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Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I never engage in the farcical gameplaying that goes on generally when an adjournment of the Dáil is proposed.

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I assure those sections of the media who will misreport it that I certainly have enough to keep me going over the next few weeks-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----to serve my constituents and the people of the country who will have me as busy as I have been for the past three months.

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I propose to the Government a variation whereby before the adjournment today it allows two issues to be dealt with. With regard to the household tax, the Minister, Deputy Hogan, has wisely cancelled his trip to Paris. Perhaps he was afraid of tripping over a guillotine, not there but when he came back in two or three days time. The fact is-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----there is a misrepresentation of the reality and the real figures and the Minister must confirm this.

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: A total of 1.8 million households are due to register-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----not 1.6 million-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: The other issue I wish to raise is that another multinational company, Game, has peremptorily shut up shop and left workers-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: In that case I will rest it there but-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: This is the third time in almost as many months that workers have been disgustingly treated like this and legislative provisions are needed -----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I ask the Minister to reply.

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Speculators and the financial institutions.

Order of Business (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: And the workers.

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the 1.8 million households liable to register for the household tax that have done so. [16769/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 428: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have registered for the household tax that were liable to pay the tax; and the number that were exempt. [16770/12]

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Government should have given us more notice that this announcement was to be made.

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I welcome the fact that the Government has had to bow to reality and to the democratic rights of the Irish people. I am pleased that the referendum on the fiscal compact will allow for a vigorous debate among the Irish people over the next few months.

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: The debate will demonstrate clearly that permanent austerity is proposed in the fiscal compact. If the structural deficit targets for 2015 that are proposed in the compact are fully implemented, further cuts of €5.7 billion will have to be made in that year or equivalent cuts will have to be spread out over a few years. In other words, further disastrous damage will be caused to the...

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: I believe this treaty will undemocratically bind future Governments to austerity, even though they may have campaigned and been elected on the basis of their opposition to it. In the course of the debate on the treaty, the Government must explain clearly why it agreed to insert in the European stability fund treaty a clause that would deny any state not ratifying the fiscal compact access to...

Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Government had and still has a veto on that blackmail clause. The European stability mechanism treaty must come before this Dáil, as must the changes to the treaty on the functioning of the European Union that are required to copperfasten all of this. When the Dáil votes on those matters, it will be deciding whether to foist this blackmail on the Irish people as a weapon to try to...