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 [...]
Video: Joe Higgins slams Budget as nothing more than a further bailout of major financial institutions
On December - 7 - 2011
Comment: Austerity Budget will do nothing to stimulate growth but will only serve to hammer the poor and vulnerable
On December - 7 - 2011
It’s said that when the Chairman of a major football club vows that an under-pressure manager has his full confidence and protection, the Manager should prepare for a hit. Sadly in the cynical world of the Irish political establishment we have an equivalent phenomenon. In his ‘Address to the Nation’ on Sunday night Taoiseach Enda [...]
Video: Joe Higgins TD asks FG/Labour why they hit working-class people rather than the super-rich
On December - 6 - 2011
I am sure all those people out there today suffering and looking forward to the savage cuts will be very impressed looking in here this afternoon. Does the Taoiseach accept that at the heart of the political establishment in this State, there is a monumental hypocrisy? When the same cuts in child benefit and in [...]
Video: Joe Higgins highlights plight of Home Payments customers to Tanaiste
On December - 2 - 2011
I would like to raise the plight of a cohort of people in this city and this State. We have not heard about them for many months. They are being overlooked because they are ordinary working-class people who do not have the resources to hire expensive lawyers or make large donations to the political establishment. [...]
Video: Joe Higgins TD puts Taoiseach to the test on Labour’s pre election promises
On November - 23 - 2011
After his nomination on 9 March the Taoiseach said in the Dáil, “Honesty is not alone our best policy but our only policy.” What is honest about the cynical kite flying by half of the Cabinet in the last week, in manipulating the media and the people with stories of horror cuts and charges in [...]
Video: Joe Higgins questions Taoiseach on scandalous speculation of carbon tax credits by financial markets
On November - 23 - 2011
In all seriousness, does the Taoiseach not see the glaring contradiction between wanting genuine and effective action to reduce pollution – if we take carbon as pollution – on the planet but relying on wild speculation in pollution credits on the world’s financial markets as a method of achievement? Does the Taoiseach agree that his [...]
Video: Joe Higgins urges the Taoiseach to set up a State Remediation Scheme to resolve the worries of homeowners who are affected by pyrite
On November - 16 - 2011
The trauma continues for tens of thousands of homeowners who, with their families, comprise some hundreds of thousands of ordinary people whose homes are exploding in slow motion, but relentlessly so, because of pyrite-induced heaving emanating from contamination of underfloor infill. It is especially acute in west Dublin, north Dublin, Meath, Kildare and some other [...]
