WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party have said that the real reason the government’s water charges commission will not be holding planned public meetings is because the commission’s ruling in favour of charges has already been decided and the commission members “are afraid to look the public in the eye”. This [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the news that Irish Water is to take over Cork City Council’s 3,200 commercial water clients this month is the clearest indication yet that the government review of Irish Water is a ruse. Cllr. Tynan said the move shows that in spite [...]
Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that reports that Irish Water is seeking an extra €300 million to offset water charges income during the 9 month suspension are a clear indication that the government has no intention of abolishing water charges or the “failed utility”. Cllr. Ted Tynan Cllr. Tynan said [...]
The Workers’ Party have called on the leadership of the Right2Water campaign to organise a further national rally against the water charges in order to increase the pressure on political parties and deputies who had been elected on a mandate to abolish water charges and Irish Water to keep those promises. Workers’ Party spokesperson Seamus [...]
The Workers’ Party have called for any incoming government to commit to reversing cuts made in recent years to pensioners’ fuel and telephone allowances, to compensate them for water charges paid in the past year. Workers’ Party councillor in Dublin, Éilis Ryan, said; “The Workers’ Party has consistently argued for a boycott of Irish Water. [...]
Time to repudiate the McCarthy Report on the sale of State Assets Cllr. Ted Tynan, the Workers’ Party candidate in Cork North Central has said that the massive backlash against water charges and Irish Water had put the outgoing government’s privatisation plans seriously on the back foot but he feared these plans could be revived [...]
The Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin North West, Jimmy Dignam, has offered his solidarity and support to the water charges protestors before the criminal courts this week. Dignam said, ‘These trumped up charges are a clear case of political policing and are designed to intimidate citizens from showing their opposition to the austerity agenda of [...]
Responding to the current flurry of Irish Water text messages being sent to householders, Seamus McDonagh, who is contesting the General Election on behalf of the Workers’ Party in Meath East, today (Monday) said that voters are daily being reminded of what he termed ‘the ongoing fiasco’ of water charges. WP Meath East candidate [...]
The announcement of February 26th as the date for the 2016 general election hasn’t come a moment too soon according to the Workers’ Party. The Party’s President Michael Donnelly said that the long drawn out announcement of the election date by Taoiseach Enda Kenny amounted to “the greatest walk of shame in the annals of [...]
Some of the Workers' Party contingent at the Dublin Right2Water march Despite continuous incessant rain across Ireland today thousands of people turned out for the latest in a series of Right 2 Water marches in protest against the double taxation of Water Charges and the continued metering programme of Irish Water, the [...]
