On 17 April the People Before Profit Alliance organised a protest against the government’s budget measures outside the constituency office of Chris Andrews TD (Fianna Fail). The protest took place on Sandford Road, Ranelagh and was attended by fifteen people holding placards reading ‘Honk if you oppose the budget’ and ‘Tax the Greedy, Not the Needy’. It drew support from passing motorists, who sounded their horns in support.
In a statement Bryce Evans, People Before Profit candidate for the Pembroke-Rathmines ward, said ‘The budget is unfair because once again ordinary working people are being asked to carry the can for a mess they disn’t create. Where’s the justice in a budget that lets 6,000 tax exiles off scot-free but doubles the levy on low and middle income people? Every Fianna Fail representative who supported the busget cuts – whether at national or local level – must be made to recognise their own accountability for these savage cuts’.
