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Joe Higgins Quotes

born 1949 Ireland

Joe Higgins (born 1 May 1949) is an Irish Socialist Party politician. He was the sole Socialist Party Teachta Dála from 1997 to 2007, representing the Dublin West constituency.

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I only wanted to ask the Tanaiste if he now officially endorses cronyism and patronage in Irish politics.

This is a challenge to the entire trade union movement in Ireland - a declaration of war on the wages and working conditions of all workers.

Babies also have a civil right not to be kissed by every passing politician.

It is outrageous that [the ESB] is oppressing a powerless citizen in this way.

It is like sending a bunch of marauding foxes that had raided a henhouse back to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their previous victims.

Superfluous and should be abolished.

A banker's charter written by bankers.

We want to see measures to implement taxation justice for ordinary working people. We want an end to the policy of many years now, of huge tax concessions for big corporations and a plethora of stealth taxes on ordinary families and ordinary working people.

Delusional on a Marie Antoinette scale.

Joe Higgins on badgering Bertie Ahern in the Dáil. Irish Independent

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joe Higgins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.