This afternoon.
Ballyfermot Road, Chapelizod, Dublin 10.
Solidarity/People Before Profit launch their housing policy for General Election 2020 outside the De La Salle school site with middle pic above from left: Solidarity PBP candidate for Dublin North West Conor Reddy, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Brid Smith TD and councillors Hazel De Nortuin and Tina McVeigh.
Promises include:
Increase the supply of social and affordable housing through an extra €2.3 billion in Budget 2019;
Increase the contribution of private builders from 10-20% of their developments – and 30% in strategic areas;
Make it illegal to evict people into homelessness and;
Hold a referendum to enshrine the right to housing in the constitution.
Housing Policy (Solidarity People Before Profit)
Meanwhile..
In our 3rd episode of Face to Face, Caitlin Grant interviews @RBoydBarrett representing @solidarityie and @pb4p about the topics that are important to young people in Ireland #WhyImVoting #GE2020 #GE20 pic.twitter.com/nqj28ofcK6
— SpunOut.ie (@SpunOut) February 4, 2020
A forest of magic money trees will have to be planted to find this kind of cash to support the lifestyle of the welfare class. Hopefully the surge for SF will mean most of this lot will be back in the county councils were they belong.
No, that won’t be necessary. Plan is to make major corporations actually pay tax.
Oh please- said corporations can move their operations to another country for tax purposes and we end up with less tax.
instead of paying zero, they’ll be paying almost zero. not sure where they’d get a better deal than that.
and where would they go anyway? the other English-speaking state in the EU
stop parroting the party line and think it through for yourself
The English speaking thing does not matter. Never did.Utterly irrelevant
Last year the corporation tax was €10bn.
€5bn came from 10 companies.
love all the scared FG types talking about how there’s no money to do anything in Ireland while simultaneously promising a tax cut bonanza
https://twitter.com/colettebrowne/status/1224990544251826178
See the thing is the “FG types ” are the types are are NET contributors to the public finances so our taxes help pay for free houses for the “PBP types” who never need to worry about things like health insurance or not being housed somewhere close to their mammy.
see, you’re wrong. socialists do work you know.
tell us more about these “free houses”, christopher
sounds great
I’ve voting for him. SCT rugby isn’t the only brilliant thing to come out of Saint Michael’s College, Dublin 4.
“Make it illegal to evict people into homelessness”
Super plan for anyone who would rather not pay their rent ever again.
see that sounds like your Us and Them side dominating your thinking Repro and it won’t end well
you know that pension we’re all banging on about? what do you within reason expect to happen to the 3,800 odd children who are homeless at the moment when they grow up, hm? will they add to the pension pot much you reckon? or don’t they count?
sure they’ll probably be grand anyways, pull themselves up by their bootstraps, smash that Leaving and college and get up early. and sure if it all goes wrong it’s their mam and dads fault for not having enough money to put a stable roof over their heads, isn’t it?
I don’t want that Ireland, thanks. I’m voting to break it. Hoping to succeed too.
Repro, this could work.
If someone has been through the PRTB resolution process or been assessed as homeless by the council then fair enough. You can be refused homeless placement for making yourself homeless through breach of tenancy.
you cannot evict in the winter months in France, works quiet well, you must also give adequate notice, 3 months and if you are in that rental over three years well then the reasons must fit criteria,
and a huge percentage of people rent in France a s opposed to EVER owning a home,
All property is theft. I actually believe that. Start at that point: you can believe we were once happy apes who had equality. Or, the alpha ape has always called the shots. Either way there is clearly humans of different abilities on this planet. That’s just an overt fact of life. So what to do: if RBB, and socialists in general said: I believe in a meritocracy but also believe we have a responsibility to care for the less able.. well, try as people might, it’s very hard to argue. However, if RBB says, you’re doing really well and much better than me, that’s unfair and I insist that I punish you for that.. well.. he, and all of the soft left have fallen into the trap. That’s why I call him, Murphy, Ryan absolute idiots. Teenage bedroom ranters who loves the sound of their own voice.
“that’s unfair and I insist that I punish you for that”
except you just pulled that out of your botty; it’s not what RBB or Murphy or any socialist says
What makes you think any of them are socialists..? And it is exactly what they mean. That’s why they get a personal vote and have never managed to grow a political party that could actually amount to anything more than a couple of hurlers in the ditch.
what makes me think it is a personal relationship with one of them going back 15 years. I know him well. and know what he is and what he isn’t. and he isn’t the fraud you’re suggesting he is.