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Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: You are. There are long-standing precedents here.

Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: When the Green Party and Sinn Féin did not have the requisite seven Deputies in a previous Dáil, they were called as a matter of form on occasions like this to make short statements. That is the precedent.

Official Engagements (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the 25-29 January 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5174/12]

Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: It was bad enough when the Labour and Fine Gael Government went back on its previous and many declarations in opposition to guillotines in this Chamber. Now, it is bringing the guillotine into the committee room. These issues need as much debate as the members of the finance committee, which is a substantial committee in terms of its membership, deem to be necessary. Therefore, this is not...

Written Answers — EU Summits: EU Summits (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if he had discussions on the margins of the EU summit on 30 January about the promissory notes relating to Anglo Irish Bank. [5173/12]

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: On the same issue, legislation will obviously take time but, because of the critical importance of this issue, will the Taoiseach provide time either today or tomorrow at the latest for a debate on the proposals made by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform this morning? Has he any concept of the depth of treachery to sell billions of euro worth of State assets to pay the bad...

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: We need a debate on the principle of-----

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----selling off assets to satisfy speculators in Europe.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should not come in here and pretend this is for the good of the Irish people to provide cheaper energy prices.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Conscript them.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Let us have conscription.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: At 10.27 a.m. on Friday, 17 February, the executive director of Amnesty International, Mr. Colm O'Gorman, e-mailed the Taoiseach to ask him to raise specific cases with the Chinese Prime Minister and Vice President-----

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I will.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach told me during Leaders' Questions that he had not had any contact with Amnesty International when he had. He must correct this statement.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I asked if the Taoiseach had had contact with its representatives and he said he had not. He must correct that statement.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: That is a new precedent.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: While I have no objection to speaking after Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, it used to be in the order in which the questions appeared.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Does this mean all Members must now table masses of questions to be first in line?

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: What does that have to do with the questions asked?

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: The same thing used to be said about the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, when she was in opposition.