Join the Cost of Living Protest at the Dail on May 19th at 1pm.
Freeze Prices Not The People Electricity, gas and mortgages will see another round of huge price rises. SSE Airtricity has increased electricity prices by 24%
Freeze Prices Not The People Electricity, gas and mortgages will see another round of huge price rises. SSE Airtricity has increased electricity prices by 24%
People have rejected the power of the Catholic Church on two occasions – on Repeal and Marriage Equality. But the Bishops retain institutional power, controlling
The Cost of Living Coalition is calling on the public to turn out in huge numbers on September 24th to send a clear message to
As Cost of Living Crisis Deepens Public Urged to Send Strong Message to the Government March to Assemble at Parnell Square at 2.30 on the
A Brazilian-Portuguese family in Donegal has been evicted in brutal circumstances. There was no court order – heavies just threw the tenants out. This is
On two occasions, the Dáil has voted to end the eviction ban. Landlords make up just 3% of the Irish population but 80 TDs are
Freeze Prices Not The People Electricity, gas and mortgages will see another round of huge price rises. SSE Airtricity has increased electricity prices by 24%
People have rejected the power of the Catholic Church on two occasions – on Repeal and Marriage Equality. But the Bishops retain institutional power, controlling
The Cost of Living Coalition is calling on the public to turn out in huge numbers on September 24th to send a clear message to
As Cost of Living Crisis Deepens Public Urged to Send Strong Message to the Government March to Assemble at Parnell Square at 2.30 on the
A Brazilian-Portuguese family in Donegal has been evicted in brutal circumstances. There was no court order – heavies just threw the tenants out. This is
On two occasions, the Dáil has voted to end the eviction ban. Landlords make up just 3% of the Irish population but 80 TDs are
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People Before Profit commit to use Apple Tax to Establish State Construction Company
The People Before Profit National Spokesperson, Richard Boyd Barrett TD said “The housing crisis in Ireland continues and will not be solved by repeating the same failed private market-based policies and actions that successive FF and FG governments have pursued.
We need tens of thousands of social and affordable homes built each year to cater for the many paying extortionate rents or stuck on housing lists year after year. The private building industry cannot build on the scale required. The two biggest building companies, Glenveagh and Cairns, only employ 300 people directly and build less than 2,500 homes a year. If more homes are built, prices fall and profits drop. So private builders have no incentive to build more homes and instead engage in excessive focus on office and hotel developments, or other developments that are more profitable for them than building homes.
The recent Housing Commission report recognised that ‘exceptional and radical measures to deliver a substantial amount of housing in the shortest time practicable’ are required. The establishment of a state construction company is one such exceptional and radical measure.
Only a new state construction company can achieve the size required to deliver the massive expansion of house building, retrofitting of older houses, and refurbishment of vacant homes we need. Funded with the Apple tax revenues, such a body can easily access the land, finance and labour that are needed at scale to directly build at least 35,000 social and affordable homes per year – homes that are urgently needed.
A state construction company will also be able to build homes at a much lower cost than the private sector by cutting out land acquisition costs, profit margin, VAT and reducing sales and marketing and finance costs. In total it is estimated that close to €200,000 can be eliminated from the cost of building a 3-bedroom home.”
Deputy Paul Murphy said “A state construction company will also allow us to address environmental impacts and carbon emissions through improved design standards. Traditional construction methods are a major source of carbon emissions and the state needs to be in a position to address that speedily and at scale.
The state construction company will have an urgent task to improve the pay and working conditions in the sector and it will need to dramatically increase the number of apprentices in the construction trade through highly proactive recruitment. Thousands have dropped out of their apprenticeships over the last three years due to extremely low pay in the first two years of apprenticeships. Their pay needs to be increased immediately to stem the flow out of apprenticeships and to enable rapid recruitment of large numbers of apprentices.
If the failed private market-based policies of successive governments continue, then so will the housing crisis. People Before Profit will not accept this. We are committed to establishing and rapidly ramping up a state construction company to clear the waiting lists and to end the scandal of homelessness”.
FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER, 6.15PM, GUILDHALL SQUARE, DERRY People Before Profit representative Maeve O’Neill said, “People Before Profit fully support the rally taking place in Derry
Carlow/Kilkenny candidate Cllr Wallace says time to end 100 years of FF/FG People Before Profit-Solidarity candidate Cllr Adrienne Wallace for Carlow/Kilkenny said “This week People
People Before Profit has expressed deep concern over new figures showing that 82% of rented properties in South Dublin failed to meet minimum legal standards
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