Melisa Halpin
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Cllr Melisa Halpin of the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) will put forward a motion at tonight’s meeting of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co Council Transport Area Committee calling on the Manager to re-instate a single pay parking zone for Dun Laoghaire town and its residents. ![]()
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Prior to the general election local residents and the People Before Profit Alliance organised protests opposing the removal of the 46a from Monkstown Farm and cuts to the other bus services in the area. |
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Last night Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council voted unanimously to call on the government to safeguard the future of publicly owned forests. Cllr Halpin was co-opted onto the council last night to replace Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett who was recently elected to the Dail. The meeting was Cllr. Halpin’s first representing the people of Dun Laoghaire and speaking to the motion, she expressed concern that the EU/IMF deal could see the sale of state assets such as Coillte and noted that Fine Gael were committed to the privatisation of many state assets. “We, in People Before Profit, are completely and utterly opposed to the sell off of our forests. Here in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, forests occupy 2500 hectares and are an invaluable asset to the people of the county. It is utterly unthinkable that the forests of Ireland would be sold off for the sake of short term financial gain.” “Privatising our state assets is no way of dealing with the economic crisis. It will lead to job losses and wage reduction which will in turn lead to further job losses. Coillte is still a profitable company that pays a dividend to the state”. “While the EU/IMF deal only talks of the ‘possible privatisation of state owned assets’, we have seen in Greece that a recent EU/IMF progress report on their bail out has called for a ‘scaling up of the privatisation’. With Fine Gael in government all state owned companies are under threat of privatisation. |
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