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Tina MacVeigh People Before Profit representative in Dublin South Central said, “It is scandalous that one of the biggest banks in the country has not processed payments on client accounts for the past 48 hours."

"People have not recieved wages and social welfare payments and are also reporting that other payments registered to their accounts before the ‘technical difficulties’ have now disappeared. This is putting people under huge stress at a time when ordinary people have faced savage cuts to wages, services and jobs.

When we voted on the EU Fiscal Treaty we were assured that a Yes Vote would bring stability. However, when banks are allowed to conduct their affairs in the interest of their wealthy shareholders and go unregulated by the state, there is a collapse of prudence and responsibility in the financial sector.

It is the ordinary people, yet again, who pay the price.”

At a press conference today in the Mont Clare hotel in Dublin, the People Before Profit Alliance said that the government were lying and deceiving the public about the provisions of both the Fiscal Treaty and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).

PBPA said the government had refused to acknowledge the enormous level of further cuts and austerity that would be necessary to meet the deficit and debt targets contained in the Fiscal Treaty, even though the figures were well known to them.

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People Before Profit Alliance tells Government to stop the bullying and debate the real content of the Treaty

People Before Profit Alliance calls for No to austerity treaty

The People Before Profit Alliance will hold a press conference on Wednesday 2nd May to launch its campaign against the Fiscal Treaty.
The Press Conference will take place in Buswells Hotel, Molesworth St. at 11.30am.

Speakers will include Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Joan Collins TD, Cllr. Brid Smith and Ailbhe Smith (Chairperson People Before profit)
At tomorrow’s press conference People Before Profit Alliance will outline the main planks of its opposition to the Fiscal Treaty and challenge the arguments being put forward by the Government and others on the Yes side.

In particular PBPA will counter a number of myths being promoted by supporters of the treaty on issues such as future funding for the state, the costs to the state of joining ESM and the economic consequences of adhering to the treaty’s debt and deficit requirements.
PBPA will outline its plan for a vigorous grassroots campaign across the country linking up with communities and movements opposing the wider agenda of cuts and austerity.

The plan to build a new national children’s hospital at the Mater Hospital site was always problematic. I now call on the Minister for health and the HSE to invest in our existing children’s’ hospitals. The Children’s Hospital in Crumlin wants to build a new cardiac critical care facility and to upgrade their cancer treatment facilities. They need to replace old and cramped wards.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has this week expressed alarm at what they say is a 700% increase in children waiting on hospital beds. They also point out that children ‘not infrequently’ spent over 12 hours on trolleys in paediatric emergency departments (PEDs).

They say there has been an eightfold increase in the number of children who receive complete episode of care in PEDs, as opposed to 2008.

These are issues which need to be dealt with urgently by the Minister and the HSE.

www.joan-collins.org

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"

www.richardboydbarrett.ie