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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: On the rich and super-rich.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Not on the family home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Perhaps the Minister would give the detail in respect of the household charge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: I heard the Minister. He does not need to waste time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the household charge apply next year?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Put him in restraints.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: When will the legislation for the property tax be introduced to the Dáil? Will it be before the budget or after? Is it the intention of the Government to repeal the household tax legislation currently applying before the end of the year or will it be implemented for the first half of next year? The Government has indicated that from 1 July, the property tax will apply. Does the...
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: When will that be?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will it apply to the Minister for Justice and Equality in the Dáil?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the revelations contained in the New Zealand made television documentary Who Killed Trent Keegan, by Melting Pot Studios and carried on TVNZ which details the encroachment on the land of the Masai people by safari companies; the death in suspicious circumstances of a New Zealand citizen of Irish decent Trent...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for when Ireland assumes the Presidency of the European Union on 1 January 2013. [43032/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (17 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 4 October 2012, regarding Section 535 of theTaxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the CGT exemption, if payments for crash repairs which exceed the €1,270 threshold and have been paid by the insurer directly to the insured and not paid to the garage or shop, have a tax liability; if there is not also an outstanding...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: What is the Taoiseach's perspective on the development of the general eurozone economy over the next period of one or two years? Is he aware of and has he engaged in discussions with his European colleagues about the fact that the eurozone is beginning to plunge into a new recession? Gross domestic product grew by 0% in the first quarter of this year and fell by 0.2% in quarter two and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: I stood over there some time ago and one of the Taoiseach's predecessors spoke in the same terms. In fact, he expressed a wish that I be banished to Cahirciveen for alleged failed economic policies. A few years' later, former Deputy Ahern's policies went down in flames. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is he who is engaging in fantasy economics when he mentioned one growth rate, which...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is true.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: Address the cuts.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: You are worse than Bertie Ahern now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report back on his meetings with the European Commission chief José Manuel Barroso and with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. [43024/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the European leaders with whom he has had discussions recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43027/12]