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- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why did it not hear from New Beginning, which has a radical approach to this issue?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why did it not bring in representatives of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service so that when the report came out, it was informed by the real world rather than by the agenda of bankers?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach spoke about Saul on the road to Damascus.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish someone would knock this Government off its horse so it could get an insight into what would really free our people from the horrible purgatory of debt.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: In the process, it would help to regenerate and remake our economy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is time to change course.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Austerity is a disaster.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The taxes that pay for those things will be down as long as have a depressed economy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: They are not heard in the report.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: For heaven's sake, that is outrageous.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Where is the army of those who are choosing not to pay?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is the undeserving poor all over again.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is like the Tories.
- Order of Business (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I welcome any informed debate on the budgetary process but not the manipulation of that to hide from the people before the Dublin West by-election and the presidential election the real truth of the savage cuts the Taoiseach is promising. He promised, and the Minister for Finance promised earlier, that this would be published in October. I ask the Taoiseach to publish now and to bring...
- Order of Business (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: In regard to specific promised legislation, what is the publication date of the local government (charges) Bill to impose an annual household charge?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I blush to think Aviva workers might be looking to us with hope that we might rescue their jobs. On a different issue, is the Taoiseach ashamed to stand in the Dáil the morning after his Minister for Finance crushed the hopes of 300,000 mortgage holders? These mortgage holders, the majority of whom are ordinary people with partners and families, are swamped by negative equity and monthly...
- European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his planned meeting with the President of the European Commission. [29813/11]
- European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the postponement of the European Council summit originally scheduled for 17 and 18 October 2011. [29815/11]
- Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the further referenda he plans in this Dáil term; and if a referendum is planned on the abolition of the Seanad. [26987/11]
- Constitutional Amendments (11 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Taoiseach to clarify whether he said it will be a referendum to abolish the Seanad or to reform the Seanad.