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- Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)
Joe Higgins: The diktats from the austerity policy and the troika are overriding Government responsibility and allowing Ministers to duck their responsibilities and hide. In the past week, the Poor Clares could not have been more silent on the pensions controversy than the Minister for Social Protection.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)
Joe Higgins: I can imagine if the Minister, Deputy Burton, had been in opposition, she would have brought an orchestra in to accompany her wails of distress for the pensioners who are being scarified by the Government. Did the Taoiseach not see just down the road from him at Knock Airport after Christmas the heartbreak these policies are causing, with young people leaving? Is it not clear to him that...
- Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Joe Higgins: On 28 April 1999 I had the privilege - perhaps the responsibility - of bringing to the attention of the Taoiseach of the day on the Order of Business the broadcast the evening before of a stunning RTE programme entitled "States of Fear". I would like to note with great regret the untimely passing of Mary Raftery, the author of that work and to recognise the ground breaking achievements of...
- Job Losses (11 Jan 2012)
Joe Higgins: I welcome the representatives of the La Senza workers to the Visitors' Gallery and I am in solidarity with the Vita Cortex workers suffering from similar high-handed disgusting treatment. It is breathtaking in its arrogance and disrespect towards the up to 120 mainly female workers in the La Senza lingerie stores in Dublin and Cork that the company waited until the workers had left work on...
- Job Losses (11 Jan 2012)
Joe Higgins: There are many precedents in this area. Several years ago, Thomas Cook workers were in the same situation and left in the same disgusting and disgraceful fashion. When they correctly occupied the premises, the Garda was sent in with battering rams to break down the doors. The Thomas Cook workers were paraded in front of their lordships at the High Court and threatened with Mountjoy jail if...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish everybody a happy period of rest over Christmas. I also thank staff and all those who have helped us in the House. Unfortunately, this will be a very difficult Christmas for hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens, for example, those in enforced unemployment and those in negative equity or unsustainable mortgages, and for all those who are struggling with the effects of the...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste intervene for justice in this regard?
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: If the Deputy had told us in time, we would have paid him not to record it.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Payments: Social Welfare Payments (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the input she had into the decisions to cut child benefit in budget 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40351/11]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Payments: Social Welfare Payments (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the input she had into the cuts to the back to school allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40352/11]
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am sharing time with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett only.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am sorry about that.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Boyd Barrett submitted this yesterday. I shall continue and the Acting Chairman can consider this as a joint submission by all the Deputies concerned. I am glad the Minister for Finance is in the Chamber. What we would like to have with him today is a quiet measured conversation about the issue I raise which concerns 370 workers at EBS Limited, now merged with Allied Irish Banks....
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: That is a deeply regrettable response. For the Minister for Education and Skills sitting next to the Minister to be nodding his head in agreement is also rather ironic. The prohibition of bonuses in the banks is enthusiastically supported when it relates to the high flyers and the fat cats who devastated our economy with their reckless lending and gambling. Their bonuses ranged between...
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am afraid it is going after the little people. A manager on â¬91,000 would traditionally get two instalments on 12 and 13 December of â¬7,000. He will still get this 13th instalment while the other workers will not. It compounds the whole injustice of making ordinary people for this crisis. They are not responsible for it but the victims of it. The majority of ordinary, decent,...
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: No, it is not.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We do not rant and rave.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: It does not become the Minister to divert attention from this issue.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister puts a bank employee on â¬26,000 a year gross in the same bracket as the big guys.
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 20 April 2011, the location in Dublin 15 that it is envisaged to locate the gaelscoil in 2012. [40164/11]