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- Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste can agree to it now. He is the member of the Government in the Chamber. He can give us ten minutes which can come off the time allowed for the next debate.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Tá cáin breisluacha le cur in áirde go dtà 23%. Seo ceann des na polasaithe is measa ins an mbuiséad seo agus ceann des na hionsaithe is géire ins an mbuiséad in aghaidh ghnáth daoine. Cuireann cánacha indÃreacha isteach go mórmhór ar dhaoine bochta agus ar lucht oibre atá ar phá Ãseal agus ar meán pá. Dá bhrà sin, tá sé mÃmhorálta, mÃcheart agus mÃchóir ó gach...
- Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: This is not the way to go about regenerating an economy that is being destroyed by the Government's austerity policy. Shortly after I entered the Dáil in 1997 a series of measures was begun by Fianna Fáil to cut taxes for property speculators and developers which led to the catastrophic property bubble which led to the blackmail prices young people were charged for the right to have a roof...
- Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: No, it is not.
- Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government could drive anyone to drink.
- Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: What about a tax on speculators in Europe?
- Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We did not hear too many objections from Fine Gael.
- Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Hit the workers instead.
- Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Hit the disabled instead.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am sure all those people out there today suffering and looking forward to the savage cuts will be very impressed looking in here this afternoon. Does the Taoiseach accept that at the heart of the political establishment in this State, there is a monumental hypocrisy? When the same cuts in child benefit and in other areas that were delivered and promised yesterday were delivered last year...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wondered what it was all for when he repeated merely the platitudes of nine months ago. When he said the Government would do all it can to protect the most vulnerable, our children, the sick and the elderly, can I ask him to agree he is guilty of the most monumental hypocrisy since yesterday the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform attacked the children, the sick and the elderly in...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: I never said we should carry on regardless. In fact, I asked for a major change of policy. The Taoiseach will not bring the country out of the depths into which it has been plunged by this crazed system in four years. Austerity will make matters far worse. Surely he should have learned this from the plight and suffering of the Greek people. He did not answer the question. Why does he...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----and parents with three and four children. It attacks the weakest in society because it has made a political choice that the wealthy who back Fine Gael will not be touched.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Instead it takes the easy option of attacking the poor and working people. Does the Taoiseach agree that is to the shame of the Government and the Labour Party? Does he agree that critically the investment needed-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----to create the jobs which he said was the priority in his address will not come from current circumstances? The extra wealth in society needs to be used to create tens of thousands of jobs and remake this broken society.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Yes, the Government is bailing out European speculators.
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (1 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of universal social charge paid by pensioners in receipt of the State pension since the charge was first introduced. [38087/11]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (1 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the threshold for qualification to pay the universal social charge was set at â¬4,004.00 per annum; and if he will raise this figure considerably in budget 2012. [38088/11]
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: The disastrous decisions on the banking system made by successive Governments and the majority in the Dáil have been the source of much of the crisis we are experiencing and the suffering of our people to bail out speculators and gamblers. At the very least we deserve a full and thorough opportunity to go through the experience of the past three years and not least for Labour Party...
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)
Joe Higgins: We on this side of the House are opposed to guillotines, which the Tánaiste used to oppose when those Fianna Fáil Members in front of me made similar proposals when in Government. If the Tánaiste is consistent with his days in opposition, he will give more time to this debate.