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European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: I refer to the sentence, "The Eurogroup will examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with the view of further improving the sustainability of the well-performing adjustment programme". Apart from being a commendation of the savage austerity imposed by the troika, does this mild aspiration in any way justify the elation expressed by the Taoiseach following the summit meeting? I...

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----but that elation was carried into the pages of much of the capitalist press. What justification is there for such elation? Will the Irish people as a whole be responsible for a euro less as a result of this sentence? Second, on foot of this agreement, what will happen to the approximately €30 billion that has been put on the shoulders of the Irish people to salvage Anglo-Irish Bank...

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Would the Taoiseach care to discuss the €4.5 million Fine Gael received in public funding last year?

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: For a start, I would not run to the sharks in the markets. Moreover, I remind the Taoiseach that Fine Gael received €4.5 million from public funds for his party last year.

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (28 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he will take to assist small enterprises occupied with eel fishing and curing in view of the effects on this activity arising from the ban on eel fishing. [31455/12]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (28 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Defence in the redress of wrongs process, after a General Officer Commanding has made a ruling on a case, if a third party has authority to change such a ruling. [31416/12]

Written Answers — Chonarthaí Comhairleoireachta: Chonarthaí Comhairleoireachta (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 127: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an ndeachaigh Foras na Gaeilge i gcomhairle leis maidir le Gníomhaireacht Caidrimh Phoiblí a fhostú, cé go bhfuil a oifigeach preasa féin ag an bhForas. [31186/12]

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is not our debt.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is on the Order Paper. Can Deputy Stagg read?

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Deputy Stagg should read the Order Paper which contains the Order of Business. That is where he will find it.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have a question on financial legislation but to be helpful could I first advise that Deputies Stagg and McCarthy should have taken their Milk of Magnesia this morning. It would have a calming effect-----

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----on their interventions here.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Second, they should read Standing Orders and get to know them.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Yesterday in the High Court the State, on behalf of the Government, gave an undertaking that certain financial measures in proposed legislation would not be proceeded with until the action by Deputy Pringle with regard to the European Stability Mechanism and the necessity for a referendum thereon would be dealt with. Does the Taoiseach know about that and what aspects of legislation will be...

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: What is the relationship between Cabinet sub-committees, individual Ministers and the Government? With regard to the Cabinet sub-committee on economic recovery and jobs, for example, who makes policy on the economy, the public sector and public expenditure? Does the Cabinet sub-committee make policy or is it the Government as a whole? Perhaps it is made by individual Ministers on the hoof,...

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----demanding sackings in the public sector and cuts in the wages of low and middle-income public servants whose pay has already been cut by 15% in recent years? Is it the case, by any chance, that the Taoiseach is going into a Cabinet sub-committee with Labour Party Ministers while having the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, fly kites for Fine Gael to see what further increments in austerity...

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----which have disgracefully attacked and undermined them? Is it appropriate that a Minister would lend to that, especially given that an OECD report in 2008 found that the public sector in this country was very modest in terms of the proportion of gross domestic product taken up by it?

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I am interested in the chain of command and, in particular, the chain of policy-making.

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have a brief supplementary question. How does what the Taoiseach has just said relate to the actions and activities of individual Ministers? Are Ministers in this Government free to make significant criticism by implication of Government policy?

Cabinet Committees (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Is that not what the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has done? Does the Taoiseach encourage it?