Gerry Carroll

Carroll Slams Special School Summer Scheme Fiasco

Carroll Slams Special School Summer Scheme Fiasco

U-turn on special school summer schemes threat... but this fiasco should never have happened.

28 Mar 2026

Gerry Carroll protest as Stormont blocks boy from playing with other children.

5,500 Children with Special Needs Abandoned by a Dysfunctional Executive

Carroll: “I’m calling on families and education workers to come together and make clear that this decision will not stand. If ministers won't act, people will take to the streets and force them to.”

27 Mar 2026

Gerry Carroll

Gerry Carroll’s People's Housing Bill: the Tenant Protections Stormont Refuses to Deliver

"Rents in Belfast have risen by more than 50% over the past five years. Private tenants are increasingly expected to pay eyewatering sums for homes that are cramped, in a poor state of disrepair or riddled with mould." We need this passed now.

24 Mar 2026

Toothless Voluntary Contributions Scheme Lets Developers Off the Hook

Toothless Voluntary Contributions Scheme Lets Developers Off the Hook

Gerry Carroll: " the Finance Minister has decided upon a toothless voluntary developer contributions scheme. The few developers who choose to make a minimal voluntary contribution will bask in the glow of good PR, while our public infrastructure continues to collapse."

19 Mar 2026

MLA Pay Hike a Slap in the Face of Struggling Families

MLA Pay Hike a Slap in the Face of Struggling Families

The 27% pay hike wasn't inevitable but it was unjustifiable

13 Mar 2026

Gerry Carroll pictured in front of Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre

Carroll Submits Amendment to Justice Bill: 10 is Too Young

Gerry Carroll's amendment calls for the minimum age of criminal responsibility to be increased from 10 to 16, with no exceptions.

26 Feb 2026

Gerry Carroll in West Belfast

Carroll Passes Motion on Damp and Mould - Hits Out at Shameless Pay Hike

Action on damp and mould: motion brought by Gerry Carroll passed at Stormont this week. / Stormont's newly-established 'Independent' Remuneration Board has recommended an extortionate £14,000 pay rise for MLAs. Carroll says backlash is justified, not pay hike.

26 Feb 2026

First Minister Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill and People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll.

People Before Profit Rejects Status Quo Budget from Sinn Féin

With "unconscionable" rates hikes, Gerry Carroll says, "Sinn Fein’s Finance Minister conveniently fails to acknowledge that the Executive - including his own party - is acting as a handmaiden for British austerity. Executive parties are implementing punitive cuts by choice, not necessity."

9 Jan 2026

Gerry Carroll MLA in front of composite image of Stormont and Westminster

Labour Budget Protects the Wealthy while Working Class Communities Pay the Price

Carroll: "Tinkering around the edges of reform can never undo the damage caused by more than a decade of austerity. The growing desire for a radical left alternative must be capitalised upon as soon as possible, to take the fight to both Starmer and Farage."

28 Nov 2025