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- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: After nine years in powerââ
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is fooling nobody.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: He has been in power for nine years.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I would like to ask a supplementary question.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: What about my supplementary questions?
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I wanted to ask some supplementary questions.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach never answered my questions.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: There is a more long-standing order of the House covering Leaders' Questions. Is the Government trying to add to the agony of the tens of thousands of young workers who are priced out of the housing market? The Minister for Social and Family Affairs announced a study, which will take several months, on some kind of mortgage support for them, during which the price of a house will have...
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Typical young workers are in their 30s and in Dublin they will pay â¬375,000 for a new home. My Independent colleagues advise me that a similar position applies through the country.
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Young people who must pay â¬375,000 for a three bedroomed home are forced to take a 40-year mortgage. This morning I asked a bank manager to work out the figures based on the house price I gave and he told me that, on a mere 4% constant interest, a person would have to pay a staggering â¬750,000 before he or she would own the home. If interest rates increase to only 6%, the house buyer...
- Leaders' Questions. (10 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Rich doctors, rich lawyers and politicians are up to their necks in it. Endless acreage of advertising by house developers means endless millions in advertising revenue for newspaper proprietors. There is a powerful vested coalition of interests conspiring to cover up the extent of the rip-off of young workers and the Government is assisting those vested interests. How does the Taoiseach...
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: There will be a few High Court judgments along the way, just like after the Gama Construction report was published.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The disgusting trafficking into Ireland of young women from parts of eastern Europe for enslavement and prostitution was highlighted on RTE's "Prime Time Investigates" last night. The most urgent action possible is needed to stop this barbarismââ
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââand to take the barbarians out of our society.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am asking the Taoiseach to tell me and the Dáil when legislation to outlawââ
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââthis criminal trafficking, which is a modern form of slavery, will be introduced. Why has the Government been so laggardly on this issue so far?
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: We need clarification.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am not debating the issue.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am sorry, but the Taoiseach's comments were misinformed.
- Order of Business. (9 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: There is legislation banning the trafficking of children, but there is no legislation specifically banning the trafficking of young women into this country for prostitution.