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- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste agree that, on the contrary, he should feel ashamed, diminished and humiliated as a result of this action?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: The reason I ask him about his responsibility for this situation is because he is the leader of the Labour Party. A member of his party occupies the position of Lord Mayor of Dublin. His party has 19 out of 52 councillors, which is the biggest group by far.
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Joe Higgins: He is also Tánaiste of this State and with his Fine Gael allies he has a crushing majority on Dublin City Council.
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Joe Higgins: In view of that, does it sit well with the Tánaiste that he has presided over the privatisation of this crucial public service-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and handed it to a company which has moved its corporate centre to an offshore island so that it does not need to publish its profits-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and can arrogantly treat the hard-pressed citizens of our capital city in this manner? The Tánaiste is acquiescing in a cringing fashion to the troika's demand for massive privatisation in our bigger public services and State agencies but does this debacle give him pause for thought before creating further debacles? What is the Labour Party going to do today to resolve this problem...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I heard the remark but the Tánaiste's chorus came in at the wrong time.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I knew the Tánaiste would try to divert the question in exactly the way he did.
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Joe Higgins: For this reason-----
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Joe Higgins: -----I refer to what does not lie, namely, the history of this issue. There was a fresh faced councillor in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s-----
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Joe Higgins: -----who put out a statement that he was the first councillor in the country to propose and win the abolition of the water rates. The same councillor, in a new manifestation-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----in Democratic Left in the late 1980s and early 1990s-----
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Joe Higgins: Seriously-----
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Joe Higgins: It is impossible to focus on an issue in a meaningful way when the various choruses constantly try to throw me off.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Stagg, I know that you-----
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Joe Higgins: His thwarted political ambitions have a lot more to do with his outbursts here than anything I can say.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: He made your seat in 1987 in campaigns against the local rates.
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Joe Higgins: In a new reincarnation, Democratic Left-----
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Joe Higgins: -----he stated that the PAYE taxpayers whom his party represented had already paid enough tax for local services and should not have to pay again. Fast forward to 2003 and Deputy Gilmore-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----as Labour Party spokesperson on the environment, stated-----