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	<title>Joe Higgins TD</title>
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	<description>Socialist Party TD for Dublin West</description>
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		<title>Comment: Rejection of Austerity Treaty will boost growing European anti-austerity movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘Take the gun out of Irish politics!.’ This was the refrain of the establishment political parties for the last third of the Twentieth Century, meaning that people should be free from any threats when it came to deciding structures governing the future of this island. These are the very same parties which are now holding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/05/comment-rejection-of-austerity-treaty-will-boost-growing-european-anti-austerity-movement/</link>
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		<title>AusterityTreaty.ie Website &amp; Pamphlet Launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A press conference was held today launching the Socialist Party&#8217;s austeritytreaty.ie website and the pamphlet on “Austerity Treaty explained: how it undermines democracy &#38; institutionalises austerity”. In contrast to the taxpayer funded government website, the austeritytreaty.ie website gives the true story about the impact of this Treaty on people’s lives. In a series of short videos, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/05/austeritytreaty-ie-website-pamphlet-launched/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Austerity Treaty will only serve to deepen crisis across Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A profoundly sinister attack on the democratic rights of the Irish people is being perpetrated by the government and other proponents of the Austerity Treaty. We are being threatened that we have no choice but to vote ‘Yes’ or we will be shut out from all sources of funding in the event that, come the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/05/comment-austerity-treaty-will-only-serve-to-deepen-crisis-across-europe/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Rejection of Treaty would be recognition of disastrous austerity policies not working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it was raining soup, the man would be out with a fork,’ famously said a disgruntled Fine Gael backbencher many years ago, in reference to his party leader’s tendency to always choose the wrong policy option. This unfortunate tendency now characterises the Fine Gael/Labour Government in its response to the current economic crisis. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/04/comment-rejection-of-treaty-would-be-recognition-of-disastrous-austerity-policies-not-working/</link>
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		<title>Video: Paul Murphy MEP questions the Taoiseach on the Austerity Treaty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Murphy MEP questions the Taoiseach on the Austerity Treaty He asks three main questions in relation to the Treaty. Firstly, why was the stabilitytreaty.ie website clearly biased in favour of the Yes side and potentially in breach of the McKenna judgement. Secondly, he puts it to the Taoiseach as to why voters should believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/04/video-paul-murphy-mep-questions-the-taoiseach-on-the-austerity-treaty/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Water charges are just paving the way for privatisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who walked into newsagents shops all over the country on Wednesday morning might easily have staggered out in a confused and shell shocked state after glancing at the morning newspapers. A plethora of banner headlines would have leapt out at them with horror stories of a raft of new fees, charges and taxes awaiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/04/comment-water-charges-are-just-paving-the-way-for-privatisation/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Government &amp; Local Government Agency Continue to Mislead over Numbers Liable for  Home Tax  Registration &amp; Payment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Column in Friday&#8217;s Irish Daily Mail I challenge the Local Government Management Agency and the Government over their cynical and misleading use of baseless estimates for the numbers of houses in this State liable according to the legislation for registration payment of the Home Tax. I appeal to media outles to objectively assess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/04/comment-government-local-government-agency-continue-to-mislead-over-numbers-liable-for-home-tax-registration-payment/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: Joe Higgins TD calls on Ministers Burton and Bruton to intervene into GAME disupte</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Higgins TD calls on Ministers Burton and Bruton to intervene into GAME disupte GAME workers now into 8th day of store occupations The GAME workers are now into their 8th day of store occupations across 13 different stores nationwide. It has now become apparent that a takeover of 333 of the British stores has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/04/press-statement-joe-higgins-td-calls-on-ministers-burton-and-bruton-to-intervene-into-game-disupte/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: Joe Higgins TD and Clare Daly TD offer full support and assistance to the workers of Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game stores suddenly announced their closure on Monday resulting in 121 workers losing their jobs without warning. Many of the workers have provided considerable years of service to the games retailer. The workers have now courageously decided to occupy 13 of the stores across the country. Joe Higgins TD said &#8220;I would like to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/press-statement-joe-higgins-td-and-clare-daly-td-offer-full-support-and-assistance-to-the-workers-of-game/</link>
