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Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach state that on its rising today the Dáil shall adjourn until 1.30 p.m. tomorrow?

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Could we have an explanation from the Taoiseach?

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: When the Taoiseach visits Arbour Hill tomorrow, perhaps he will reflect on what great people such as James Connolly might think about the Government saddling our people with the debts of foreign bankers.

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: In today's Irish Independent, a senior Government source is quoted as stating categorically that flat-rate water charges will be introduced in 2012 and that these are part of the EU-IMF deal. There is reference to households being obliged to pay €175 per annum in this regard. Is it the Government's intention to bring legislation before the House to impose this new burden on working people...

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: On principle, I do not stand shoulder to shoulder with people who have sold out the working class. It would be an insult to the memory of James Connolly to stand beside the Taoiseach and his colleagues. That is why I am not attending.

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: I consider it of no importance that the Taoiseach is attending.

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: As a starting point for this debate, does the Taoiseach candidly admit that Fine Gael and the Labour Party were as guilty of cronyism as Fianna Fáil with regard to the manner in which, over decades, they appointed-----

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----people to public boards? Does he agree that - I will not use the unkind word "hacks" - the latter were activists of the political parties? If the Taoiseach is serious with regard to the new system he proposes, why did the Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food rush to make appointments to and to promote people within Bord na gCon? Rather than the somewhat narrow process he...

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why not?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: There will not be a dry day in the House.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform stated that the Government will not delay in moving on the issue of the sale of State assets. Are Labour Party Members seriously prepared to be part of this neoliberal hucksters deal-----

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----which will involve pawning the assets of the people to pay off moneylenders. Has the Labour Party learned nothing from the debacles involving Telecom Éireann and Team Aer Lingus?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Perhaps we should invite the Deputy opposite, whose name escapes me, to take the Chair in place of the Ceann Comhairle?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: We want to encourage everyone to have their say but newer Members should not attempt to silence those of us who have been here previously.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Labour Party will have a great dealt to worry about when working class people realise what it is up to.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste be much more precise with regard to the timetable he envisages in respect of this matter, including that part of it which relates to legislative issues? Will he correct the misleading impression that this sale has something to do with job creation when the EU-IMF deal provides that the money will disappear into the black hole that is European bankers' debts?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It should not even be on the agenda.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wonder what the great James Connolly would think of this.

Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Considering the Taoiseach's statement that tackling the disastrous unemployment situation is a top priority and that the proposed strategic investment bank is supposed to deal with this crisis by financing large infrastructural projects, which could create tens of thousands of jobs, I am surprised that he was not able to tell us in recent days when legislation would be introduced by the...