Richard Boyd Barrett TD speaking on 'How do we get real democracy?' 8pm Metropole Hotel

http://richardboydbarrett.ie/2013/05/02/video-report-of-walk-in-the-wood...

Kilmurray Lodge Hotel 8pm Organiser: Noreen Ryan 087 2458144

VOTE NO TO SELL OUT DEAL
Croke Park 2 is the worst ever deal negotiated by union leaders. It will undermine long standing rights that workers won decades ago.
The original Croke Park deal has another year to run and was not due to expire until June 2014. Yet the union leaders allowed the government to tear it up and put an even worse one in place. The new proposals mean:

The Irish government is giving away our natural resources. Oil and Gas exploration licences have been handed out to big multi nationals under terms that mean the Irish people do not gain jobs, a revenue stream or security of supply. Practices with serious environmental consequences, such as fracking,
are not ruled out under law.

The end of 2012 saw Irish people finally taking to the streets. The vicious healthcare cuts brought 20,000 on to the streets of Waterford, 8000 in Navan.
The hated property tax brought thousands on to the streets on Cork. 20,000 marched thru the streets of Dublin against austerity.

In a statement Richard Boyd Barrett TD, People Before Profit/ULA has called for the public to support a demonstration called by the Home Help/Home Care Action Group – a group established by home-help workers over recent weeks – which will assemble at 3pm tomorrow (Oct 17th) at the Spire at O’ Connell St, Dublin,before marching to Dáil Eireann.

For more see: http://richardboydbarrett.ie/2012/10/16/people-before-profit-td-calls-for-public-to-join-protest-tomorrow-against-home-help-cuts-and-privatisation/

The Government will today launch its Action Plan for Jobs 2012. In a statement ULA Finance spokersperson Richard Boyd Barrett TD said that measures must be more than token and must include real concrete jobs. Reports suggest that much of the plan will include measures in the area of job seeking, extending the jobs seeking process, internships and work experience that does not amount to real and actual jobs.

Estimates from the Department of Finance released yesterday show that low and middle income earners have been hardest hit bythe Government austerity measures while top earners are not bearing any of the brunt of the goverment's policies.

These staggering figures more than negate any jobs initiative.

Richard Boyd Barrett TD said, "Slashing incomes and as a result, people's ability to spend depresses demand and small and medium businesses are forced to close with loss of jobs".

"Stimulating small and medium businesses is a good measure but who is going to spend in them to keep them going if wages and social welfare continue to be cut as the Government tries to fulfill it's obligation to the IMF and the bankers".

"With unemployment sky-rocketing as construction industry figures show today this action plan for jobs has to go beyond rhetoric and token measures with the creation of real and actual jobs and abandoning the failed policy of austerity"

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Richard Boyd Barrett challenges inhuman treatment of children with disabilities and their families as government tightens the austerity screw on Domiciliary Care allowance

Highlights case of 9 year old with severe autism denied Domiciliary Care Allowance