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Every year, I oppose this measure. I do so again this year and I intend to call a vote. I oppose 40 cent added to the price of 20 cigarettes because it is monumental hypocrisy for the Government to pretend this is primarily a health measure. It is no such thing and it is yet another naked revenue grab under the cover of health. The same Government put the interests of the financial...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: I apologise, I am referring to the former Minister for Health. Long before it became a fact, I supported the banning of all advertising of tobacco products. I strongly support the plain packaging proposals, which I hope will be pushed through despite the obvious strong lobbying by the industry behind, and in front of, the scenes. I support genuine measures to help those addicted to give up...
- Allocation of Time: Motion (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, provided that we get a fair speaking time.
- Allocation of Time: Motion (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, as long as the Government Members do not take up the entire time and there is adequate opportunity for Deputies to speak.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: It will not save you.