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- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: We want to know when the legislation freeing those people from this burden will be brought forward.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: This is appropriate to the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: My question was on legislation promised by the Taoiseach. When is it due?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: As a matter of fact, it is the right wing that cuts corporate taxes, not the left.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Of course people in the European Union criticise the Taoiseach's corporation tax policy. Why would they not? The Taoiseach has been instrumental in causing a race to the bottom in corporation rates within the European Union and in a wider sense. For example, the Taoiseach has cosseted, in the same manner as everyone else, Proctor and Gamble, which is a fabulously profitable corporation....
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: ââassisted by the Government. This mirrors the Irish tax exiles, who are the Taoiseach's friends and who also strut around Ireland raising funds for worthy causes. However, were they to pay their due taxation, such causes would be funded ten times over without being obliged to go to them with a begging bowl.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach's corporation tax policy is unsustainable not in the long term, but in the immediate future.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Tax scams.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is stealing taxes from Africa, the Middle East and poor countries. That is the situation.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is depriving the poorest of the poor of their due tax.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should do me a favour and return to his script after all.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is now on a rant.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not deal with the issue.
- Decentralisation Programme. (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department. [1609/07]
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: RTE's "This Week" programme recently highlighted a scandalous aspect of corporation tax policy in this State. The Government enables transnational corporations to use this country as a blatant Cayman Islands-like tax scam essentially to take billions of euro in profits made in many countries around the world, launder them through the Irish Republic to avail of one of the lowest corporation...
- Written Answers — Multinational Corporations: Multinational Corporations (6 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 169: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of money repatriated by multinational corporations in each year from 2000 inclusive. [8890/07]
- Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (6 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the corporation tax paid by multinational corporations in this State in each year since 2000 inclusive. [8891/07]
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (6 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist the spouse of a deceased person (details supplied) to establish if an Anti-D injection administered to them on 10 February 1972 came from a batch contaminated with Hepatitis C. [8896/07]
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: Many people will have seen the very dignified appearance by Mrs. Christine O'Toole on RTE last night. Mrs. O'Toole is the mother of the young man, 24 year old Derek O'Toole, who was tragically killed on Sunday morning in Lucan in a road accident. She complained validly about the spin created in a number of media outlets yesterday to the effect that her son was "known to the gardaÃ". That...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2007)
Joe Higgins: All Members will join the Taoiseach in extending their sincere sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. O'Toole and the family on what was an appalling tragedy. I cast no reflection on anyone involved in the investigation but in cases of this nature provision should be made for an independent investigation to be carried out by competent persons outside the Garda SÃochána. The Taoiseach did not comment...