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- Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Those claims were disastrously forgotten about and betrayed after the referendums in question.
- Referendum on Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I will bring an international perspective to the debate. I will offer an alternative to further disastrous austerity. I will speak about a different kind of Europe that is not dictated to by the undemocratic financial markets, but run in the interests of the vast majority of ordinary people. We need a Europe for the millions - not a Europe for the billionaires in the financial markets.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The conclusion of the planning tribunal found that corruption in Irish political life was both endemic and systemic. Does the Tánaiste understand that this has enormously increased the anger and sense of aggrievement of the majority of ordinary decent people? Is he aware that it has also enormously strengthened the boycott of the regressive household tax this week? Is he aware that those...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste understand that a fully fledged revolt of people power is under way? Does he understand that this day, four days from the deadline, 1,400,000 households out of 1,800,000 still have not registered, not for the reasons his backbenchers trotted out on the radio this morning but because a fully fledged revolt is underway?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: When will we hear an end to the excuses and have an acceptance that this tax is not acceptable to the majority of people? They know it will go to â¬1,000 and beyond which they cannot afford. They are also demanding a change in the Government's disastrous policy of austerity. Will the Tánaiste withdraw the tax and listen to them for a change?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste know the Commission on Taxation recommends a charge of â¬560 per household for the ordinary person's house? Does he know the ESRI wants a water tax of â¬500?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Well, â¬500 and â¬560 comes to â¬1,060. That is what is down the line and what people see. When the Tánaiste is threatening people with court action, they ask why he invited to his global economic forum as a guest of honour a billionaire which the Moriarty tribunal said acted disgracefully in being facilitated by a Fine Gael Minister-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----in getting privileged information to command a massively lucrative licence. In view of that, does the Tánaiste think he can, with any credibility, threaten the ordinary decent people who form the backbone of this country to drag them before the District Courts, the very people who paid their taxes for decades while the elites salted theirs away in Ansbacher and other offshore accounts?...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: On behalf of the Labour Party at least, will the Tánaiste withdraw and condemn the disgraceful suggestion that local authority workers be abused by sending them out to hound pensioners, the unemployed and decent, compliant taxpayers-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----for this regressive household tax?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Government should stop its bullying and listen to the people.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Democracy needs the consent of the governed, but the Government does not have it. The Government should withdraw the suggestion.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I did not realise that giving over information-----
- Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am also opposed to it.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I reject the Tánaiste's crude slur on the working class people of Liverpool and their councils for their heroic fight against the evils of Thatcherism-----
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----which were destroying everything social and socialist in that city. I invite the Tánaiste to read history to learn the truth.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: With regard to the ordering of time, next week is the final sitting week before the Easter period. The issues of the promissory note and potential changes thereto and the Mahon tribunal report are urgently beckoning. How will the Government provide for a proper and timely debate on both issues? With regard to the latter, is it the intention of the Government to introduce resolutions next...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Suà sÃos.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I bring the Tánaiste back to what he stated in the Chamber yesterday on the household charge when he asserted that people wished to pay. Members of the Government have been stating all week that the reason 83% of householders have not registered and paid as of last night is they all are waiting until the last minute. I suggest to the Tánaiste that he is delusional about what is happening...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I suggest this constitutes a massive revolt against the disastrous policy of austerity pursued by the Government and its predecessor. That policy is creating havoc in our society because ordinary people are being fleeced in order that the speculators might be bailed out. I put it to the Tánaiste that in a major article on the household tax yesterday, The New York Times was much more correct...