Is the truth not that the fiscal compact is a treaty for permanent austerity and therefore provides for permanent attacks on the living standards and public services of ordinary Europeans? Is the reality not that the obsession of the Government at the summit was to secure a wording for the austerity treaty that it hoped [...]
Video: Joe Higgins tells Taoiseach Austerity Treaty will have a disastrous impact on ordinary Europeans
On February - 1 - 2012
Video: Joe Higgins addresses a packed Anti-Household Tax meeting held at the Imperial Hotel, Cork City.
On January - 31 - 2012
Joe Higgins speaks to a packed Anti-Household Tax meeting held at the Imperial Hotel, Cork City on January 26th 2012. FAQ on the Household Tax 1. What is the Household tax? The household tax is a new tax that every home owner in the country is to be charged, the Fine Gael and Labour government [...]
Video: Joe Higgins tells Tanaiste not to scapegoat the unemployed for economic crisis
On January - 26 - 2012
In recent days press reports on briefings given by the Minister for Social Protection and senior officials in her Department have pointed to the beginning of a campaign to exert pressure on and harass unemployed people. Apparently, the Minister is to unveil next week a programme entitled, Pathways to Work. It has been stated every [...]
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 [...]
Video: Joe Higgins warns austerity will further prolong crisis
On January - 12 - 2012
Does the Taoiseach agree that, for many of us, it is deeply disappointing to hear today that whatever reflection he did over the Christmas break, he has not recognised in the Dáil’s first meeting of 2012 that the austerity policy is an absolute disaster economically and socially? Does he not see the significant contradiction in [...]
Video: Joe Higgins warns Taoiseach that Household Tax will be met with grass-roots campaign of defiance
On December - 14 - 2011
This week the Taoiseach’s Government is declaring a new economic war on the people with its new household tax. It will be a new burden on ordinary people in furtherance of the Government’s ruinous austerity policy of bailing out banks and speculators. Does the Taoiseach have any idea of how angry, frustrated and outraged our [...]
Video: Joe Higgins slams Budget as nothing more than a further bailout of major financial institutions
On December - 7 - 2011
The thrust of this budget – a further instalment of savage austerity – by the FG/LP Government must be seen in the context of the global crisis that erupted on the collapse of the mountain of toxic debt built up in the financial system of the US and Europe – following decades of deregulation and [...]
