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Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----that we can expect the same obsequiousness, in the media, in the Government and elsewhere, as we had towards the United States, President Bush, etc., in the wake of the Iraq invasion?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Is that the blind eye that now will be turned to human rights in favour of doing trade deals? Why did the Taoiseach not raise-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----specific issues, for example, the case of Liu Xiaobo, who was even recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize? I ask the Taoiseach-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----to electrify the demand for human rights internationally by, before going to China, demanding from the Chinese Government that he get to visit Liu Xiaobo-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----or some prisoner of conscious really to draw attention to what is going on in China.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: That would be doing something good for humanity.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: It got quoted last year. The Taoiseach is out of the loop.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: They are jailed for it. Come on.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU special summit on 30 January 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5172/12]

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the occupation of Galway City Airport; and his further views that a decision to cut the subsidy to the airport precipitated a crisis for the airport and its workers. [8865/12]

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: The fact is that the baying hyenas in the Labour Party put me off all the time. I cannot-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I put to the Tánaiste his words to the then Minister in 2003.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: He said that by further introducing a measure to make it legal for local authorities to refuse collections to households which had not paid, the then Minister, Mr. Cullen, was introducing a compulsory bin tax.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: He said that the Labour Party would oppose the new proposal and-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----that it was opposed to back door taxation.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: By 2003 the vast majority of-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----those authorities had privatised their refuse services.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is a policy for the Labour Party-----

Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Once again Fine Gael and Labour are doing exactly the opposite of what they argued for during the many years they were in opposition - the arbitrary guillotining of crucial legislative measures. The Finance Bill enshrines all the disastrous austerity provided for in the budget of a few months ago - slashing services and attacking living standards with detrimental effects in general on our...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Can I return to the lead item on many news programmes this morning with the residents of our capital city being bullied and blackmailed by the private waste collection company, Greyhound? Greyhound, let us remember, was handed a contract for a crucial public service in our city just a couple of weeks ago. I ask the Tánaiste why, when questioned about the issue this morning, he adopted the...