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- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is amusing that the landlord becomes the victim and the tenant should be the payer.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: In the Taoiseach's extraordinary letter to the President of the European Council, Van Rompuy, he stated that by not imposing losses on unsubordinated bank bondholders, the Irish people have paid an extraordinarily high price to protect the wider European banking system from contagion. Is it not pathetic for the Taoiseach to appeal to a leading eurocrat on the basis of being prepared to bleed...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We are paying the gamblers' losses.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: It was to save the speculators from their losses.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: If.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Omniscience even.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Legally.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The markets are threatening us.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Everything can be boiled down to a few euro a week - electricity, gas, heat, the children's clothes, even child care. The reduction in child benefit is more than a few euro a week by the way. That is completely spurious. People in Kerry, Mayo and Dublin understand that nothing is free because they pay for it already. We have running water in our homes because taxpayers funded and continue...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is wrong regarding the privatisation of bin services up and down the country. The vast bulk of local authorities had privatised their bin services before the Dublin protest.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I invite the Taoiseach to look at the anti-water tax campaign between 1994 and 1996 when a massive boycott by the people of Dublin forced a Government with his party in it to get rid of the tax in December 1996. That is what he is looking at again.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is trying to blur the issue by reading a list of waivers. Will he acknowledge that the vast bulk of ordinary people on low and middle incomes, including pensioners and householders in negative equity or who are put to the pin of their collar to pay their mortgages will have this tax demanded of them if it is passed in the House? Loads of money can be got for our public and...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: On 25 January next, the Taoiseach intends to pay â¬1.2 billion to a single unsecured bondholder in the former Anglo Irish Bank.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: He could keep â¬200 million, give it to the local authorities and give people a break. I invite him to withdraw this household tax disaster this week-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government will get them in other ways.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government is killing jobs with its austerity.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am amazed that the proposal refers to a Minister or Minister of State when the Taoiseach clearly gave the impression that he would be prepared to come in here to answer questions for 40 minutes. Perhaps that is the case. Perhaps i am wrong that it should have stated "Taoiseach" as the Taoiseach is a Minister of the Government in any case. It is absolutely incumbent on him that he comes...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Which Bill?
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: You could project your voice a little more.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister, Deputy Hogan, came in last night and presented Second Stage of the household tax Bill. He had a grin on his face from beginning to end as he was introducing it.