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- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----I can say why I oppose the proposal as is. It is very unfair that I cannot make a simple proposal, as I am allowed to under Standing Orders.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am making an argument as to why I oppose this proposal. There is a threat being made on a daily basis if our people vote "No". We are just waiting for a threat that we will be exiled to Siberia if we vote "No". The reality is-----
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: We need a variation of the Government's proposal so the Government can come to the Dáil before 31 May to tell our people exactly what is involved in proposals that are supposed to bring forward investment and growth and are seen as part and parcel, according to the Government, of the treaty on which it is asking our people to vote.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is fraudulent to ask us to vote on this as it is.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Anything concrete?
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: There are two very good boys in the class today.
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The sky will fall.
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: If I understood the Minister correctly, he stated the EU Commission would allow this country to work out its own method of arriving at what the structural deficit will be. What will it be in 2015 and onwards? With regard to growth, the Minister mentioned many structural adjustments and mentioned 150,000 former construction workers who should be retrained to find their way back to work. I...
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister can give his colleagues in the Labour Party a few tips.
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister should make a note of the questions as they are asked. He remembers only the final one.
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister could have corrected himself on the ESM.
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: You answered it wrongly.
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I explained to you why you were wrong.
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline his economic growth and structural deficit and national debt projections in the five years after Ireland makes its scheduled exit from the EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support and the corresponding projections for Ireland's debt to GDP ratio; if he will estimate the scale of adjustments required during this timeframe in order...
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Many eminent economists take a very different view from that of Mr. McHale. These views, which are supported with facts, figures and actual projections, indicate that severe cuts and tax increases will be necessary to reduce the structural deficit to 0.5%. Does the Minister acknowledge that many aspects of these decisions and the implementation of the targets are being taken out of the...
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Our supporters harass and bully nobody.
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I support Deputy Doherty.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should escape from his handlers for once.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: More diversions. Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Give us the Lisbon treaty jobs first - they are three years overdue.