War is a racket.
This government refused to take meaningful actions for the last 5 years to stop the price gouging and profiteering from private companies, and it seems they're not planning to start now.
We should have price controls for essentials like energy and heating. We can already see the price gouging as a result of the US-Israel war in the middle east.
We have to stop this greedflation.
The government plans to pass their 'rip-off rent bill' today, called the 'Residential Tenancies Bill'.
The purpose of the bill is to make rents even higher, in order to "attract investment".
Another landlord bill from a landlord government.
Join the protest against this bill outside the Dáil today at 5.30pm.
We can't wait until the next general election....
By then, we're on track to have well over 20,000 people in emergency accommodation.
We have to get organised NOW against this government on the housing crisis!
We need to reinstate the eviction ban, use the tens of thousands of vacant properties, and build social and affordable housing en-masse!
The Irish government are blatantly going to make us liable for fines as high as €28 billion.
We know it'll be ordinary people that are made foot the bill.
Meanwhile, Big Tech continues to use more and more of our energy, while household energy bills continue to balloon!
"Don't continue to be Scrooge!"
Now Paschal Donohoe has left for his cushy €600k job, we've got Simon Harris as Minister for Finance, intent on continuing Fine Gael's miserly legacy.
Protest with disability organisations outside the Dáil Tuesday at 12.30.
Yes or no?
This government is making everyone poorer this Christmas, but disabled people are facing the sharpest end of this.
This government makes political choices to benefit the ultra-rich, while ordinary people are feeling the pinch.
We need an emergency winter payment.
Scrooge Harris and this government are not going to do that unless they're forced to.
So many are faced with choice of heating or eating this winter.
Govt is currently planning to vote down a Bill for rented properties to have minimum BER standards by 2030.
They put landlords before renters and climate.
#CostOfGreed #CostOfLivingCrisis
https://www.independent.ie/business/money/home-heating-oil-prices-shoot-up-just-as-cold-snap-hits-the-country/a132950319.html
While families go hungry, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and their Lowry / Healy-Rae lackies are funneling even more money into the hands of landlords and private developers.
While the government has a record €25Billion surplus, they're implementing austerity policies for ordinary people.
We need price controls on essential goods. To end the greedflation in the energy sector it needs to be brought back into public control - we need to renationalise it.
The government is removing any pretense they're 'protecting ordinary people'. Now the election is over, they're bringing back blatant austerity.
This is while the government has a record €25 Billion surplus.
While making families go hungry, they're funneling more & more money into the hands of landlords / private developers.
Paul Murphy TD