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Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I want to make a point of order, which is my entitlement.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I am sure you will protect my right to do so.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach frequently answers our queries with regard to the ordering of business by referring to the Whips.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is the business of the Taoiseach, fundamentally, to order the arrangements for sittings-----

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and the business taken in the Dáil.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: He should answer.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: He should respond to what has been requested by us, rather than fobbing it off to the Whips.

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his involvement in and assessment of the British Irish Council meeting recently. [18578/11]

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Like the Taoiseach's Government, the British Government is imposing a savage programme of cuts on public spending. Did the Taoiseach get an opportunity to question the Deputy Prime Minister with regard to the effect of £4 billion or £5 billion of cuts in Northern Ireland and the effects these will have on hard-pressed communities and working class people, many on the margins, for whom...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The British loans are completely separate from the other EU loans. Even if the Taoiseach used the excuse that some EU countries are tagging together and he requires everyone's agreement, the Taoiseach does not need it with regard to the loans provided by Britain. I remind the Taoiseach that when the loans were offered, the British Government made it clear that they were doing so to protect...

Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the total costs to the State of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II and the President of the USA. [18434/11]

Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 114: 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 the Queen of England and the President of the USA. [19486/11]

Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 510: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the total costs to the State of the visits of the Queen of England and the President of the USA. [19487/11]

Croke Park Agreement (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach admit that the Croke Park agreement is nothing more than a cover for crudely cutting thousands of jobs in the public sector despite an OECD report which shows the Irish public sector to be far more modest than those in many more successful countries in Europe? The end result is now being felt in the drastic cuts being proposed in education, in terms of schools, the health...

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to his stated view that senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society should have substantial losses imposed on them, if he discussed this question with US Secretary Treasury Geithner, the European Central bank and the EU; and if he will report on any such discussions. [18996/11]

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Minister agree that ordinary people and taxpayers will find it beyond belief that he did not discuss this issue with the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Geithner, who, we believe, vetoed the burning of tens of billions of bondholders' bad gambling debts at a G7 meeting and therefore was directly responsible for contributing at any rate to have that burden continued on...

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Minister agree he was posturing big time in Washington?

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I beg your pardon, a Chathaoirligh, it is a question.

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is not up to the Chair to try to censor a Member of the Dáil from getting more information from the Minister for Finance.

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I would have finished by now.