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Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----forcing ordinary people in this country to salvage the European banks and speculators from their reckless participation in the Irish property market.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The agents of the speculators are the European Union and the IMF, while the Government is their enforcer in ravaging the living standards and hitting the employment prospects of the people. The memorandum dictates that in the fourth review by the end of the year under the heading of fiscal consolidation there shall be a property tax. It contains proposals for a water charge in 2012 and...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: As the Head of the Government, the Taoiseach must provide clarity in this regard.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What is the policy? Will there be one, two or three new taxes to hit hard-pressed taxpayers and ordinary people?

EU Summits (19 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he had discussions with Euro Parliament President Buzek on his visit to Ireland. [21141/11]

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: No.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I know we are keeping you a little bit longer from your morning coffee than normal but it is Dáil Éireann.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, I vehemently object to the fact that there will not be an Order of Business tomorrow. This Government came to power only four months ago promising to change everything in this society for the better-----

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and instead, four months later, has its own trail of destruction behind it, closing accident and emergency departments, sacking special needs assistants and withdrawing resources from schools.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: We now have savage cuts in the social welfare area.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Not only should there be an Order of Business tomorrow but I ask the Tánaiste to make himself and the Taoiseach available to answer questions on the betrayal of the promises-----

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and these crucial issues that now confront working people, unemployed people and poor people in our society. I invite the Tánaiste to amend that proposal to make himself available tomorrow for questions-----

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and an Order of Business.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is not the point.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The decent people around the country, who comprise the vast majority, are throwing their hands in the air once more because of the revelations in the most recent report. It is most shocking that some of the events it covers are so recent and, therefore, the ignorance that could have been preferred in the 1980s does not feature in this instance. The bishop at the heart of the report was also...

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I support Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh. The introduction of these savage cuts affecting the most vulnerable has been done in a mendacious and underhand fashion. The very least the so-called Minister for Social Protection can do is to come into the Dáil to defend these cowardly cuts and explain the rationale of the Labour Party in now finding these reductions, which hit the old and the poor,...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister states that funding for special needs is not being cut and thereby covers up the truth that the resources available for schools are being greatly diminished because thousands of extra children are pouring into the education system every year. The reality lies in the examples Deputies have cited from their respective areas. In the greater Blanchardstown area, the fastest growing...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What we see at present is but the diseased financial system that are the European financial markets? The gamblers and speculators therein, faceless, unaccountable and unelectable, are given such enormous power by the political establishments in all the countries of the European Union that they dictate economic policy, including savage cuts in society such as services to children with special...

Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the total costs to the State of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II and the President of the USA. [19973/11]

Foreign Conflicts (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the Israeli Government regarding the safe passage of the recent Irish flotilla to Gaza. [18580/11]