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Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: What will the Taoiseach do in this regard? His Minister for Finance has stated that he would not do anything because there was a contract.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach end the humiliation of Irish taxpayers and people at the hands of the banking sector?

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Moreover, as the Taoiseach walked out of Downing Street yesterday without having the bottle to ask the British Prime Minister for a reduction in interest rates-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----for another bank loan that was made to save British banks, what hope can the people have that he represents anything different?

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Explain that.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should explain.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: I assure the Taoiseach I am not at all confused because I sat in this House for ten years while this insanity was going on and people like myself were referred to as contrarians in this report. The Taoiseach, however, was not a contrarian and nor was his party. Not once did it raise a voice of opposition to the level of profiteering in which developers and bankers were engaged on the backs...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----for example, porters, cleaners and teachers in private schools who are not paid by the State but whose employers receive part payment from the State. No institution has received more funds from the taxpayers, to the obscene degree that has happened, than have the banks. Is the Taoiseach telling me that he will allow the porter, the cleaner, the teacher and other equivalent employees to...

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach understand my amazement that he told us he discussed the narrow issue of security with the British Prime Minister but not the devastating consequences of the cuts to social programmes and public services? Do the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister not understand that the social deprivation and misery in many working class areas in the North will be worsened considerably by...

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Billions in cuts. That is the reality.

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Many staff in the Department of the Taoiseach are members of the Civil and Public Services Union, which organises the lowest-paid workers in the public service. Does the Taoiseach understand the anger of those members of his staff who at their conference rejected the Croke Park agreement because it simply consolidates savage pay cuts, slashes jobs in the public service and therefore worsens...

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: I heard noises offstage there, a Cheann Comhairle.

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: What is the Taoiseach's attitude to the Labour Party Ministers' bullying the lowest-paid and middle-paid public servants, including those in his Department, and threatening them with further pay cuts? I ask the Taoiseach to acknowledge that staff within his Department start out with extremely low annual wages in the low twenty thousands of euro. As a matter of interest, when the Taoiseach...

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----does he avert his gaze in embarrassment that he demands further cuts from them while rescuing European banks?

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is to save the skins of European speculators.

Departmental Staff (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is to save the European banks.

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with the British Prime Minister. [8290/11]

Official Engagements (19 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if the British Prime Minister consults with him regarding the economic policies of the British Government as they impact on Northern Ireland. [8291/11]

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: I want to ask about the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 which seeks to amend the Education Act 1998 which provides for children with special needs, among other things. We hear there are to be no more teachers for special needs children because the European Union and the IMF demand it. We hear this morning from the enterprise Minister, promising in the legislation we have just heard about,...

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Joe Higgins: That makes dummies out of all of you as well, by the way. All I hear is "his master's voice", and the EU-IMF dictates it. Is the legislation to restore the minimum wage, which the Government promised to introduce shortly, conditional on new attacks on low-paid workers to pay off more bad gambling debts for European banks?