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Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: Of course we can support the capital gains tax increases, but they are minuscule. They are puny and pathetic, compared with what would be introduced if we had a Labour Party or a socialist party in a majority in the Dáil or as a significant Opposition. The Government would not dream of coming to the House with such rubbish to pretend to be doing something radical-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----when the whole thrust of the budget is to continue the disastrous austerity policy and bail out the bankers and speculators at the cost of working class people.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: Does Deputy Martin want more tax on the rich?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: The protesting Labour Deputies duly doth protest too much entirely tonight. They have come in a cohort to drown out, in reality, not so much their dissident colleagues, as they have just been trying to do, but the weakness of their fundamental economic and political position.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Labour Deputies have been in a hapless position since March 2011, when they took the fatal decision that they would continue the disastrous strategy of Fianna Fáil to bail out-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----bondholders and bankers at the expense of the working people they were supposed to represent, and they have defended the indefensible since then.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste lectured the House on procedure, etc. He came up with a mishmash of three or four motions-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: We have heard complaints from Deputies all night about motions, some of which they agree with and some of which they disagree with, being taken in one vote. It is quite ridiculous. The Tánaiste lectured the House and the cacophony on my right supported him-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----in regard to some of the alternative and solidly evidenced proposals that we on the left tabled. The Deputies should not demean or downgrade the information that is given through parliamentary questions from the Department of Finance, which is what was done tonight. For example, when I submitted a question to the Minister for Finance asking for a certain schema to be worked out in...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: If I were Deputy Humphreys I would not have the audacity to make that point, as he spent his contribution simply abusing other Members of the Dáil, including his dissident colleagues. He has some neck.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: In case Deputy Humphreys has not done so, he should read the work of Connolly and Larkin, the founders of his party. He will see that he is dealing with-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----a sick financial market system whereby-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----we currently have €3 trillion in accumulated profits which they refuse to invest on a Europe-wide basis in jobs and services.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: I think this is the 12th budget that-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach could give five minutes by diktat of the Government. He can do that.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: This is the 12th budget for which I have stood up in this Chamber and I always have come in at this time to deal with the same hypocrisy that is before Members. This has nothing to do with health in terms of cigarettes or alcohol addiction. It pertains to a grab for funds and, therefore, it must be opposed. This is part of a €1,000 per year grab, as it will affect ordinary...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: As part of the Government's disastrous austerity agenda, I oppose it.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Government can give us an extra five minutes on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any discussions he has had with the new Chairman of the Constitutional Convention. [49713/12]