{"id":335,"date":"2014-12-08T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bi.fusio.net\/?page_id=335"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:46:06","slug":"joe-higgins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/joe-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/joe-higgins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/joe-higgins.jpg\" alt=\"joe-higgins\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Deputy Joe Higgins is a Socialist Party TD for the Dublin West constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Higgins served as councillor for the Mulhuddart and Castleknock wards and as MEP for Dublin. He was elected to the D\u00e1il in 1997 and re-elected in 2002. He spent 2009 and 2010 at the European Parliament and returned to the D\u00e1il after his election in 2011. In Europe, Deputy Higgins worked with the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on International Trade. He is currently a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform.<\/p>\n<p>He currently writes for his party\u2019s paper,\u00a0<i>The Socialist.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>The Committee<\/h2>\n<div class='row members'><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/ciaran-lynch-chairman\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ciaran-lynch.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Ciaran Lynch (Chairman)<\/h4><\/div><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/pearse-doherty\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pearse-doherty.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Pearse Doherty<\/h4><\/div><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/michael-mcgrath\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/michael-mcgrath.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Michael McGrath<\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class='row members'><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/eoghan-murphy\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/eoghan-murphy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Eoghan Murphy<\/h4><\/div><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/kieran-odonnell\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kieran-ODonnell.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Kieran O\u2019Donnell<\/h4><\/div><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/john-paul-phelan\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-paul-phelan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>John Paul Phelan<\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class='row members'><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/sean-d-barrett\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sean-barrett.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Sean D Barrett<\/h4><\/div><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/michael-darcy\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/michael-darcy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Michael D\u2019Arcy<\/h4><\/div><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/marc-macsharry\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/marc-macsharry.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Marc MacSharry<\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class='row members'><div class='col-xs-4'><a href='https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/susan-okeeffe\/'><img width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/susan-o-keeffe.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><h4>Susan O\u2019Keeffe<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Joe Higgins is a Socialist Party TD for the Dublin West constituency. Deputy Higgins served as councillor for the Mulhuddart and Castleknock wards and as MEP for Dublin. He was elected to the D\u00e1il in 1997 and re-elected in 2002. He spent 2009 and 2010 at the European Parliament and returned to the D\u00e1il&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/the-committee\/joe-higgins\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions\/2731"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}