Cllr. Éilis Ryan Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan has called for the introduction of a new zoning category for Dublin’s vacant lands, to ensure housing built on those lands is affordable. Introducing the proposal, Cllr. Ryan said: “The vacant land register lists almost 31 hectares of empty, privately-owned land in the [...]
The Workers’ Party have issued a call for rent caps to be introduced across all purpose-built student accommodation, to regulate the rapidly-expanding private student accommodation market. The calls come in the wake of an announcement by Global Student Accommodation (GSA) and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital that they are expanding their investment in the market [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that the failure of the country’s local authorities to meet minimal construction targets belongs at the door of the government and of Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy in particular. Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan said the minister could not expect local authorities to reach even these insignificant targets because he [...]
There have been calls for the government to reconsider its strategy of employing private developers to build social housing, in the wake of the collapse of Carillion construction company today (Monday). Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan called for the government to rule out the use of any Public-Private Partnership mechanisms in the ‘Housing Land Initiative’ [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason Reilly’s claims in social media post about the Workers’ Party’s attitude to O’Cualann Housing development in Ballymun are ‘totally fabricated’ says Ballymun Workers’ Party representative Gavin Mendel-Gleason Mendel-Gleason stated: ‘My attention was brought to a post on Facebook by Ballymun Sinn Féin Councillor Reilly in which she claimed that the Workers’ [...]
The Workers’ Party have expressed deep concern at a number of changes to planning regulations which Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy proposes to make and which would increase apartment building heights, reduce minimum parking spaces and the number of windows. Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party Cork City Councillor Ted Tynan said the proposal panders [...]
Two-thirds of families in homeless accommodation are lone parent families 3000 public housing units needed in northeast inner city to clear lists The Workers’ Party have today (Tuesday) issued a proposal for a public housing development to built on the site of a former Magdalene Laundry on Seán McDermott Street in Dublin’s North Inner City. [...]
Lorraine Hennessy The Workers’ Party have said that while the crisis in government may have receded for the moment following the resignation of Minister Frances Fitzgerald, the multiple crises faced by working class people across the state continue unabated and with no sense of urgency on the part for the Taoiseach or his [...]
70 Cork apartment tenants face eviction as result of landlord "renovations" loophole The Workers’ Party has called on the government to put an emergency bill through the Oireachtas to urgently close a loophole which allows landlords to evict tenants where major renovations are being carried out in a rented home. Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan [...]
Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) has this morning (Friday, 3rd November) called for City Council CEO Owen Keegan to resign, in the wake of last night’s Prime Time Investigates documentary on standards in the private rental sector. Commenting on the situation, the Workers’ Party councillor said: “There is absolute clarity [...]
