The extensive leaks from the report of the Keane group on distressed mortgages will be greeted with bitter disappointment by the 95,000 homeowners in mortgage difficulties, of whom 40,000 or more are in arrears of more than six months. While there may be a few speculators among these, the vast majority are victims of the [...]
Video: Joe Higgins asks Taoiseach why he will not write-down mortgages to their current value
On October - 12 - 2011
Further savage cuts to Blanchardstown hospital announced whilst €3.5 billion guaranteed to Anglo bondholders
On October - 8 - 2011
The dedicated staff at all levels in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, should be forgiven if they are in a state of some confusion and great anger this morning. As a result of a huge effort by them involving innovation, imagination, dedication and cooperation, the hospital was recently rated by the Health Services Executive as having among [...]
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, [...]
U-turn on burning of bondholders exposes Government yet again
On September - 24 - 2011
In June the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, was in Washington DC and held talks there with the International Monetary Fund and with the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, on Ireland’s financial crisis. The Minister made headlines in the world’s financial media and got massive coverage in the Irish media when he declared that the [...]
Video: Joe Higgins speaks on disastrous policies for ordinary people of the EFSF
On September - 23 - 2011
The European Financial Stability Facility was a measure designed, not in the public interest as is claimed in the Title to the Bill, but really fundamentally to salvage the European banks and major European speculators from the consequences of their reckless lending over the previous ten years. Members are aware they gambled wildly on property [...]
Video: Joe questions Taoiseach on Governments capitulation to ECB over burning of bondholders
On September - 20 - 2011
Joe on Leader’s Questions earlier today questioning the Taoiseach on the Government’s capitulation to ECB over burning of bondholders. As the Government has reversed plans to put €3.5 billion of losses onto Senior bondholders of Anglo Irish and Irish Nationwide, Joe questions why it is ordinary people yet again who are made to bare the [...]
