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- Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The United Left Alliance supports the Bill and will vote in favour of it tomorrow evening. The tabling of the Bill by Sinn Féin gives us an opportunity to debate the issues arising from the household and water taxes. That is all it does, however, because it will be voted down by the combined forces of Fine Gael and the Labour Party which shamelessly continue to pursue their savage and...
- Written Answers — Personal Insolvency Bill: Personal Insolvency Bill (19 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Personal Insolvency Bill will deal with a situation in which joint mortgage holders having split up and are in a situation where one is actually paying the mortgage and the second in a position of needing to apply for personal insolvency [29875/12]
- Official Engagements (19 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent meeting with Ms Nancy Pelosi. [25363/12]
- Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans to visit Northern Ireland in June; and the issues that he intends to raise. [25362/12]
- Sale of State Assets (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the stage at which his privatisation programme is currently at and taking into account the job losses that arose from the previous privatisation and part privatisation of State assets, if he has undertaken an impact assessment study of the likely job losses that will arise from the sale of State assets; and if he has...
- Sale of State Assets (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Any progress on the privatisation of State-owned assets, meaning assets owned by the people, is not something to be pleased about. I ask the Minister to recognise the serious implications for the protection of jobs in the privatisation process. In an appalling development in 2009, 1,300 high-quality aircraft engine maintenance jobs were lost mainly at Dublin Airport when a multinational...
- Sale of State Assets (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Minister not realise preparation for the privatisation of the electricity generation has been going on for years? So-called competition has been a farcical joke, with the price of electricity increased by the regulator so that venture capitalists are tempted into the market by increased profits to create competition. What kind of a joke of a way is that to carry on? The Minister...
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I opposed the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 when it came before the Dáil and I also oppose the renewal of the various sections today. The Act was introduced after the unspeakable atrocity that was the Omagh bombing. At the time I pointed out the united response of rage and revulsion of ordinary people on the island as a whole and beyond the island, but in particular of...
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Therefore, this gives the State the power to suppress an organisation-----
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: We will come to this in a moment but before we do so let us take as an example a group of citizens with serious difficulties with how motor taxation is levied who form a group and as part of a civil disobedience protest and a demand for change advocate the withholding of motor tax for a period. This could be criminalised under the Offences Against the State Act and the progression I have...
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is a pity the Minister would not refer to billionaire tax exiles who own most of the media in the country in the same terms, or perhaps the Minister does. Does he?
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: A total of 50% of the households in the State are engaged in a major boycott of the household tax. This is a major active campaign of opposition to austerity and the injustice of their being called upon to bail out billionaire bankers and bondholders throughout Europe and the world.
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The campaign involves mass assemblies and rallies, political lobbying, major protest marches and organised opposition to effect a change in Government policies. The Minister and the Government would have the power to declare such an organisation could be repressed and those organising the anti-household tax organisation could be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life. To...
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I did not say that.
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: They sent a message to the paramilitaries.
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is rubbish.
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Government has prostituted this Parliament by underwriting tens of millions of euro to bondholders and bankers on the backs of working class people.
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Government has abused this Parliament.
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister have the same diatribe against the millionaire tax exiles?
- Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: May I speak on that issue?