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- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: If that is the case, they should not be given the poison chalice that is the property tax.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: It is not true.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: That is not true.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: That is not true. On a point of order-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: The Minister must not be allowed to abuse the House.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: The Minister must tell the truth.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: I wanted 20 minutes but I got only ten because there was insufficient time. The Minister should withdraw his comment.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: Other Deputies were in a similar position.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: It is completely wrong. We have just contradicted the Minister. He should take it back.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: Who pays for those services? It is the taxpayers whom the Minister is hitting again.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: It is the same taxpayers.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: The crushing by the Government of adequate time for debating this property tax compounds the legislation's lack of democratic credibility. The reality is that the property tax has not a shred of democratic legitimacy. Fine Gael, the majority party in government, categorically ruled out a property tax in its 2011 election manifesto when it claimed that "a recurring residential property tax...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: Come on. The Taoiseach should be serious for a change. This is Committee Stage we are talking about and there are 67 amendments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach referenced President Clinton with regard to policies he advocates to short-circuit the process of recovery, as he put it. In passing, may I caution the Taoiseach about taking President Clinton as an expert?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: President Clinton presided over the disastrous deregulation of banking that gave us the crisis in the first place. Are the surveillance of EU budgets, the two pack and the six pack being discussed in the course of the Irish Presidency? This is an entirely new process that provides for strict surveillance and new powers for the European Commission to dictate aspects of the budgets of member...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: In his contacts and discussions with European Union leaders, what role does the Taoiseach play on the issue of Ireland's debts, as distinct from or complementary to that of the Minister for Finance? Both just now and this morning, the Taoiseach trumpeted as a great breakthrough the fact that the repayment of the bank debts to the troika and to the various programmes will be drawn out over a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: A price of €9 per bottle would be more appropriate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent discussions with EU leaders since the EU Summit on 22 November. [2341/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (5 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) on a community employment scheme may not receive their scheme payment or sickness benefit if they have a certified illness. [11005/13]
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)
Joe Higgins: Those to whom I refer should declare that in every constituency and local authority area the parties which are imposing the property tax will be faced with political candidates representing the mass movement of opposition to said tax, to the bank bailout and to the disastrous austerity agenda that is ruining our society in order to bail out bondholders and the European financial market...