This article appeared in the Friday Column of the Daily Mail It didn’t take long for reality to give the lie to the Government’s cynical propaganda campaign minimising the effect of the new Household Tax. The ‘sure it’s only €2 a week’ mantra by Environment Minister Phil Hogan and fellow Ministers may not be heard [...]
Press Statement: Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes (CAHWT)
On December - 22 - 2011
So-called ‘Property Tax’ is really a Home Tax on low & middle incomes Speaking at the press conference in Buswells Hotel on behalf of the CAHWT, Malachy Steenson, ACRA and Paul Murphy, Dublin MEP, said: The fast forwarding of the so-called Property Tax nails the lie from the government that ‘just €2 a week’ was [...]
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 [...]
Comment: Mass campaign of non-payment only way of defeating regressive Household tax
On December - 19 - 2011
The first three months of 2012 could turn out to be an historic period in the modern political and social life of this State. It could be when the quiet majority of the population takes a decisive stand against shouldering any more burdens to bail out the major bankers, speculators and bondholders of Europe at [...]
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 [...]
CAHWT Press Statement: Mass campaign of non-payment and non-registration stepped up against new draconian Household Tax
On December - 15 - 2011
Mass campaign of non-payment and non-registration stepped up against new draconian Household Tax Speaking today at Press conference at Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin, on Thursday 15 December 2011: Cllr Ciaran Perry (Ind) gave background : “The CAHWT was set up over the last 12 months in preparation for a new burden of household, property and water [...]
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 [...]
