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- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: That Ireland was a State groaning under the weight of moral strictures but at the rotten heart of the Irish establishment of that era, there was no morality. Likewise, the establishment of the EU is loudly proclaiming today that at the heart of its institutions are the values of solidarity, equality, justice and democracy. This is shameless mendacity when the cold reality reveals that the...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: There are 12 minutes left.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: It stretches credibility beyond the limit that the right-wing political parties in this State and virtually the entire capitalist press hail as a glorious triumph an arrangement that shackles the Irish people to a gigantic millstone of toxic Anglo Irish Bank debt of €31 billion and interest over a 40 year period. The consequences are ongoing savage austerity that is already destroying...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): G8 Summit (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he was involved in discussions with British Prime Minister in relation to Fermanagh being chosen as the host for next years G8 Summit. [2342/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the jobs per acre potential in forestry, the reason for the lack of investment in this sector in view of the stated commitment to job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6958/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff earning more than €100,000 per year who have taken early retirement from the EBS since the begining of 2012. [6733/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on an incident detailed in the press statement (details supplied) issued by representatives of the International Transport Workers Federation; and if he will issue a directive that ships' crew in similar situations will be supported by the Gardaí and his Department. [7083/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Employment Rights Issues (12 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on an incident detailed in the press statement (details supplied) issued by representatives of the International Transport Workers Federation, the response of the authorities and the demands made by the ITF representative of his Department. [7082/13]
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has any intention or plans of involving Irish forces in the current conflict in Mali. [6095/13]
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: I wish to make a point of order.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: There is a serious point here. When the Taoiseach spoke, he said that if the Dáil wanted, he would put a motion regarding this issue to the House-----
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: -----to see whether the Dáil agreed that not just children as yet unborn, but their children in turn, should carry the Anglo toxic debt. He did not say what his proposal was-----
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: Can somebody from the Government tell us, for a change, when such a motion will be put forward and when a debate will be afforded in Dáil Éireann so that we can repudiate this disgraceful deal?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: The Government will abolish the property tax unless-----
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: No, it does not.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (7 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the invitation of NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Mr James Appathurai, to speak at a defence seminar organised as part of the Irish Presidency of the EU. [6096/13]
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: Let us hope KPMG does the grand job it did with Irish Nationwide.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: This is a chaotic and grotesque way to run a State by any standards. It is symbolic, however, of the anarchy by which the financial markets operate and symbolic of the dictatorship of those financial markets, in front of which Governments all over Europe, most notably the Irish Government, prostrate themselves to do their bidding while bleeding working class people to bail out their system....
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: Some 800 workers will lose their jobs tomorrow. Is that technical?
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Joe Higgins: Government Members have disgraced themselves again.