Home ownership figures released by the CSO today have been met with calls for the state to scale up investment in public, mixed-income housing. Reacting to the figures, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party) said: The CSO figures prove that, for most middle income households, getting a mortgage to buy a home is an impossibity. [...]
The government’s ‘Help to Buy’ scheme has come under criticism for subsidising builders while failing to address the housing needs of most middle and low income households. Figures released by the Department of Finance show that the scheme is expected to come in well above budget, with an average take-up of €15,000 / household. Speaking [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called for the compulsory confiscation of assets from orders whose institutions contributed to the abuse of women, children and other vulnerable groups in the last century. Workers’ Party Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan said: “The time has for the kid gloves and niceties has long passed. The [...]
Repeal the 8th Amendment! https://www.youtube.com/embed/_eG9e1mrxNo Looking back at campaigning against the 8th Amendment in 1983. Still fighting against it today, we spoke to present and past members including Anne Finnegan, Mary Diskin, Eilish Matthews, Padraig Mannion and Seamus McDonagh. The Eighth Amendment equates the right to life of a pregnant woman with that of [...]
Seamus McDonagh (WP) The Workers’ Party have said that the proposed closure of at least 80 post offices, most of them in rural areas, would amount to “another nail in the coffin of rural Ireland” and the party has called on the government to stop the plan going ahead. Meath East Workers’ Party [...]
The Lord Mayor has come in for criticism for marking the death of the late, former Archbishop of Dublin, in the same moment as the council remembered those babies whose remains were discovered in Tuam last week. Speaking following the March monthly meeting of the city council, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers Party), said: I spoke [...]
Banking policy amounts to ‘public handouts for bankers in hard times, profit privatisation in good times.’ Ryan calls for AIB to be kept in public ownership as a public investment bank. Government plans to re-privatise state-controlled bank AIB have been slammed as “public handouts for bankers in the hard times, and privatisation of profits in [...]
Lorraine Hennessy (Workers' Party) invites women to celebrate International Women's Day, March 8th at Rowlagh Community Centre, Dublin 22. From 7.30pm to 9.15pm. "A day for celebrating - but how do women fare in Ireland 2017? From the cradle to the grave women are unequal and personal safety is a major concern" - Lorraine [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The National Transport Authority (NTA) has faced accusations of favoring privatisation of transport following its comments yesterday (28/2) that private operators can adequately cover all but one Bus Éireann Expressway routes currently facing closure. Speaking in reaction to the NTA’s comments, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) said: [...]
A Workers’ Party councillor has welcomed the decision by the Department of Social Protection to remove a questionable circular that stated that workers who are on strike would not receive their Family Income Supplment (FIS) entitlements. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) spoke following her discovery that circular SW22, which stated that FIS [...]