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Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is 10% not 0.6%.

Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: It equates to €1,000 per year for low paid pensioners.

Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Tá siad á chur i bhfolach os na hoibrithe.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: There will be time. There are 25 minutes remaining.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Almost as good. I have two questions for the Taoiseach. What did he expect from Chancellor Merkel when he outlined to her the savage austerity measures he was inflicting on the ordinary people of the State to pay off the exorbitant gambling debts of German speculators and salvage the European financial market system? When he went to Germany, was he an innocent wandering abroad, like Little...

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Answer the question.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Do not bluff.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Answer the question.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: To satisfy the markets.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: No, we believe in democracy, not speculation.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: What were the changes?

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that if he said to Chancellor Merkel that he has a strong investment programme and is fostering the indigenous economy, he is spinning a yarn? In the same week, the Taoiseach announced massive cuts in the capital programme and the continuation of the austerity measures that are hammering the indigenous economy. What is the Taoiseach's view of this morning's reports...

Carbon Trading (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: In all seriousness, does the Taoiseach not see the glaring contradiction between wanting genuine and effective action to reduce pollution - if we take carbon as pollution - on the planet but relying on wild speculation in pollution credits on the world's financial markets as a method of achievement? Does the Taoiseach agree that his own programme for Government and the words he just used...

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with Chancellor Merkel on the Eurozone financial crisis. [35837/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on which Eurozone leaders he has discussed with over the past two weeks in relation to the crisis in the Eurozone. [35838/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any contact with the newly appointed Prime Minister Papademos of Greece and Prime Minister Monti in Italy. [35839/11]

Written Answers — National Debt: National Debt (15 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the total national debt in euros as a percentage of gross domestic product by the year end of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and delineate the portion of each figure that can be attributed to the recapitalisation of the country's banks and the portion that can be attributed to interest payments due by the State. [34292/11]

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Did the Cabinet decide today to close down army barracks in Clonmel, Mullingar, Castlebar and Cavan? What is the rationale for this proposal when there are no savings to the State? For the 600 soldiers and their families, most of whom are workers in uniform as ordinary rank and file members, this will be an enormous ordeal, forcing them to uproot and move to different towns and cities. One...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: In Clonmel, Deputy Healy and the Tipperary workers' group and the United Left Alliance have correctly examined the situation and are absolutely opposed to this. Perhaps the Taoiseach could take a lesson from history in the case of Clonmel. Even Cromwell was persuaded not to loose destruction on that particular town, following the opposition of Aodh Dubh Ó Néill, his soldiers and the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach reconsider that decision now?