Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown is a vital acute facility for 333,000 people from Meath to west Dublin and Kildare to north-west Dublin. Recently the HSE demanded a costing on what it would save the hospital to go from a 24-hour accident and emergency service to a 12-hour service. The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, stated [...]
Video: Joe Higgins questions Tanaiste on the announcement of further cuts at Blanchardstown Hospital
On October - 6 - 2011
newERA privatisation of semi-states will only serve to worsen crisis
On October - 1 - 2011
Yesterday the Government announced that it is going to establish NewEra, a body to manage the State’s shareholdings in semi state companies. The Minister for Finance said that the new entity would carry out ‘corporate governance’ of companies like the ESB, Bord Gais and Coillte. We are told that NewEra will advise on, and oversee, [...]
Sale of the state’s “family silver” will be a nightmare for ordinary people
On August - 24 - 2010
All citizens who value the need for publicly owned vital infrastructure would have experienced a shudder of fearful anticipation last month when the Minister for Finance established a Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities. The Department of Finance Press brief’s opening sentence seemed innocuous enough, stating that the group would “provide advice on the [...]
Privatisation of VHI as discredited as that of Telecom Eireann and Team Aer Lingus
On May - 28 - 2010
The announcement yesterday by Minister Harney and the Taoiseach that VHI will be privatised over the next two years is a further installment in this government’s destruction of the very idea of a public Health Service. It is callously throwing hundreds of thousands of people, especially the old and the sick, to the mercy of [...]
GUE/NGL Press Release – Relentless EU dismantling of postal services will hit both workers and customers
On March - 5 - 2010
Opening today’s GUE/NGL group conference on the liberalisation of postal services, Irish MEP Joe Higgins said citizens were being hit hard by the Commission’s ongoing drive to privatise Europe’s postal services. “This relentless process of liberalisation totally ignores the impact on workers and customers as well as the social functions of public postal services. The [...]
EuroParl TV Lisbon Debate
On September - 26 - 2009
The video of a debate broadcast on European Parliament TV discussing the Lisbon Treaty is now online. Share on bebo Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Print for later Tell a friend
Joe Higgins Speaks at Launch of Broad Left Anti-Lisbon Campaign
On August - 18 - 2009
Joe Higgins spoke at a press conference today launching the broad left Vote No to Lisbon (SayNo.ie, formerly Campaign Against the EU Constitution). Joe was intereviewed on RTE radio about the launch of the campaign and why he will be campaigning against Lisbon. Listen to the interview online by clicking here. See the full press statement [...]
