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Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: He would not dare repeat it at the next election.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: He might try, but at least nobody will believe him this time. The lamp posts will be left to the poodles of Ranelagh to do at the base what the Tánaiste is doing today to the alleged standards he defended when he climbed up his ladder. This tawdry affair exposes a Government utterly divorced from the reality of life of ordinary people,——

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——light years removed from the struggle of ordinary working people to spread their wages over the mortgage, child care, transport and the other problems. The Taoiseach should go today not just for his grubby taking of funds from business interests, but also because his being beholden to business generally has created a society——

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——that rewards the powerful at enormous cost to ordinary people so let us have the general election now. There are further questions but I will delay them until Leaders' Questions. There are many detailed questions that the Taoiseach must still answer today.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: On RTE, the Taoiseach made the point that one of the problems he had in the 1990s was with expensive legal fees as a result of issues in which he was involved. Many Independent Deputies have made the point to me in recent days that constituents of theirs facing the same fees were not able to proceed to the courts to try to get the justice they deserved because they could not afford the fees...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Bill Gates sending his letters by carrier pigeon comes to mind. The Taoiseach said today that it was an error and a misjudgement to have taken money from these business people. Did he use those terms only because of the problems caused for him in the past week and the embarrassment and consternation to his party, not because it was wrong or because there was a potential conflict of interest?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: If the revelations came out not 13 years after his so-called loans, but perhaps 20 or 25 years later, would they still be unpaid and would they still be in the same category as they were when the Taoiseach was outed? That is quite clearly the case. The Taoiseach insists that these are not business people but just friends. He told us that he only knew two of the Manchester crew. Is he...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: For example a big influential businessman in Irish circles in Manchester was Thomas "Slab" Murphy. Did he attend any of the gigs that the Taoiseach addressed?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: What are the implications for the Revenue Commissioners? Is it not the case as a result of the precedent the Taoiseach has set that anybody who got a gift perhaps ten, 12 or 15 years ago and had not paid tax can now say, like the Prime Minister of the country, "It was a loan and you cannot get me."

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: On television the Taoiseach said that he paid gift tax and capital gains tax. On what did he pay gift tax and capital gains tax?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Was that in the tax amnesty?

Social Partnership Agreements. (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [29226/06]

Social Partnership Agreements. (3 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29228/06]

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to the Garda of policing the Ryder Cup; and if moneys have been paid to the State by the organisation responsible for organising the Ryder Cup.. [30368/06]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will require UCD to reinstate the BA Evening Course in Irish. [30184/06]

Written Answers — Communications Masts: Communications Masts (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason mobile phone companies have been allowed to place microwave transmitters on buildings in Huntstown west Dublin, metres from a primary school. [30421/06]

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: There is a serious onus on the Ceann Comhairle to respond to what the Tánaiste said. The Ceann Comhairle heard him say that next Tuesday at Taoiseach's Questions any Member could put down questions on the Manchester payments and that the Taoiseach would answer them. The Ceann Comhairle must tell us now whether he will allow such questions and if we will have that opportunity next Tuesday.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the Ceann Comhairle let me finish my point of order? The deadline for Taoiseach's Questions next Tuesday has passed. The Ceann Comhairle must tell us if he will be as flexible as he was this morning in allowing those questions to stand and to be taken next Tuesday. That is the minimum that is asked.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste could tell us the details of the Manchester payment this morning and save us all this travail over four or five days.

Order of Business (28 Sep 2006)

Joe Higgins: If the Manchester payment issue must be dragged out over the next four days——