politcal news from Cork, Ireland
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry has slammed the decision by Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton to cut the budget for Exceptional Needs Payments and claimed that the Minister’s decision would “drive hundreds if not thousands of families straight into the arms of unscrupulous moneylenders”.
“Many parents of children making the Communion or Confirmation in the weeks ahead will be very hard hit by this cruel decision.
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry this morning added his voice to the growing calls for a referendum on the new European fiscal treaty finalised last night.
Cllr Barry said that the new treaty is an “austerity treaty” which would bind governments to austerity policies for a decade or more.
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry has called on the people of Cork to support staff at the CCTU Employment Resource Centre in the North Main Street who yesterday took control of the building and defied attempts to have the unemployment centre shut down.
He said, “It is absolutely crazy to be shutting down a centre for unemployed people at a time when there are more people unemployed than at any other time in the history of the State.
“This is the only centre of its kind in either Cork city or county, an area with more than 50,000 people out of work.
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry this morning slammed Government threats to deduct fines for non-payment of the household tax from wage packets and social welfare payments and argued that the deductions threat could be defeated by mass non-payment of the tax.
He said, “The Government have used kid gloves in their dealing with the bankers and developers who have bankrupted the country yet are now preparing to use an iron fist against ordinary people planning to make a stand against an unjust tax.
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry this morning claimed that the new household tax will start off at €100 euro and rise to more than €1,000 within two years.
“The Government are launching the household tax at a rate of 100 euro a year but make no mistake this tax will rise to 1000 year plus within a couple of years if people pay and the Government get their foot in the door.”
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry has said that the Cork City Manager and “top brass” in City Hall should “back off” in their threats to remove the Occupy Cork camp in the South Mall.
Cllr Barry said that the Occupy Cork camp had the support of “thousands of ordinary people in Cork city and beyond who are horrified at the bank bailouts and stated his opinion that there would be massive opposition among the general public to the City Hall threats.”
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry this morning said that the Government’s plans to hand over €715 million for unsecured, unguaranteed Anglo Irish Bank bonds represents a betrayal of ordinary Irish taxpayers.
“The Government plan to slash health, education and social welfare spending in the Budget yet are prepared to pay off unguaranteed and unsecured Anglo bonds in full.
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party city councillor Mick Barry has called for a no vote in Thursday’s Dáil Inquiries Referendum (30th Amendment to the Constitution) which aims to expand the powers of the Oireachtas to conduct inquiries into matters of public importance.
Cllr Barry said that the amendment does not so much give extra power to parliamentarians per se but rather to the Government of the day and stated his belief that such an extra power for government could be open to abuse.
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