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Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Ceann Comhairle -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Ceann Comhairle -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I want to comply with what the Ceann Comhairle has just said. I acknowledge that he referred Deputy Wallace's request to the Committee on Members' Interests. If that committee deliberates the matter, it will come back to the Dáil afterwards. However, if the committee decides that it does not want to address the matter, it is unthinkable that we do not have time this week - I am asking the...

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: One reason from my perspective -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I know.

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: There is a malicious agenda in sections of the right-wing press -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- including some owned by tax exiles -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: As elected Members, we have a right to voice our concerns.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is imperative that in the appropriate way the Government gives time for statements on the Deputy Wallace issue. Apart from the issue of the utterly wrong actions of Mr. Wallace, as he was at the time, in regard to VAT, and the need for every penny to be repaid from whatever resources available -----

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- there is also an issue of fairness to Members of the Dáil, particularly those who have in the most dishonest, underhand and opportunistic way been targeted by some sectors of the right wing media -----

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- as if there was guilt by association, when they know well that the Dáil only allowed the mechanism of the second division for technical -----

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I would like to ask the Taoiseach about foreign policy issues that pertain to the United States. When the Taoiseach met President Obama, did they discuss the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by American war planes on their way to or from war zones? Did they discuss the fact that despite President Obama's alleged revulsion about secret renditions and the holding of people in detention centres...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: When the Chinese leadership was in Ireland, we rightly demanded to know if the Government had raised the issue of human rights with it. We spoke about the heavy hand of that regime within its own borders in China and the abuse of people and workers there. It is appropriate to ask the same questions with regard to the United States. Like every elected person, I strongly support future...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent visit to the United States of America; with whom did he meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22693/12]

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: The European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012 is entitled a Bill to facilitate in the public interest the establishment of a so-called stability mechanism. This is a false claim. The European Stability Mechanism, ESM, is not being set up in the public interest, that is, the interest of the majority of ordinary citizens in the EU's member states. Rather, it is being set up primarily in the...

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have to have more than that, a Cheann Comhairle. I had 12 minutes because my colleague, Deputy Joan Collins, stopped short.

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I am being short-changed here. Austerity is killing the domestic economies across Europe while, at the same time, big business is on an investment strike. We need a solidarity fund and we need it urgently. I propose an emergency tax of 50% on that mass of uninvested profits which were created by the labour of working people by hand and by brain. That would make trillions of euro available...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is reckless in the extreme that the Government is proposing, in a single day and with barely 4.5 hours allowed for debate, to ram through Dáil Éireann the European Stability Mechanism Bill, a Bill that exposes taxpayers to a potential liability of €11 billion and taxpayers throughout the European Union to a potential liability of €700 billion. This is not to serve as a solidarity...

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Okay. I wish first to denounce the handling of these crucial European Union issues in Dáil Éireann. The way the Government has approached the debate is scandalously inadequate. The European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 has had approximately four hours of discussion today and, incredibly, the European Stability Mechanism Bill has been allocated approximately four and a half hours...

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: We are still waiting for the Lisbon treaty jobs.