The Workers’ Party have said that the announcement that the 2017 HSE Service Plan will budget for 24,000 fewer Medical Cards is a plain admission that severe health cuts are back on the agenda and seriously undermines the government’s claims of a recovery in the economy. Dublin Central Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has this morning launched its public housing finance policy, “Financial Aspects of a Solution to the Irish Housing Crisis”. The launch comes ahead of this afternoon’s city council vote on whether to sell O’Devaney Gardens – a 14 acre site of city council land formerly used for [...]
Workers Party Ard Fheis, Dublin, 18/19 October 2016 Over 150 delegates and observers attended the Workers’ Party Ard Fheis on Friday (18th November) and Saturday (19th November) in the Communications Workers’ Union Hall in Dublin 1, where motions were passed on a broad range of issues including public housing, reproductive rights and Traveller [...]
Dublin's Merrion Hotel this morning cancelled the press launch of the “National Party,” an initiative of former Youth Defence leader Justin Barrett. The launch was due to take place in the hotel tomorrow (Thursday), but was cancelled following significant public opposition directed towards the hotel. The Workers’ Party has welcomed the Merrion Hotel’s decision, saying it [...]
The Workers’ Party will this evening (Monday 15th November) bring a proposal to Dublin City Council’s annual budget meeting that the owners of vacant commercial properties begin paying full commercial rates. Currently, many business owners who leave their properties vacant gain a 50% rebate for their commercial rates in a given year. Speaking ahead of [...]
Cllr. Eilis Ryan (2nd from right) supporting ASTI members The Workers’ Party has said that this mornings’ lockout of teachers across the country marks the beginning of the end of the Landsdowne Road Agreement. The statement comes as tens of thousands of teachers arrived to work this morning to find gates locked. [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party have warned that the latest figures which show officially over 1,000 people are homeless in the capital is “only the tip of a deadly iceberg” and that the real homeless figures are much higher. Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that were it not for the [...]
The Workers’ Party have accused the government of hiding behind the Citizen’s Assembly in relation to this week’s AAA/PBP Dáil motion calling for referendum to repeal the 8th amendment. Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that it was clear that the Citizen’s Assembly was merely a mechanism to allow the government to kick fraught issues [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan has said that the newly introduced measures on vulture funds and tax avoidance are purely a symbolic move to assuage public anger while in real terms property speculation and overseas tax avoidance remain a highly lucrative enterprise for those with significant wealth. Cllr. Ryan [...]
Mock citizen's arrest of "property vulture" Workers' Party members picket property developers conference in Dublin today (Friday, 14th October) The Workers’ Party has condemned as grossly inappropriate the attendance of Dublin City Council planners at a conference organised by and for Irish property developers in Dublin today (Friday, 14th October). At a demonstration [...]
