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- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, you are not.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: You are being incredibly unfair.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I did not make a reply. I was correcting-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: This is very important, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I made an immediate riposte to the Minister of State with responsibility for housing, who thought I had said she lied. I merely corrected her by reminding the House that I said no such thing.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The point that I need to put to the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Why did the chief fire officer write to the residents in July to say there was no problem?
- Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in his review of spending, if his attention has been drawn to the high cost of contract cleaners for the Department of Finance at â¬203,556.00 and also high cost of contract cleaners for the Office of Public Works at â¬704,918.90; if he has done a comparison on the amount it would cost to directly employ cleaners; and if he...
- Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he defined strategic from non-strategic State assets when making his decision on the State assets that were to be sold under the troika agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11248/12]
- Official Engagements (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I read the Taoiseach's Davos comments very carefully. Does he agree that he should apologise to the Irish people? It was not an awkwardly phrased sentence that meant something else. He stated that people simply went mad borrowing and the extent of personal wealth created on credit was done between people and the banks, a system that spawned greed to the point where it went out of control....
- Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is a fair question.
- Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: What role, if any, will the economic management council have in the implementation of the jobs programme that was announced by the Government recently? Will it have an overseeing role? Will various agencies of the State have to answer to it? How will the economic management council supervise the achievement of the target of creating 100,000 net jobs by 2015? As that has not been...
- Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The lips of the Minister for Education and Skills have not ceased to move since we started Question Time. That leads me to believe he might be playing the role of a political ventriloquist today.
- Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I will not be so impolite to say what that might make the Taoiseach. Many people consider that several billion euro of the bailout money to the banks was related to difficulties with household mortgages which the banks have not reflected in their policy of writing down debt. Is this the Taoiseach's understanding? Surely the alternative to having unfortunate people dragging mountains of...
- Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is not unusual at all.
- Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: What is the date for the referendum?
- Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I have a short point of order. When the Ceann Comhairle's predecessors were in the Chair, whenever issues like this arose, it was recognised that for certain purposes parties in opposition - under Standing Orders, this means parties of two Deputies or more - are also given the right to make a short intervention.
- Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes, that is correct.
- Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I think it is very unfair and you are breaking with precedent.
- Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes, you are.