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Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Somebody who once thought he was a socialist, especially.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Yes, four and a half years after taking up office.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: We know that. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should put on his day-vision goggles to see what is going on.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: I wonder if the Taoiseach has any understanding of the nature of the debate that is opening up in Britain now on the proposal of the Tory Government to hold a referendum on the European Union. Does he understand that a referendum on EU membership is due to be held in Britain by 2017 and that are powerful arguments being put forward by ordinary people there - and working class people in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed with the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, the proposed referendum on British membership of the European Union. [32852/15]

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Yes, four and a half years later.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach must have been off looking for water on Mars for the last four years.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Are we for real here?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Investigations (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports (details supplied) that the Government intends to appeal the decision of the European Courts of Justice in relation to the low effective tax rate paid by the Apple corporation. [33288/15]

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: What is your opinion?

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: You would know a few things about newspapers, especially local ones.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Provide them after four and a half years.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Members of the Technical Group are seriously disadvantaged, but other Members of the Dáil in general are also disadvantaged. All Members of the Dáil, Government and Opposition, should have the opportunity, four and a half years into the Government's term, to give their verdict, on reflection, in relation to the critical issues facing us. Therefore, I propose that the debate...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Its senior leaders actually think that they are socialists-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: -----while implementing the most savage austerity in the history of this State for the past four years. I will tell you, Bertie Ahern's conversion to socialism had far more credibility than the recent claim made by Deputy Quinn.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: I am sure the Chief Whip is no historian, but he could tell his colleagues in the Labour Party that James Connolly's view on socialism was to elevate the welfare of working people and the poor and not to enrich bankers and bondholders at their expense, which is what this Government has done for the past four and a half years.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: We need time to discuss these serious issues and, therefore, I formally propose an extension of the debate.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: I move amendment No. 1:That the debate continue into tomorrow; and that the time be extended by at least another three hours, and preferably more than that. I am opposing the proposal because three hours is pathetically inadequate to deal with the range of substantial issues and to call the Government to account on some of the most serious issues that ever have faced Irish society. In terms...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: Mr. Chopra, it was said that financial regulation and supervision in Ireland leading up to the crash were deficient and you may have uttered similar sentiments. Can you say what would your view be as ... the major deficiencies leading up to the crisis?