Results 1-20 of 30 for destroyed speaker:Joe Higgins

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: In an article dated 11 February 2001, Mr. McWilliams summarised how cheap credit flowing into a country can destroy it with illusions of wealth. He colourfully referred to the Spanish conquest of Latin America and the ransom which the Incas paid for their unfortunate emperor. In one week, he wrote, "the Spaniards plundered more gold [from there] than the entire continent of Europe produced...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Joe Higgins: ...to 40 years, shackling them to this millstone of debt. If nothing else might have prompted intervention, did Professor Honohan find any concern for the plight of this generation, which was almost destroyed by this profiteering?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...the number of Irish Water application packs that were returned to sender; if Irish Water has identified the number due to incorrect names, addresses or other information; if Irish Water has destroyed returned post that was marked return to sender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41555/14]

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...on the housing lists is concerned. The Minister of State should listen to and examine what he said. His first canard was the creation of employment, as he put it, when his Government has been destroying employment for tens of thousands in the public sector. Small businesses and others are adding some extra employment. We welcome the fact that a significant sector of workers has got...

Central Bank Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Apr 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...entirely for the benefit of society to build the homes that our people so desperately need at present, to give investment to small enterprises and the self-employed, to create the jobs and reboot the economy destroyed by austerity, and, in general, to work for the benefit of society. That is what would be in the interests of our people. The second part of this Bill deals with provisions...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...to the cesspool of the markets or relying on the neoliberals of the EU and ECB is not the way forward for the economy and the people and it is a question of repudiating this massive debt that is destroying the economy and provoking the horrific austerity the Government is imposing, which will continue for years to come to destroy the livelihoods of our people and the future of young...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...could leave that pedestal behind me and walk down this aisle, he would for one minute associate himself with the Labour Party that rescues the very vultures that he spent his life fighting to destroy? Does anyone believe that Connolly and Larkin would tolerate a Government that introduced legislation to the Dáil that held a sword of Damocles over the heads of public sector workers...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...Larkinism means and stands for... It is this attempt at despotism that the Tramway Company, Independent Newspapers, Messrs. Shackleton of Lucan, Messrs. Jacob and others are now out to overturn and destroy... It is infinitely better for Dublin and the prosperity of trade and its too few industries that whatever suffering and loss may be involved should be endured for a few weeks at most...

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...shackles the Irish people to a gigantic millstone of toxic Anglo Irish Bank debt of €31 billion and interest over a 40 year period. The consequences are ongoing savage austerity that is already destroying livelihoods, living standards, communities and individuals. It bears saying again that these were the private gambling losses of bankers and bondholders as they speculated wildly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Government should not agree to so-called conditionality, which represents the imposition of an economic philosophy that is destroying whole sectors of Irish society, and jobs in particular. The imposition of ongoing austerity when flexibility is needed for investment in infrastructure, etc. is destructive from every point of view. I would like this point noted somewhere.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...of austerity making a collection to buy the ingredients for soup for the patients. This is the European Union in 2013. Small enterprises have closed by the thousands as the effects of austerity destroy the ability of ordinary people to purchase goods and services, exactly as is happening in Ireland. What has changed fundamentally in this euro area loan facility? It simply maintains...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Joe Higgins: What property has been destroyed of late?

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: ...87,100? One would have to go back to the 1800s to find a comparable level. The reality is that far from succeeding, the policy of austerity is causing economic disaster on a huge scale. It is destroying the domestic economy and causing huge suffering on a human level for hundreds of thousands of our people. That is inevitable because in the past five years we have seen an unimaginable...

European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ...people of Europe. How disastrous austerity is for the working class, the poor, the youth and the pensioners of Europe is seen most graphically in Greece where, most tragically, society is being destroyed. To satisfy the bondholders, people in Greece are being driven into penury. Children are hungry in the classrooms while workers, both manual and professional, queue for soup kitchens....

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: ...hold which allowed the racketeering that blew up the property bubble that brought the crash and that in turn led to the disastrous austerity policy that this Government is implementing which is destroying living standards and services? Is he aware this new raft of taxation is being put on the shoulders of the innocent majority to bail out the failed property gamblers? Does he see the...

Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----which were destroying everything social and socialist in that city. I invite the Tánaiste to read history to learn the truth.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)

Joe Higgins: There is one cure for mass unemployment. That is job creation. The Government needs to discontinue its austerity policies, which are destroying tens of thousands of jobs in the domestic economy. That approach is the reason an additional 200,000 people are on the live register, compared to three and a half years ago. The creation of real jobs with decent wages is the answer to unemployment.

Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...EBS Limited, now merged with Allied Irish Banks. These are very low-paid and middle-income workers. They are coal-face workers, not the erstwhile high fliers who expanded the property bubble and destroyed the economy in the process. For 45 years workers in the company were paid their annual wages in 13 equal instalments. Therefore, after nine years of service, a worker on a gross income...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...Government would ever slavishly agree to make a vassal State of the Republic of Ireland and its people, to squeeze tribute from our people to save the capitalist banks of Europe and in doing so destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of our people now plunged into unemployment, financial hardship and social dislocation. In this budget and the past four years the austerity policy means...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Joe Higgins: This is not the way to go about regenerating an economy that is being destroyed by the Government's austerity policy. Shortly after I entered the Dáil in 1997 a series of measures was begun by Fianna Fáil to cut taxes for property speculators and developers which led to the catastrophic property bubble which led to the blackmail prices young people were charged for the right to have a roof...