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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Joe Higgins’ opening contribution at National Forum of Campaign Against Household and Water Tax
On September - 13 - 2011
Joe Higgins’ opening contribution at the National Forum of the Campaign Against Household and Water Tax last Saturday Joe discusses lessons from previous campaigns, including the Anti-Bin and Water Charges campaigns, the importance of the campaign being centred around non-payment and how the structres of the campaign must be fully democratic to encourage participation of [...]
VIDEO: Kenny Quizzed on Household Tax Plans
On July - 21 - 2011
The agents of the speculators are the European Union and the IMF, while the Government is their enforcer in ravaging the living standards and hitting the employment prospects of the people. The memorandum dictates that in the fourth review by the end of the year under the heading of fiscal consolidation there shall be a [...]
VIDEO: Local Hospital U-turn and lies
On July - 19 - 2011
Joe Higgins questions the Taoiseach about Roscommon hospital and his Party’s break with pre-election commmitments. This is yet another u-turn by the Government and another savage cut on a local community. Fine Gael and Labour are hiding behind HIQA and alleged surveys to justify this brutal downgrading of a community hospital We must build unified [...]
