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Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: -----to the homes of anti-water charge activists to arrest them yesterday and this morning, and that ten gardaí arrived at the home of a 16 year old boy this morning in Tallaght to arrest him in relation to a protest in Tallaght?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Was the Minister aware that this would happen?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach happy to criminalise an entire community with this kind of carry-on?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach condemn it as over the top and heavy-handed?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: The Government is going to stab the Greek people in the back. That is shameful.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I will deal with just one of the huge number of issues that arise. Was the Taoiseach asked in any detail about the controversy with regard to Irish corporation tax policy or about the race to the bottom throughout Europe in respect of corporation tax, which this and previous Governments have championed? Did any civil society organisations or others raise this issue with the Taoiseach?...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the ambassador of the United States of America to Ireland. [43819/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to New York and the economic events designed to increase jobs and investment here. [44902/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Alcohol Advertising (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: How on earth can the Taoiseach speak about separating sponsorship of sports events by alcoholic drinks companies from marketing and be serious? What is the point of the sponsorship by the alcohol companies except to market their product? More fundamentally, is it not perverse in the extreme that major alcoholic drinks companies are allowed to advertise freely and use massive funds to...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: We thank the Taoiseach.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: I thank Professor Black for coming across the wide Atlantic to assist us with the banking inquiry. I had intended to ask him to give a short résumé of his experiences that have led him to be an expert on bad practices in the banks but he gave some of it in his introduction, which was quite interesting. He referred to the prosecutions and the investigation into the savings and...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: That was the Clinton Administration. Is that correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Okay. Was it a wilful decision to move towards deregulation, rather than encompassing the lessons that had been learned?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Professor Black said something that might worry some people out there following on from that. He said a few minutes ago, if I understood him correctly, that nothing has "come to fruition" in effective regulation in the six and a half years since the most recent crisis started. Why does he think that is the case?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Could it be a factor in the United States or even in Europe that the financial markets and the massively powerful financial institutions have exerted pressure through lobbying, etc., to try to slow down or halt the type of radical regulation about which Professor Black speaks?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: We will put this question to the Commission representative who will be here later. We will ask whether there was such a race to the bottom in Europe. We await a response in regard to that. I would like to ask Professor Black briefly about the recipe he has laid out for bank failure, the drive for very rapid growth and the types of loans, etc. He said that one of the sure things is that...