Budget Day looms for the Fine Gael/Labour Government. On Tuesday, December 6, it will be clear for all to see how this government lives up to the claims of its leaders upon taking office in March, that it was the product of a ‘democratic revolution’ and represented a fundamental break with the cynical establishment politics [...]
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 [...]
Full Frontal Assault on Democratic Rights of Europeans as Markets dictate appointments in both Italy and Greece
On November - 22 - 2011
As recently as a year ago when I and others on the Left wrote and spoke about ‘the dictatorship of the financial markets’ many people thought we were exaggerating. However after the events of the past few weeks, can there be any doubt but that we are witnessing a full frontal assault on democratic rights [...]
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 [...]
Video: Joe Higgins challenges Taoiseach on job losses and hardship to families over closure of Barracks
On November - 15 - 2011
Did the Cabinet decide today to close down army barracks in Clonmel, Mullingar, Castlebar and Cavan? What is the rationale for this proposal when there are no savings to the State? For the 600 soldiers and their families, most of whom are workers in uniform as ordinary rank and file members, this will be an [...]
Video: Joe Higgins TD questions the Tanaiste on the illegal detention of Flotilla activists
On November - 10 - 2011
Last Friday, a foreign state, Israel, jailed 14 Irish citizens who were snatched from international waters while bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has not uttered a single word of protest in public in response to this outrage. This morning, by agreement with the Irish embassy in [...]
