Young intellectually disabled people must not be victims of State cutbacks

JOE HIGGINS may be as daft as a brush in political and economic terms.

Or he may be the new economic messiah. It all depends on your point of view. Whichever he is, he is also as principled and honest as the day is long. The idea that Joe Higgins would deliberately misuse expenses is just a joke — and everyone knows it. Yet the media has been banging on about poor Joe’s expenses for a week now.

At the same time, there have been lead stories in several newspapers about a row between two Oireachtas committees about which one of them should conduct an inquiry into the night of the bank guarantee. Yet everyone knows that no Oireachtas committee has the power to get to the bottom of that unless we change the Constitution. Which we decided a few months ago not to do.