Christmas

5,000 children spent Christmas in emergency accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett: it’s Government’s ‘eternal shame’ that more than 5,000 children were in emergency accommodation. Warns Residential Tenancies Bill will ‘turbo charge’ rent increases. Calls for meaningful rent controls and ‘transformational’ state construction company to end housing crisis.

Support the Belfast Diageo Workers' Strike

"...an 8-day strike that will last until December 29th. The Belfast plant is the world's biggest producer of Guinness Zero and representatives from Unite the Union who are leading the strike have stated that this may lead to a shortage of Guinness Zero this Christmas, and rightly so."

In Need Of A Cost Of Living Payment For Disabled People

"These are the people that the Government has made poorer, not just a little bit poorer, but a lot poorer. Disabled people are €1,400 worse off as a consequence of the last budget... Do not make disabled people poorer next year." - Paul Murphy TD