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- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I am sorry, but it is.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, and-----
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----arrangements for sittings that were promised in the House by the Taoiseach yesterday. I am simply asking the Tánaiste whether that still stands.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: A lot has happened since yesterday. It is a simple question.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is a simple question. Will the debate promised by the Taoiseach stand?
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I am really in order, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste could shake his head or nod.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Leases (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance when the National Asset Management Agency will be transferring the allocated properties at Clare Village, Malahide Road, to Tuath Housing. [18306/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if he has read the National Survey of Stroke Survivors 2013 published by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Irish Heart Foundation in April 2014; his views on the findings that 11% of stroke survivors requiring access to psychological services got access to them, half requiring access to speech and language therapy did not receive therapy, and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of the national neurorehabilitation strategy; and report the number of extra community neurorehabilitation teams that have been put in place since the publication of the strategy. [18353/14]
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach at all embarrassed with regard to the suggested average water charge of €240 that is going to be imposed on people?
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Labour Party promised to save Fine Gael €238, an almost identical amount-----
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----in its infamous Tesco advertisements during the most recent general election campaign.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I wish to refer to the debate which the Taoiseach promised this morning. As he quaintly - some would say crudely - stated during the election campaign, "Paddy likes to know what the story is". However, he is keeping ordinary people in the dark.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: I want the Taoiseach to be very precise in terms of indicating when the Government proposes to return to the Dáil with details relating to the charging regime that will apply in the context of this new bondholder water tax. If we do not receive the relevant information prior to the Easter recess, will it be made available in the first week following the recess? Will ordinary people...
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: On what date will matters be made clear?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: We got it abolished in the 1990s and we will do it again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The State will build them, as it did in the 1970s when we were much poorer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: Eight hundred and fifty thousand people amounts to a high percentage of the workforce, but it is a damning indictment of a low-wage economy. That is why workers are not in the tax net. The fact that the Minister does not think it significant enough to have a significant readjustment of income tax for 2014, in view of what is said to be 50,000 or 60,000 new jobs, suggests that he expects...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister mentioned progressive taxation but he has captured many of the 850,000 people who are low paid through two new taxes, on homes and on water. This runs counter to the claim of a progressive tax system overall. The argument is that the tax base needed to be widened under a fictional notion that there is some mysterious income people have outside of their wages from which they...