Cost Of Living PRESS RELEASE 14 JAN 2015 PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT CONDEMN MALIGN INFLUENCE OF RPS ON WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY Brid Smith, a People Before Profit councillor, has condemned the role that RPS has been granted in the formulation of the Eastern–Midlands Draft Regional Waste Management Plan 2015-2021. ‘A 17 Jan 2015
Austerity DEFEATING THE WATER CHARGES IN 2015 In 2014, the government was forced to backtrack on water charges by the sheer numbers who came out on street protests. But they are playing a longer game and are 14 Jan 2015
Cost Of Living Water Protests December 10th – Merrion Road Side of the Dail The Right to Water protest will assemble at 1pm at the Merrion Road side of the Dail and part of the proceedings will last until 4pm. Those who wish to 9 Dec 2014
Cost Of Living The Irish Exemption – People Power Won Before, and People Power Will Win Again Contrary to what this government would have people think, Ireland does indeed have an exemption from domestic water metering and charging as defined in the EU Water Framework Directive (Article 8 Dec 2014
Cost Of Living PBPA TD calls for emergency debate in Dail on the housing and homeless crisis following tragic discovery of homeless man opposite Dail Government plan to collect water charges from private tenants through private landlords will worsen already disastrous housing crisis In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett has called on the government to 1 Dec 2014
Cost Of Living PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT SAY: WATER CHARGES: KEEP UP THE FIGHT UNTIL THEY ARE SCRAPPED The government is on the run and is desperately trying to get us to buy into water charges. They have cut the charges to take off the heat but as 19 Nov 2014
Cost Of Living Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan talking through their hats (again) On Saturday evening, following the massive protests across the country against Irish Water and the water charges, Enda Kenny tried to claim that the only alternatives to this hated and 13 Nov 2014
Workers Rights Government’s Response to mass protests: You still have to pay Tuesday 4th November 2014 Words are cheap and so the Labour Minister, Alan Kelly, and Irish Water’s John Tierney were told by their PR advisors to say ‘sorry’. But 13 Nov 2014
Cost Of Living Right2Water Local Demos List of local demonstrations…so far Full details of Right2Water local demonstrations will be announced on Tuesday, 28th October. Another national demonstration will be organised in the coming weeks as 2 Nov 2014