Results 4,561-4,580 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions that the Economic Management Council has met since the Christmas recess. [12200/12]
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I read in a briefing note that the function of the Economic Management Council is to manage the Government's programme in respect of economic planning and budgetary matters, economic recovery programmes, including the representation of Ireland in negotiations with the European Union, the IMF and the European Central Bank, and that additional support for the council is provided from within the...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: There the Taoiseach is, leading us on another wild goose chase employing diversionary tactics to answer the nub of the question I put to him. Perhaps I will have better success the second time. The Taoiseach is absolutely wrong that a country which does not sign the austerity pact will not have access to the ESM.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Read the treaty. If the Irish people vote "No", it is a mandate to the Taoiseach to ensure he removes any doubt there might be. I can go into the details of the ESM treaty itself.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I can go into other matters with the Taoiseach.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will not find any magic bullet in what he is looking at there. The nub of the question is that the 0.5% structural deficit is new.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but the fiscal targets and the automatic debt reduction are new.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I asked the Taoiseach why the economic council has not laid in front of the Irish people what would be the impact in 2015 and beyond of the implementation of these new facets, namely, the â¬5 billion to â¬6 billion in cuts or tax increases or a combination the structural deficit will involve and the â¬4 billion to â¬5 billion of the automatic debt reduction. Does the Taoiseach not accept...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree he has no control over those who will decide whether there is stability, namely, the financial markets? The Taoiseach signing a bit of paper committing our people to further austerity will not satisfy their thirst for more and more of the lifeblood of the resources of people in the form of profits if they fear their funds are at risk. The Taoiseach is making a...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, he is right that you signed it.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: May I just make one point, please?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: May I just finish the point, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The judge said that the Taoiseach signed off on it.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: He did not go on to say that the Government could change that-----
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: He is one leader of the "No" campaign.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should read Article 3 then.
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It was said about the treaty of Limerick that it was broken "ere the ink wherewith 'twas writ could dry". That was all the way back in 1691. I am afraid this morning that the fiscal treaty is in the same lamentable state. What is the Government going to do about the European Stability Mechanism Bill - known as the fiscal responsibility Bill - which enshrines the austerity treaty, in view...
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Clearly-----
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It has been, but unfortunately-----
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Unfortunately, we have a Bill that is now redundant.