Mayfield Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has described the situation where over 500 local authority flats and houses remain empty in Cork City at a time of housing crisis as a “no brainer”. Speaking at tonight’s (Monday) meeting of Cork City Council, Cllr. Tynan said that with 8,000 people on Cork City Council’s housing list [...]
The President of the Workers Party, Michael Finnegan, has described the government’s decision to sell Bord Gáis Energy to Centrica and two other multinational companies as an outrage. Mr. Finnegan said that the decision represented a u-turn on the part of Minister Pat Rabbitte who a fortnight ago announced that the company had been withdrawn [...]
Cork Workers Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the government’s decision to make the new Irish Water company a subsidiary of Bord Gáis is merely a diversionary tactic as both it and its parent company will be privatised within the next few years with thousands of job losses, poorer quality water and huge increases [...]
The President of the Workers Party, Michael Finnegan, has said that the announcement that householders will be made pay up to €300 for the installation of water meters in their home has shown that the government has learned nothing from the mass resistance of people to the Household Charge. Mr. Finnegan said that the government’s [...]