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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should be burning with shame today as a result of her attacks on the elderly, young pregnant women and young people. It is all the more shameful that she does it on the 100th anniversary of the fight by working class men and women against the abuse of workers young and old. The Government has lined up with the very type of speculator responsible for this tragedy and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: -----instead of real measures. I ask the Minister to call off her assault on young people and replace it with real investment for real jobs and real hope, and not to patronise people, as she and the Taoiseach have been doing, to cover up a vicious assault on a group of young people who are desperately looking for employment although the jobs are not there. Does the Minister agree that 32...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Absolute nonsense.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should read history.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Who is disparaging the young people?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister is the one disparaging the young people. She has no future for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister offers up young people for slavery and free labour. That is the reality.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Free and slave labour.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister has not been too happy herself for the past couple of weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been an assessment of job displacement prior to the extension of JobBridge to 18 months and the introduction of the Gateway programme in local authorities. [44056/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that just 19.5% of interns found employment with their host organisation. It is not surprising that the bulk of the Minister's reply concerns measures to prevent abuse by employers of the internship scheme and interns. This is no coincidence because the scheme is abusive in itself, essentially providing free labour for employers. It is quite clear that the JobBridge and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homeless Persons Data (17 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: 55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the increase in the number of homeless families following the reduction in rent allowance earlier this year. [43835/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Working class people have to organise and fight back against the Government in order that the disastrous policies of austerity are changed. Tá éagóir nua á dhéanamh ar ghnáth-lucht oibre na tíre - go mórmhór daoine aosta agus daoine óga - i mbuiséad na bliana 2014. Tá ionsaithe nua fiachmhara i gceist sna polasaithe déine...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The €2.5 billion in cuts and increases in tax announced in the budget yesterday must be seen as a further tier built on the platform of savage austerity put in place in this country in the past five years. Budget 2014 is, therefore, a further twist of the austerity knife which is already buried deep in the gut of the working class, low and middle-income workers, pensioners, the...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: I have one or two questions. The Minister mentioned a number of exemptions. Will he confirm that, for everybody other than those exempt, the DIRT, at 41%, represents a quite indiscriminate tax hit, including on a young person or partners saving desperately to buy a home and who might have €10,000 or €15,000 accumulated and who might be trying to accumulate more. The Minister...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: What the Minister is trying achieve is completely unacceptable. He stated that up to €650 per annum in interest will be exempt on a five-year account. At a rate of 3%, €650 would involve a deposit of up to €21,300. That is the relief that has obtained to date. The deposit could easily be that of young people or working people trying to put a house deposit together....

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: A publicly delivered universal health care service should obtain in society and it should be a right of every citizen to have comprehensive health care of the highest quality paid for from general taxation. There should be one health service of the highest quality for all. On the contrary, in our society we have a two-tier, totally unjust health service. The wealthy, who grow wealthier by...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: With an emergency wealth tax of 5%, which the top 1% would not miss, it would amount to €2.9 billion. Every 1% of corporation tax, based on an effective rate of 8%, amounts to €500 million a year. A financial transaction tax could also yield €500 million. These amount to billions of euro the Government could plough into remaking our health service from top to bottom....

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste has no idea of the amount of illegal tobacco being consumed here.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Joe Higgins: Ba mhaith liom arís labhairt in aghaidh an ordaithe seo, a bhaineann le tabac. Is fimínteacht ar pháirt an Rialtais ligint orthu gur ar mhaithe le sláinte don chuid is mó atá sé seo á dhéanamh acu. Is ionsaí eacnamaíochta eile é, i ndáiríre, a luífidh isteach orthu siúd a bhfuil thíos leis an dúil...