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Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: You should not try to distract us from questioning the Minister for Finance.

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Was the Minister's bold statement in Washington that he wanted the bondholders burned related to the fact that the following day was a press occasion for the Government on its first 100 days in office? When the Minister found himself in Washington, was he rather like the brave schoolboy smoking behind the shed, bragging against the teacher and talking big, but then when he faced the...

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why did the Minister not discuss the issue of the bondholders with the US Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Geithner?

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could the Minister not have asked him the simple question as to whether he vetoed the writing off of bad gambling debts to bondholders and therefore placed them on the Irish taxpayers' shoulders?

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister could ask the question-----

Bank Guarantee Scheme (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: All the Minister had to do was ask the question and not make an accusation.

Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the implementation to date of the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18576/11]

Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: In the programme for Government there is a commitment to a major undertaking to secure burden sharing on an equitable basis, meaning speculating banks should take losses incurred in property gambling, rather than inflicting them on taxpayers. There is a further promise to secure a reduction in the penal and opportunistic interest rates charged by the European Union as part of the programme...

Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Has the Government determined the effect of the delays in implementation of the stated programme with regard to the estimated cost to the taxpayer?

Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Indentured labour.

Croke Park Agreement (5 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Croke Park Implementation Body and any arrangements made to meet with the leaders of the public sector trade unions. [18577/11]

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister should not mislead the Dáil.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: There is a huge difference between the JLC protection and ordinary legislation, and the Minister knows it. It is not the same protection by any means. The idea that driving down the wages of low paid workers-----

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----will create thousands of jobs is cloud cuckoo land.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to ask a question, a Cheann Comhairle. Will the Minister be more precise about the timing of this legislation? He has been shouting about it from the rooftops for some time and apparently considers it very urgent. Let us have a firm time-scale for it. We learned this morning that the Irish ship MV Saoirse has been sabotaged in a Turkish port by agents acting for the Israeli...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----thus preventing it from bringing aid to the imprisoned people of Gaza.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Minister call in the Israeli ambassador and demand an explanation for this?

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: To be helpful to both the Ceann Comhairle and Deputy Murphy, during my first five years as a Member I had occasion to study thoroughly the relevant chapter of Standing Orders. I noted the Ceann Comhairle is not precluded from calling other Members, although preference is given to parties. It is at the Ceann Comhairle's discretion, which he may exercise occasionally.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle can make an exception.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: I regret that because Deputy Murphy could have been allowed to contribute by the Chair.