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Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I was supposed to lead the next Technical Group slot with a group of Deputies.

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to share equal time with Deputies Joan Collins, Seamus Healy, Tom Fleming, John Halligan and Richard Boyd Barrett.

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Deputy Ciarán Lynch referred to the fact that this is a home-purchasing nation. That is true. Some commentators in the past have responded to that as if it was something dramatically unusual that should be changed and that working people should put their lives and their need for shelter at the gentle mercies of landlords, which is another class about which we in this country know a lot...

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: That is very clear from the Government amendment, which offers no solutions either. It states more or less that the Government bailed out the banks. It gave tens of billions of euro to European bankers to pay off their gambling debts and now depends on what is called "lender forbearance". In other words, the banks should be kind towards the people they have got into such a crisis. That is...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: The editorial in The Irish Times yesterday stated, "The US special forces team was under orders not to take him [Osama bin Laden] alive, as confirmed by a US national security official to Reuters." We now know he was shot dead unarmed. The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Labour Party and presidents of the EU Commission and Council, all...

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach not consider therefore that this assassination was no more than a naked political stunt to project military and political power which was-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: ------slipping away from the US because of the actions of the Arab people? I want the Taoiseach to justify his stand.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Thousands of people have been murdered by reactionary terrorists. I suggest to the Taoiseach that the answer to this is not to do likewise and use their methods. In 2003, the Taoiseach stated that under international law and order the war in Iraq was wrong, unjust and unnecessary. Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis were killed.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: The two figureheads of that invasion, Messrs Bush and Blair, were responsible for that. If a group of aggrieved relatives of those tens of thousands of dead mounted an assault on Mr. Blair's luxury compound, wherever that might be, would the Taoiseach equally justify that-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----because the same logic would apply-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----and they would no doubt argue-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----that they could not get justice in Britain? I put it to the Taoiseach that he has no mandate from the Irish people-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----for his support for this assassination, albeit of an utter reactionary. In my view, if there was a debate among the Irish people-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----while they would excoriate Osama, his likes and everything that he did as we have done and we did-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----to the US and Britain which supported these reactionary regimes, they would not agree with his position.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Justify why you support shoot-to-kill policies in some instances.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Withdraw your remark. You know very well-----

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----my position on reactionaries like al-Qaeda.

Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Withdraw your remark.

Accident and Emergency Services (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: In recent times serious concern has been expressed by the local community and staff members about aspects of the service provided by Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. There have been consistent cutbacks in funding to the hospital in recent years as there have been to other hospitals. There have been suggestions that one emergency department of the three in the north Dublin area would be...