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Official Engagements (28 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if the statement by the Minister for Finance in Washington concerning forcing certain bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank to carry their own losses was discussed at the EU Summit meeting. [17272/11]

Official Engagements (28 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that from the report he has given today he has failed dismally in the single most prominent pledge he made to the people before the general election, in the course of the general election campaign and immediately after the general election, that he would secure a major renegotiation of the EU-IMF-ECB austerity agreement? Does he also agree in particular that he said...

Official Engagements (28 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: I would not take a pat on the head from right wing European leaders as a source of pleasure or contentment when the reality is that the Irish people are being bled dry to save the major banks and speculators in Europe under the auspices of the leaders with whom the Taoiseach was speaking. Does the Taoiseach realise the urgency of the situation? Bondholders are being paid all the time at...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (23 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the total costs to the State of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II of England and the President of the USA. [16632/11]

Workers' Remuneration: Motion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is deeply shameful that we are seeing a combined assault of millionaires and even billionaires against some 250,000 workers who are among the lowest paid in this land, with the intention of further driving down their already low incomes and pushing them into further poverty. We have the spectacle of those who live in mansions and palaces with rolling acres demanding that workers who can...

Workers' Remuneration: Motion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Confronted with a system in crisis, they should not give Members weasel words about difficult decisions that must be taken. Instead, like the United Left Alliance says and like Connolly said, the time is long past for patching up the capitalist system. It must go, especially when it means further impoverishment for workers.

Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Every single week there are one or two proposals which involve the discussion on Bills being guillotined. This is from parties which promised that there would not be a repetition of what previous Dáileanna had to endure at the hands of a Fianna Fáil-led Government. This a non-controversial measure. The vast majority of Members will support the Bill and welcome what it contains, but I...

Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Half of the people in this State believe they were misled by Fine Gael and the Labour Party with their election promises, according to a poll in the Irish Independent this morning.

Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: At a time when we also learn that the crucial resource of visiting teachers for Traveller children is being withdrawn, I remind the Taoiseach that the two Government parties' promises were for equity in education and to legislate for that. Will the Taoiseach come before the Dáil shortly with the real programme for this Government and the real cuts rather than the increasingly fictionalised...

Order of Business (22 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: No, I am asking the Government to come forward with its real programme and let us have a measure of honesty so we know what that is.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Tá mé ag roinnt mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Thomas Pringle. The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was introduced after the Omagh bomb atrocity in the summer of 1998. At that time, we in the Socialist Party trenchantly opposed that atrocity, as we did all the atrocities that took place prior to it, and opposed paramilitarism on this island for decades in advance of that...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: The rioting, for example, in the Short Strand last night, shows the continuing dangers of sectarianism. Last night it was orchestrated by the UVF, most likely in response to an internal power struggle. Sectarianism continues under the surface, and not too far under it, to be a danger. The power-sharing Executive is implementing cuts, the Government in this State is pathetically unable to...

Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Not because of wages. Wake up.

Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: At the heart of what the Minister is saying is cutting the wages of the lowest paid. That is the issue.

Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Take the time to get an argument, for God's sake.

Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Only four weeks remain after this week is over and to follow on from Deputy Martin's comments, will the Taoiseach agree that Members should have a major debate on what is the Government's policy with regard to the financial crisis? When the Minister for Finance goes to Washington, in other words, far away from Frankfurt and Brussels, he acts like the lads behind the shed who are smoking and...

Order of Business (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could we have a fairly lengthy discussion in which the Government would outline its policy exactly and then allow Members to ask specific questions?

Cabinet Sub-Committees (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on which Cabinet sub committees have met since they were established; and the number of meetings in each case. [15350/11]

Cabinet Sub-Committees (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: What are the roles and functions of the sub-committees as they have operated since they were set up by Taoiseach? With regard to economic recovery and job creation, will the Taoiseach inform the House if he has a new strategy to try to address the critical problem of mass unemployment which clearly will hardly be touched by the jobs initiative which was scaled down from a major jobs budget?

Cabinet Sub-Committees (21 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: There are now nine Cabinet sub-committees, four of which deal with economic issues, from the economic management council to economic infrastructure and so on. It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach has not set a target for job creation and a reduction in the number of unemployed if, as he has said he is putting such emphasis on economic issues in Cabinet sub-committees.