Seamus McDonagh The Workers' Party has called for the Clerk of Works to be given responsibility and resourcing for all new building inspections in every local authority, in the wake of the nationwide school buildings crisis. Séamus McDonagh represents the Meath area for the Workers Party, where a number of schools risk closure. He [...]
A Workers' Party councillor has called on the OPW to reverse its decision to sell two residential sites which it owns in Dublin city. The sites are due to be auctioned by Lambert Smith Hampton on November 6th. Cllr. Éilis Ryan said: "It is extraordinary that at the height of the housing crisis, we wake [...]
Budget 2019 is set to expand subsidies to private sector landlords, in the form of HAP and other schemes, by 40% - compared to just a 20% increase in spending on building and acquiring new public housing. This is according to Workers' Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan. Commenting on the figures, Cllr. Ryan said: "Fine Gael [...]
100% interest relief amounts to an increased annual tax break of €100 per landlord The Workers’ Party have said it is immoral of the government to hand a €120 million tax break to landlords who have consistently raised rents throughout the housing crisis. Responding to the Fine Gael / Fianna Fáil sponsored budget, announced today [...]
David Gardiner, Workers’ Party representative for Lucan, has criticised Fianna Fáil and Labour councillors on South Dublin County Council for voting with Fine Gael to sell-off public land in Kilcarbery, and has called for publicly-owned land to be used for public housing. “It’s clear that Fianna Fáil and Labour jumped on the bandwagon last week [...]
There have been calls for an immediate recruitment drive to increase staff numbers in Dublin Fire Brigade, in the wake of yet another day of fire appliances remaining off road due to staff shortages. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party) said: “On Friday (October 5th), at one point there was no fully-staffed fire appliance operational at [...]
The Workers’ Party is calling on our members and supporters to vote for the best candidate in the field, Michael D. Higgins, in the upcoming Presidential elections on October 26th. President Higgins stands out from the other candidates in the field as having the aim of building a more equal society based on peace and [...]
The failure of the repair and leasing scheme to come close to meeting its targets demonstrates the inability of the private sector to tackle the housing crisis, according to Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan. Cllr. Ryan was responding to this morning’s (Monday) reports that the Repair and Leasing scheme has delivered only 15 homes nationwide, [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan (WP) The city councillor behind an initiative to roll out air pollution monitoring in some of Cork's residential neighbourhoods has expressed disappointment that his proposals are being rejected because of budget constraints. Workers' Party city councillor in Cork, Ted Tynan, said: "The motion I proposed to Cork city council would [...]
Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings to the Communist Party of Turkey on the occasion of its Conference on the 15th-16th September 2018 in Izmir under the theme "To the Workers” and sends its congratulations and best wishes to the TKP, the oldest party in Turkey, on the occasion of [...]
