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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (21 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Any workers in the public sector, be they in semi-state companies such as the ESB or the public service, who do not immediately swallow the austerity agenda of the Government and the troika are now routinely bullied publicly by Government spokespersons and the capitalist press. The semi-state organisations are not encompassed by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (21 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that the Minister uses the threat of the legislation to bully public sector workers, including nurses, teachers and local authority workers, into accepting the Haddington Road agreement against their will. In the first instance, it is quite a scandal that the Minister casts himself as a William Martin Murphy-type figure 100 years after the great Lock-out of 1913 with this type...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (21 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: For the record, not a single local authority worker was sacked by Liverpool City Council when it was under the leadership of the left.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I propose to share time with Deputies Seamus Healy and Maureen O'Sullivan. The Government has orchestrated a major charade around the ending of the three-year troika programme, which meant that the Irish people were saddled with overwhelming levels of debt to rescue international bondholders and bankers from their reckless pursuit of exorbitant profits through speculation in the Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Le 30 bliain anuas tá fás agus borradh ar ndóigh tar éis teacht ar scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge agus a leithéid agus is breá sin. Tá sin tábhachtach agus tá sé tábhachtach go dteastaíonn ó an-chuid daoine agus daoine óga a bheith in ann an Ghaeilge a thuiscint agus a labhairt. Is rud dearfach é sin amach is amach....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Tá géarchéim sna Gaeltachtaí maidir le labhairt na Gaeilge agus an-chuid gnéithe beatha eile. Dúirt an Taoiseach linn gur tháinig an fochoiste maidir leis an nGaeltacht le chéile nach mór leathbhliain ó shin. Nach bhfuil sé soiléir nach bhfuil dáiríreacht ar bith sa Rialtas seo maidir le fadhbanna teanga agus fadhbanna...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Is it not the reality that the Taoiseach's choice was between the sharks in the financial markets who will gouge the Irish people for all they can get over the next few years on the one hand and, on the other, falling back on the piranhas that are the EU establishment and the ECB who represent the financial markets as well, as they have demonstrated in forcing Irish people to carry massive...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Irish and Gaelteacht has met since the summer recess. [45921/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on EU affairs has met since the summer recess. [45920/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: On what date did the Taoiseach say the Cabinet committee on EU affairs last met? There was a lot of noise at the time he was responding.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: Does that not mean that the Cabinet committee on EU affairs was in no way involved in the Taoiseach's decision not to seek a precautionary credit line on Ireland’s exit from the troika-led bailout? What does that say about how the Cabinet, or the Taoiseach, deals with crucial issues affecting our economy and our people in regard to the number of Departments, or Ministers responsible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will restore the €10,243.09 withheld from a person's (details supplied) redundancy payment on the basis that his Department claims that the person was overpaid by this amount over an 11 year period between 2003 and 2013 through no fault of their own; if he will instruct his Department to make available the basis of their...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I want to protest against another despicable use of the guillotine in the debate on the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013. Fine Gael and the Labour Party have again displayed outright contempt for the views of elected representatives who have come into the House even in the last hour and who have been crowded into very small time slots rather than engage in the type of consideration of the measures...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans and the timeframe to proceed with Dáil reform. [40870/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that contractors receiving funds from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to install water meters across the State ostensibly so that they can employ people to install said meters can simultaneously obtain workers on the JobBridge scheme funded by the Department of Social Protection leading to a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 284. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that contractors receiving funds from his Department to install water meters across the State ostensibly so that they can employ persons to install said meters can simultaneously obtain workers on the JobBridge scheme funded by the Department of Social Protection leading to a situation where contractors...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Issues (12 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: 471. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to representations made to his Department by a former patient of the hospital in Tallaght. [48182/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I thought the Chairman was going to announce the abolition of this tax when he indicated representatives of the Revenue Commissioners may not have to come before us next year. I should begin by declaring an interest and introducing myself as an unhappy customer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: And I am an unwilling customer in the matter of the property tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: I represent many decent taxpayers in that regard. Ms Feehily has stated today that this is a new tax and that "our job in Revenue is to collect taxes and duties for the Exchequer in accordance with the law". She has also stated that paying any tax is "unlikely" to generate happiness. I say "Amen" to that, and it is particularly the case when the new tax is loaded onto the people by the...