Republic of Ireland
Government jobs strategy must include concrete job creation
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 |
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In a statement the United Left Alliance (ULA) has said that it fully supports the petition launched by Thomas Pringle TD and the Dail Technical group seeking a referendum on the proposed new inter-governmental fiscal treaty agreed on Monday by 25 EU leaders. 
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Investors who bought Anglo bonds on secondary markets set to make massive profits at the tax payer’s expense Bondholder payout equivalent to a third of all 2012 Budget cuts and austerity measures.
ULA Finance spokesperson to challenge Bundestag budgetary committee over European narrative on Irish crisis In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett, TD and Finance spokesperson for the United Left Alliance, condemned the handover of €1.25 billion to the ECB today which will go to wealthy speculators who had capitalised on the demise of Anglo and bought up discounted bonds in the secondary market. Most of the trading on those bonds took place in closed, proprietary bond-trading systems by professional stockbrokers. Mr. Boyd Barrett pointed out that the final recipients of today’s payment are investors who bought Irish bonds in the secondary markets at vastly reduced cost. The ULA TD emphasized that the money to make these payments is coming straight out of public services, to the detriment of the ordinary citizens. |
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In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD has expressed his shock and outrage, after receiving a call this morning from Mental Health Patient advocate and whistleblower, Lousie Baliff, where she informed him that she had been sacked this week by the HSE, in what appears to be a clear act of retaliation against her following her public highlighting of appalling treatment and conditions of mental health patients in St Brendan’s Grangegorman, shortly before Christmas. |
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Councillor Brid Smith, People Before Profit has condemned ‘the legalised extortion’ of a €100 standing charge being imposed by Greyhound for waste collection in the Dublin City Council area.
On Friday Dublin Corporation binmen collected the city's waste for the last time as The Greyhound Company takes over the service from today. Cllr Brid Smith has expressed grave concerns over three aspects of the new arrangement: 1. Information on the exact financial arrangement between Dublin City Council and Greyhound are being withheld from elected representatives. Under the guise of ‘commercial sensitivity’ an insidious form of censorship has been imposed. But the people of Dublin have every right to scrutinise arrangements made with private companies. What right do unelected city managers have to do deals without public transparency’ 2. Dublin City Council has given Greyhound the right to pursue people who owe the council money for waste charges. No information has been provided on how much money will go back to the council or what cut Greyhound will get. Instead a private company has been given the right to harass people who are already stressed out by huge bills. 3. The workers of Dublin City Council – who have given loyal service over the years have been treated in a disgraceful manner. They have been given no guarantees about their earnings – but have been told to turn up each morning this week like ‘spailpin fanachs” to find out where they will be working. This is no way to treat workers in the 21st century. |
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Who are the United Left Alliance (ULA)?We are an alliance of left wing groups, including the People Before Profit Alliance and individuals who came together for the General Election 2011. The Alliance is opposed to the governments’ bailouts and the slash and burn policies which are only making the crisis worse. In the general election we aim to provide a real alternative to the establishment parties as well as Labour and Sinn Fein, who also accept the capitalist market and refuse to rule out coalition with right wing parties. The approach of a Fine Gael / Labour government in power would not be fundamentally different than this government. The ULA stood candidates including Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett (PBPA), Cllr Joan Collins (PBPA), MEP Joe Higgins (SP) & Cllr Seamus Healy (TWUG) throughout the country and all the above were elected.
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As long as there are elements of our society that continue to promote anger by the scapegoating and targeting immigrants including migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers or even students, we need to work to expose these myths and challenge racist ideas.
Love Music Hate Racism Ireland wants to promote racial integration and education through musically orientated events, public meetings, workshops, and most importantly by working together with different communities to address the issues they find important. We will be putting on events across the country ranging from open mike and acoustic sessions, to gigs with full bands and DJs, targeting music of all tastes, cultures and genres. We will also incorporate art, sport and family events into this work.
We aim to have a network of support for each and every person involved in LMHR across the county and we encourage you to make suggestions and to put on your own events and start your own groups with help from this network. Visit: |
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