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- Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is very important to have clarity. Is the Taoiseach stating there will not be legislation for a strategic investment bank?
- Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not reply to my question. He knew when this legislation would be introduced because he considers it important but he spoke about two other banks. Will there be a strategic bank and when will relevant legislation be introduced?
- State Visits (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach desist from speaking about US investment in Ireland as if they were here to do us a kindness?
- State Visits (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: It has one of the highest returns on investment anywhere in the world with handsome profits. Is the Taoiseach aware that in the United States it is considered that the reason for President Obama's visit is to support his re-election campaign and how this will impact on the Irish American vote?
- State Visits (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is it not a little rich that the taxpayer, as well as bailing out European speculators, must now make a contribution to the re-election campaign of a United States President? In view of the fact that the royal family of Britain is one of the wealthiest families in the world and that this country is, figuratively, almost sleeping rough, will the Taoiseach ask the Queen if she might make a...
- State Visits (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Maybe they should switch the Monte Carlo rally to Dún Laoghaire.
- Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish to correct Deputy Martin, who is the leader of Fianna Fáil and not of the Opposition. The United Left Alliance is the Opposition and he is not our leader. In such circumstances, he should not use that term.
- Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that the hugely hysterical emphasis he, his Government and the media place on the importance of our rate of corporation tax, which is the third lowest in the European Union, in attracting foreign direct investment is unbalanced and unsustainable? Does he agree that, in the first instance, our highly-skilled and well-educated workforce is a major attraction for...
- Programmes for Government (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government. [8292/11]
- Programmes for Government (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is very clear with regard to targets for public sector reform, so called, and to the slashing of between 22,000 and 25,000 jobs by 2015. With regard to the Government's jobs programme, which the Taoiseach says will come in May, does he have a benchmark for reducing unemployment from the disastrous level of 440,000? Has he set a benchmark for six months, 12 months or 18 months...
- Programmes for Government (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is a case of jobs gone.
- Written Answers — School Enrolment: School Enrolment (20 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the funding and put in the necessary measures to open a school (details supplied) by September 2011, bearing in mind the significant demand for Gaelscoil places in this area, which existing Gaelscoileanna cannot meet. [8670/11]
- Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the embargo on Garda recruitment will be lifted. [8147/11]
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if recipients of a vaccine (details supplied) will be provided with information regarding possible side effects. [8145/11]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will put on hold the phasing out and closure of St. Luke's cancer hospital in Rathgar, Dublin, pending his review of the services; if he will confirm when he will meet the members of the Campaign to Save St. Luke's and the reason the new cancer centre of excellence on the St. James's Hospital campus due to open in December 2010...
- Order of Business (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Six weeks that did not shake the world.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Working from the executive summary of the commission of investigation into the banking sector, that is, the Nyberg report, does the Taoiseach agree it is rather unfortunate that sheer naked corporate greed was not identified as the major driving force that led to the insanity in the property market and the subsequent crash? Does the Taoiseach agree that the herd instinct and group-think to...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: It actively opposed the control of building land and of speculation on building land when we proposed such a measure in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach acknowledge that implicit in the report is a devastating indictment of how the financial markets systems work, which are driven exclusively by the herds of speculators in search of private greed? Does he acknowledge that when the report refers to the many investors, consultants, analysts, rating agencies and the media, which incidentally kept very quiet about this because...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----the Taoiseach states he is appalled, as though he were a letter writer to The Irish Times, who signs himself "Appalled from Castlebar". That is not good enough.