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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government should not agree to so-called conditionality, which represents the imposition of an economic philosophy that is destroying whole sectors of Irish society, and jobs in particular. The imposition of ongoing austerity when flexibility is needed for investment in infrastructure, etc. is destructive from every point of view. I would like this point noted somewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is the EU scrutiny committee where the elected Members of the Irish Parliament, the Dáil, bring their concerns, proposals and objections and hopefully get through to somebody who sits in the Council of Ministers, the Council of Prime Ministers or somewhere. How will the concerns, proposals and objections that have arisen here today with regard to multi-annual financing be processed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ensure we are not here engaged in a window dressing exercise, is Mr. O'Sullivan saying that concrete proposals and suggestions that have come up here and objections to certain courses of action will be in a memorandum that the Taoiseach or an appropriate Minister will see? Is that how it works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: In the refractory process I wonder how much of what we say, representing the Irish people, gets onto the agenda. Hopefully, it is a meaningful exercise but I will move on to the substantive issues. Where does the Horizon 2020 and the EU framework research programme come under here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: It is under the general heading of Smart and Inclusive Growth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: The American military are not a patch on inventing language that means the opposite when it comes to the EU bureaucracy - smart and inclusive growth. In that regard, the so-called security research, which includes large grants to armaments companies in the European Union to produce weapons of mass destruction, is provided for here. I ask the witnesses to bring my concern about and total...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: I appreciate that. The Irish Presidency has committed to "work closely with the European Defence Agency". In terms of the Presidency of the EU, a neutral state, advocating this kind of stuff, I want my objections noted in that regard. When we have 25 million people unemployed billions of euro in funding should go to infrastructural development for real social progress and to employ people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: Is it the case that the Government will seek to maintain the fund?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: Can the issue of the lessons that should have been learned from the experience of workers trying to access it be brought into this process as well? I know Ms Campbell is talking about overall budgets but it is linked to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Chairman has referred to Mr. O'Leary, but I see no witness listed as Mr. O'Leary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: That is important to know.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: When will the social welfare and pensions Bill be published and when is it scheduled for debate in the Dáil? Will the Minister clarify the Government's plan to deduct at source from the income of social welfare recipients the so-called property tax? Will the mechanics for this be provided in the social welfare and pensions Bill or will there be new legislation from her Department? As...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: For clarification purposes, is the Minister saying no further legislation is needed to provide for deduction at source of the new family home tax?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Exports (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the agreement with the UK to export wind energy from Ireland. [4763/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (30 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to his announcement last December of his intention to designate the area around Rockabill to Dalkey Island as a special area of conservation, if he has discussed the implications of this with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Office of the Attorney General (29 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: We have spent 55 minutes on four questions tabled by two Deputies, which leaves five minutes. If this session finishes peremptorily the next tranche of 38 questions on the North, concerning extremely important issues, will be dealt with in five minutes. Something must be done to rationalise this situation. If we go to the next tranche the Taoiseach's reply will take up all the time...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Office of the Attorney General (29 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: How can the Taoiseach justify such a situation? I put it to him there would be great anger and resistance among civil society if he tried to do so. Is it the case that staffing limits are having a severe effect in many areas of Government, including in the Office of the Attorney General? For example, why is it taking so long to have concrete proposals on the Taoiseach's pledge to abolish...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Office of the Attorney General (29 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Seanad.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (29 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will meet the cost of the statutory redundancy and unpaid holiday pay of the workers who lost their jobs in a company (details supplied) as per the agreement between the workers and Deloitte and Touche. [4103/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Land Transfers (29 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the State's sale of part of land and assets (details supplied) [4241/13]