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EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussion with European leaders over the summer on the crisis in the European financial markets. [24425/11]

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach just stated that Mr. Trichet, who is the President of the European Central Bank, told the Minister for Finance he would not contemplate the burning of the bondholders and specifically that the €3.5 billion to be paid to unsecured Anglo Irish Bank bondholders by the end of June had to be paid. What is the point of the Taoiseach going to EU summits if it is not the political...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The point is that there would be no need for tens of billions of ECB funding if the policy of the predecessor Government now being followed and implemented by the Taoiseach-----

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----had not been to guarantee €80 billion or €90 billion of gamblers debts. That is the point. Does the Taoiseach realise what he is saying?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach stated in opposition to my demanding the non-payment of the €3.5 billion, which the Minister, Deputy Noonan, stated should not be paid, that we should look at what happened when there was a threat that this might happen in Greece. What happened? The sharks in the financial markets ratcheted up interest rates for Italy and Spain and terrorised the political leaders of Europe...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: And the vultures.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Unemployment went up.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: No. Before agreeing that No. 10, Supplementary Estimate for Public Services [Vote 42], should be taken without debate, will the Taoiseach give the House an assurance in regard to Ms Teresa Treacy of Clonmore, County Offaly, who is in Mountyjoy jail at the behest of a powerful semi-State company, the ESB? This is totally inappropriate when there is an alternative. Will the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is a question of whether or not it is done without debate. If there is a debate on a Supplementary Estimate regarding public bodies, this is an issue that should be discussed.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: In the interests of a just way-----

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----there is another possibility.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I just wish to put it to the Taoiseach that there is a very reasonable alternative, that the lines are put underground which is more environmentally friendly. Will he not intervene to ensure that this poor woman is released from prison?

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I await a reply from the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is very objectionable that the Government begins this new autumn session in the same way as it went about its business during the first session of this new Dáil, with guillotines virtually every day. The same parties when in opposition were highly vociferous for many years against the Fianna Fáil Administration, for the same type of guillotines. What has changed?

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: There is a different way of doing this. The Taoiseach did not even ask to see how many speakers might wish to contribute to a particular Bill and then make an estimate on that basis. He has proposed the blunt weapon of the guillotine and it is not acceptable. This is another bailout on the backs of ordinary people for the machinations of the sharks in insurance and high finance and it...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: When sheep lead, we speak up for working people. I do not take being Cassius lightly.

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub committee meetings that have taken place since Dáil Éireann rose on 22 July 2011. [24422/11]

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: What is the function of the Cabinet sub-committee on health? How does it relate to the responsibilities of the Minister for Health and the HSE? The committee was established to underline the urgency of the needs of the health service and deal with the dramatic and disastrous effects of health cutbacks. It beggars belief that it has not yet met when hospitals across the country are...

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The problem is that doctors and other health staff are treating too many patients and have been told to cut back. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff. Who is going to bring sanity to this? Who will restore the services that have been cut, so that our health services are safe for patients?

Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Which Ministers are on this committee?