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Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is incredible. It denies the Members of the House, under Standing Orders, the right to have discussed reasons this Bill should not be taken today, as I have outlined. What the Government is trying to lash through here today is a grotesque abuse of Parliament, and it will come back to haunt our people because of the medium and long-term consequences of this Bill, of water taxes and so on.

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: I move amendment No. 1:That we delete the words after "that” and substitute "the Second Reading of the Water Services Bill not be taken today as the time set aside by the Government is totally inadequate to deal with matters if such seriousness as the imposition of water taxes on householders and the transfer of resources to a value of billions of euro from local authorities to Uisce...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: -----the Government seeks to ram through all Stages of this Bill today which has huge implications for our people through the imposition of new taxes for water into their homes and wastewater out of their homes and through the transfer of billions of euro of assets from local authorities to Uisce Éireann without proper procedures or preparation. It is quite incredible that in the week...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle clarify Standing Order 125?

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: On 25 May 2011, a full two and a half years ago, I raised the pyrite crisis with the Taoiseach during Leader's Questions, with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government sitting beside him. At that stage, the Government was, to put it mildly, not anxious to get involved and was attempting to adopt a hands-off approach to the problem, hoping that some other agencies...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: May I object as well?

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is a Bill providing for a new draconian tax on ordinary householders, not just for their water in but for their wastewater out.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is quite incredible that the Government is lashing this Bill through.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is shameful.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: I ask the Taoiseach to be specific on this question. Will the Government introduce trade union recognition legislation to require employers to recognise and negotiate with workers in their places of employment who agree and move to set up a trade union?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: I will just wait until the Taoiseach finishes his consultation with Deputy Bannon.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: Milne Foods provides essential supplies such as vegetables, potatoes and salads to HSE facilities such as Tullamore Hospital, which represents a big contract for the company. Does the Taoiseach find it acceptable that this company can then refuse to go to the Labour Court when requested to do so and when the workers and SIPTU, which represents them, want the company to do so? The HSE has...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: I have no problem with the Taoiseach's meeting those organisations, but he did not meet working people who are dealing with austerity.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The company's representatives will not go.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: They will not go.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said the Government does not intend to go back to the previous model of social partnership. Social partnership was never more than a fraudulent concept by which big business and financiers were allowed rip-roaring profits - the fruits of speculation. It allowed for the gouging of young people on the property market but held wages to restrained limits. It was not a partnership...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met any of the social partners since the July recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40869/13]

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government did not put in enough investment. It is very simple.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government is taking the lead from the troika the very same weekend it contends we are free of the troika.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (17 Dec 2013)

Joe Higgins: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 4 December 2013, if he will instruct the City of Dublin and County of Dublin Education and Training Boards to provide the information sought. [53973/13]