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- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: I know the Taoiseach will not heed my advice to boycott any visit to President Bush this year but will he have any new proposals to put forward at his meeting with the US President with regard to the tens of thousands of Irish citizens living clandestinely in the United States? Shall the Taoiseach seek clarification on the President's reasons for misleading him with regard to the reasons for...
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the PSNI Chief Constable, Sir Hugh Orde. [1854/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [1855/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 24: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1857/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 25: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [1858/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US administration. [1859/06]
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [1868/06]
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 11: 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. [1870/06]
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach accept that the Government has no credibility in seeking another so-called partnership agreement, the main purpose of which is to hold workers' wage increases to a minimum? Yesterday, the Department of Finance's report on tax breaks showed that the Government has been shovelling billions of euro in tax savings to speculators, developers and builders who have squeezed the...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach accept that, in reality, social partnership is now another flag of convenience to curb workers' wage demands? In the context of the partnership talks, while private capitalists are allowed by the Government's policies to gorge themselves obscenely with speculative profits and tax breaks as crucial public services such as health and education go short, does the Taoiseach...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am asking a question. While I will not quote, I read in the Irish Examiner that after the Taoiseach's recent visit to Singapore, they named aââ
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Very well.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes. However, they named a new hybrid orchid in the Taoiseach's honour. They called it "Mokara Bertie Ahern".
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: It must have been sponsored by developers and speculators, as the Taoiseach has certainly been a true cara to them.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: An extremely good cara to the speculators. How can workers take this seriously, against the background of the Government giving â¬5 billion in tax breaks to speculators and the super-wealthy? At the same time, the Government is now jeopardising 800 workers' jobs in the Great Southern Hotel Group as it prepares to hand the group over to the asset strippers through privatisation. On many...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââa fraud. How does the Taoiseach reconcile the fact that for example, there is no inclusion of the massive increase in house prices in the reckoning of inflation in these talks, when it is now crucifying tens of thousands of young PAYE workers? How can we take any of this process seriously?
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is incredible. I do not believe my ears.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: This is unreal.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: More houses were built in the bleak 1980s than are being built now.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: There are 50,000 families on the housing list. Is the Taoiseach aware of this?