Responding to the case of Louise Bayliss whose contract at the Irish Advocacy Network will not be renewed because of her role in exposing the mistreatment of psychiatric patients in the care of the HSE Joe Higgins TD said: “There has been no delivery yet on whistleblowing legislation. Indeed the Labour Party presented such legislation [...]
Press Statement: Case of Louise Bayliss intended to discourage whistleblowing
On January - 24 - 2012
Video: Joe Higgins urges Minister to ensure La Senza workers’ entitlements are met
On January - 12 - 2012
I welcome the representatives of the La Senza workers to the Visitors’ Gallery and I am in solidarity with the Vita Cortex workers suffering from similar high-handed disgusting treatment. It is breathtaking in its arrogance and disrespect towards the up to 120 mainly female workers in the La Senza lingerie stores in Dublin and Cork [...]
Statement of support from Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins for the striking EBS workers
On December - 20 - 2011
Responding to the day of strike action taken by EBS workers Joe Higgins TD said: “I and my party colleagues support the action taken by the EBS workers 100%. A clear distinction must be made between the obscene rewards still given to the senior management in Ireland’s banks and the hard won pay and conditions [...]
Video: Joe Higgins urges Minister Noonan to reverse decision not to honour EBS workers contract obligations
On December - 19 - 2011
I am glad the Minister for Finance is in the Chamber. What we would like to have with him today is a quiet measured conversation about the issue I raise which concerns 370 workers at EBS Limited, now merged with Allied Irish Banks. These are very low-paid and middle-income workers. They are coal-face workers, not [...]
Video: Joe Higgins questions Tanaiste on the announcement of further cuts at Blanchardstown Hospital
On October - 6 - 2011
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 [...]
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 [...]
