FEES WILL HURT WORKING FAMILIES NOT THE SUPER-RICH

In a statement the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) has said it will participate in today’s national student demonstration against government plans to re-introduce student fees.

PBPA  rejected as “cynical; and “dishonest” government propaganda on the issue of fees and said that proposals to double third level registration fees or at some point to fully re-introduce student tuition fees will hurt working families not the super-rich.

PBPA said that the way to deal with unjustifiable subsidies to the super-wealthy was to dramatically increase income tax for those earning in excess of €100,000 and impose other wealth taxes, rather than introduce fees which would only hurt working families whose incomes were marginally over the thresholds to qualify for third level grants.

PBPA said education was a right not a privilige and that students were showing the way in taking to the streets against the government’s unjust and suicidal economic policies.    

Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance said: “Today’s protest is a vitally important. If the government gets away with doubling the registration fees or fully reintroducing tuition fees, it will once again be hard-working families that will pay the price not the super-wealthy as they falsely claim.