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		<title>Video: Gilmore urged to abolish unjust Household Tax in light of mass boycott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The conclusion of the planning tribunal found that corruption in Irish political life was both endemic and systemic. Does the Tánaiste understand that this has enormously increased the anger and sense of aggrievement of the majority of ordinary decent people? Is he aware that it has also enormously strengthened the boycott of the regressive household [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/video-gilmore-urged-to-abolish-unjust-household-tax-in-light-of-mass-boycott/</link>
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		<title>Comment: The Mahon Tribunal exposes endemic corruption that existed in Irish politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The massive opposition across the State to the Household Tax has featured prominently in the media in recent days. Over the next while, the Mahon Tribunal Report that will feature strongest. What should not be lost sight of is that there is a strong connection between the two issues. The Mahon Tribunal at first glance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/2287/</link>
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		<title>Press Statement: Majority in society pay massive price for corruption and dishonesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Higgins Press Statement on the Mahon Report: &#8220;The report of the Mahon Tribunal is a damning indictment of the corrupt nexus beween developers and establishment politicians especially from Fine Fail. It will serve to remind people of the scandalous rezonings and related bribery that came to light 15 years ago and the disastrous effects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/press-statement-majority-in-society-pay-massive-price-for-corruption-and-dishonesty/</link>
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		<title>Video: Corruption revealed by Mahon report will strenghten boycott of Household Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bring the Tánaiste back to what he stated in the Chamber yesterday on the household charge when he asserted that people wished to pay. Members of the Government have been stating all week that the reason 83% of householders have not registered and paid as of last night is they all are waiting until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/video-corruption-revealed-by-mahon-report-will-strenghten-boycott-of-household-tax/</link>
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		<title>Video: Joe Higgins calls on Government to immediately introduce a wealth tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I refer to the Sunday Independent of last Sunday. In case the Taoiseach does not know, his Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, will tell him it is not a left-leaning or socialist news-sheet. In a thorough survey the Sunday Independent found that the 300 super-richest people in this country increased their wealth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/video-joe-higgins-calls-on-government-to-immediately-introduce-a-wealth-tax/</link>
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		<title>Household Tax Campaign Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[p> It can also be downloaded to be shown at public meetings etc, simply click here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/household-tax-campaign-video/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Government must be held accountable for blackmail clause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘The European train will be leaving the station on January 1, 2013 and the Irish people should be on board.’ So declared Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dail on Wednesday morning in response to a question of mine relating to the Referendum on the EU Fiscal Compact which the government has been obliged to call. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/comment/</link>
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		<title>Video: Ag troid i gcoinne an Chonradh Deine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this video is &#8216;Joe Higgins tackles Government on Austerity Treaty&#8217; All Dail proceeding were taken through Irish on the morning of Wednesday 7th March. Joe&#8217;s column this week covers the same topic if you require an English explanation of the debate. Deir cinnlínte i nuachtáin na maidne go bhfuil an Stát chun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/video-ag-troid-i-gcoinne-an-chonradh-deine/</link>
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		<title>Comment: Belmayne residents victims of speculator&#8217;s greed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It might be expected that when it is brought to the attention of the leader of this State that a group of citizens is being treated shabbily by public or private agencies, or both, with dire consequences for their lives and welfare, he would attempt to get to the heart of the issue and find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/03/comment-belmayne-residents-victims-of-speculators-greed/</link>
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		<title>Video: Government tries to silence allegation of Belmayne fire hazard cover-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some months after the scandal of the fire hazard at Priory Hall, which is causing awful hardship to the innocent residents there, another fire hazard scandal is unfolding at Belmayne, which is also on the north Dublin fringe. Kitara developers have written to hundreds of apartment owners to tell them they might have to move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/02/video-government-tries-to-silence-allegation-of-belmayne-fire-hazard-cover-up/</link>
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		<title>CAHWT Press Statement: 92% still not paying home tax with one month to go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only 133,365 properties have registered and paid the household tax, amounting to only 8% registration with one month to go. The figures were revealed on Morning Ireland by the head of the household charge board. This confirms that mass non-registration of the tax is entirely possible. The CAHWT calls on householders to maintain the boycott [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joehiggins.ie/2012/02/cahwt-press-statement-92-still-not-paying-home-tax-with-one-month-to-go/</link>
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