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- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: I will return to it. If there is flexibility in that case, I welcome it. However, how can it be progressive to increase class sizes? One might say that this is what we can afford. The Minister of State can disagree with me if he wishes, but I want to be practical about the matter. If the Government wanted to have some kind of citizenship that would be positive, it would have put a rights...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: Without identifying them.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: Fianna Fáil should look for transparency from its friends.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: What guarantees has the Government obtained?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: What side is that?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputy Broughan.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this budget. The budget should be judged in terms of its effects in a particular context. It was brought forward for a particular reason, to respond to international economic circumstances which had changed. While those who prepared the budget have used these external circumstances as a kind of apologia for their actions, there is no doubt...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: There will be many announcements. I intend toââ
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: Do I understand the Tánaiste to state that she is considering, inter alia, an amendment to section 4 of the existing Competition Act? That is the legislation about which I asked before.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: For which they got a standing ovation.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: Continuity is what we do not want.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: There will be a preservation of privilege.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: I did, yes.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: That is based on future values.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: All milk and no tears.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: In the brief amount of time available to me, I will make just a few points.
- Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. The issue as to whether there should be low regulation, no regulation or heavy regulation has always been regarded as a political matter in every political assembly. We must be very clear. Some phrases in the Minister's speech in some sense give the game away. One phrase is very interesting in which he refers to the "real economy". The real economy is very...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (15 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress, in advance of World Food Day on 16 October 2008, that has been made both here and by the international community to eradicate hunger, according to the terms of the millennium development goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35138/08]
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.