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- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: When did Lenin advocate attacks on people's family homes and on the peasant homes?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Of course. The Minister is just doing what the bondholders want.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: They would not publish that report until recently.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: No it is not; it is telling the truth.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is mendacious in the extreme to refer to this new imposition as a local property tax. It is not levied locally; it is levied by central government, and central government is putting one of the most centralised authorities in the State, the Revenue Commissioners, in charge of administering and attempting to collect it. It is not in any sense a local tax; it is a bankers and bondholders...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: I raise a point of order. Standing Orders state that every amendment must be relevant to the motion to which it is proposed and must be directed to omitting, adding or substituting words. It is also stated in Standing Orders that no amendment which is equivalent to a direct negative shall be accepted. The amendment in the name of Deputy Boyd Barrett and in my name, suggesting a realistic...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Better still, drop the planned tax.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: We will go the way of Captain Boycott on this.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: We do not want the pesky natives bothering the EU.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (18 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach explain how the Economic Management Council functions as a sub-committee of the Cabinet? Is it the case that virtually the entire budget announced for 2013 was decided by four members of the Cabinet and announced to the full Cabinet only at the last minute? Is it the case that the Economic Management Council has acted in a secret and authoritarian fashion? From what we...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Back to the blueshirts, is that it?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: What property has been destroyed of late?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Twomey should read our website.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill is one of the most odious Bills to come before the Dáil in many a year. It is a tax to transfuse even more of the economic lifeblood of ordinary Irish people to the parasitic bondholders and bankers in the European financial market system and those gamblers who lost in their speculation on the Irish property bubble. Two Quisling Governments have...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (11 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider revising Private Security Authority licence fee costs for access control and CCTV in view of the financial pressure this is putting on sole trader electricians and small businesses. [55547/12]
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Budget 2013 constitutes a savage new twist to the pernicious austerity agenda relentlessly pursued so far by the Fine Gael and Labour Party coalition Government, but at huge cost to ordinary people and to society. It is all simply to rescue the European financial market system together with Irish bankers and speculators from their reckless super profit-seeking gambles in the Irish property...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: It portrayed six specific attacks, ranging from cuts in child benefit to VAT increases, every single one of which Labour has swallowed. Do they remember what the end of the advertisement stated?
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: The end of the advertisement stated, "Fine Gael: every little hurts!". Is the Labour Party suffering such delusion that it believes the savage cuts by Fine Gael hurt, but, when Labour blesses those cuts, somehow they do not? Is the Labour Party suffering from delusion that savage cuts in the living standards administered by Fine Gael might hurt badly, but when supported by the Labour Party,...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: Hopefully we will hear no more of this ruse. Calling it a local property tax is another cynical ploy. If it is a local property tax, why is its collection centralised in the Revenue agency, which is, itself, highly centralised at national level? That of course arises from a recognition that the imposition of the household tax last year was resisted bitterly by an active boycott. To this...
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is the sickness of the financial markets system the Government is attempting to bail out.