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Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: When he was in opposition, the Taoiseach never opened his mouth against the profiteering that was taking place in the housing market.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach continued to pay them-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Residential Care Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: We are talking about a human being with very specific needs, as we are whenever a difficult situation such as this arises. The problem is that this woman will not make the necessary progress if she is not receiving treatment in a location that is specifically geared towards the special needs of a person with autism. That is the issue, not the quality of care or the staff, whom her family...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Residential Care Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making budget provisions for specialist care available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [30837/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Residential Care Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: My question relates to a 40 year old autistic woman, whom I shall call Emma, who received a diagnosis only six years ago. As the Minister of State knows, a highly functioning autistic person can be bright and intelligent while also facing very serious issues in regard to social adjustment and so on. To clarify, Emma is currently being cared for in St. Stephen's Hospital, not St. Finbarr's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Residential Care Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: I accept that the Minister of State simply made a mistake. The problem here is not the quality or commitment of Emma's carers. In fact, her mother, who is in the Gallery today, has expressed her appreciation for what the staff have tried to do. The problem is that Emma is not being cared for in the appropriate location, having been dealt with more as a patient with mental health or...

Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (20 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: People who I respect and who had many dealings with Coillte were massively critical of the leadership and management of the organisation. This was the fault of successive Governments which allowed them to do this. Bringing the Coillte workers, woodland devotees and people who appreciate our woodlands to the heart of the management of a reformed entity is the critical issue. The Minister...

Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (20 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should pull back from all privatisation.

Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (20 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the possible sale of State assets to be discussed at a meeting of the Government. [29692/13]

Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (20 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: We learned of the decision not to proceed with the privatisation of Coillte and its harvesting operations at the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance yesterday. I really welcome the fact that the Government was forced to recognise the massive opposition that existed around this country to any moves in the direction of the privatisation of our woodlands. That message came...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: I thank the Deputies who supported my motion and contributed to the debate. The great Dublin Lock-out of 1913 is an event that today embarrasses the political establishment and discomfits in particular the Labour Party and the leadership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU. The ruthlessness of that section of the Home Rulers and capitalist nationalists that was involved with the...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Working class people should mobilise to stop this austerity juggernaut of destruction of society, living standards, jobs, etc. and fight for an alternative way of organising our society.

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Some in the Labour Party have the audacity to suggest that Connolly and Larkin would comfortably sit on the Labour benches were they present today. One year after the Lock-out, as the capitalists of Europe lined up to slaughter millions in a struggle for their markets and profits, James Connolly called for "the final dethronement of the vulture classes that rule and rob the world" and...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is a pity so many of those young people are exercising their talents in the United States and Australia.

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Perhaps it should be outside Oxfam because he knew a lot about starving poor people.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: For many decades I and the Socialist Party have called for the abolition of the Seanad, and pointed out many decades ago that it is an utterly undemocratic and elitist institution in how it is elected, or more correctly, selected. As we know, the bulk of its members are elected by a tiny electorate of councillors, Dáil Deputies and outgoing Senators with a further 11 appointed by the...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Deputy McNamara is making a show of himself.

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is a Socialist Party motion only.

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: Deputy McNamara should tell us a few of the good things about William Martin Murphy as well.