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European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The only thing the Taoiseach got was that the bondholders would not be burned.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the operation of the Economic Management Council. [35841/11]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: On the Order of Business-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I seek a conversation about next week's business.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I oppose the guillotining of the debate on the Social Welfare Bill. This time last year, as the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, unveiled his budget, screams of anguish reverberated through the corridors of Leinster House. The Labour Party's finance spokesman Deputy Burton was feeling the pain of the poor, the lone parents and, especially, the women of Ireland.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I dare say the Minister must be aware people with children took the biggest cuts this year and last year.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Let us remember child benefit is paid almost universally to women. I suppose that is a comment on how few women are Members of this House and what little power women exercise compared to bankers. This day, in an extraordinary transformation, the same Deputy Burton is now the tormentor of the women and children of Ireland.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The nub of it is that mná na hÉireann and leanaí na hÉireann are bewildered by this massive about-face and need an explanation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: We need, therefore, far more time for Deputy Burton, now Minister for - allegedly - Social Protection, to come into the Dáil and explain the extraordinary transformation and to do so section by section. She must think that along with her pain, a general anaesthetic should be administered to the same women and children whose state she bewailed last year.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste, on behalf of the Labour Party, must explain the absolute about-face in regard to these issues.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Therefore, we need far more time for the Minister and the Tánaiste on behalf of the Labour Party to explain why now they are carrying out these savage cuts on behalf of the same bankers.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is if the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, does not get a seizure.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I propose to share time with Deputy Finian McGrath. The thrust of this budget, a further instalment of savage austerity by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government, must be seen in the context of the global crisis that erupted in 2007 on the collapse of the mountain of toxic debt built up in the financial systems of the US and Europe following decades of deregulation and neo-liberal capitalist...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Allocation of Time: Motion (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: No.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Allocation of Time: Motion (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Yes. I appreciate that much business needs to be done, but the time frame for some of the resolutions is ten and 15 minutes. I will agree to the motion provided that an undertaking is given to the effect that the opening contributions of the Government and the two main Opposition parties will allow sufficient time for the United Left Alliance and Independent Deputies to make short...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Allocation of Time: Motion (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Exactly, but one or two Deputies could talk out the entire time and not give the rest of us an opportunity.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Allocation of Time: Motion (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: I agree on the basis that the understanding is adhered to by all parties.

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The last time I was a Deputy, the parties in government engaged in this ritual hypocrisy each year by introducing more taxes on cigarettes and pretending that it was a health measure. The Taoiseach's predecessor, Mr. Bertie Ahern, used to go on about it ritually. This is a revenue raising measure of some €45 million, the bulk of which will come from working class people and poor people....

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: Whose ideology is warped?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: The best thing I can say for the Tánaiste and the Government tonight is that we have been spared the hypocrisy going on that this was another critical environmental measure. I am sure if the Greens were still in Government we would have been lectured tonight about how important it is to lash on extra taxes on oil and petrol for the environment. Of course it is not. Using increased taxes...