The Revenue Commissioners are claiming a 90 percent compliance rate on the property tax and government ministers are suggesting that it will raise more than the projected €500 million a year. The boycott that was urged by the Campaign against Household and Water Taxes campaign clearly, did not take off.
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In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for the People Before Profit Alliance, has described the government’s announcement that it is abandoning its plan to sell-off the harvesting rights of Ireland’s publically owned forests as a “stunning victory for people power and public protest.”
THE SHADOWY and secretive National Security Agency (NSA) has been exposed to the light of day by revelations that show the vast extent of U.S. government spying, at home and around the globe.
The heads of bill of the new abortion legislation published by the Government is a pathetic attempt to deal with the X-case ruling from 1992. Pro-choice campaigners have fought for 20 years to get consecutive Irish governments to legislate, and it took the death of Savita Hallappanavar for them to start the process.
The Fine Gael-Labour government want to sell off our forests. They will do so unless there is huge public pressure to stop them.
Sunday 9 June has been named as a day of national action where thousands will walk in the forests to show our opposition to privatisation.
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In The Unions
After 3 days on strike the workers at SDD Shanganagh Water Treatment plant have had their demands met by management. The plant was formerly a Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council operation treating water for domestic purposes for 248,000 people in South Dublin and Wicklow but now is ran for profit by a joint venture between an Irish construction company and two Spanish companies.
In a statement today, the strikers at Shanganagh Waste Water Treatment Plant, announced that 2 workers have passed their picket line to carry out work at the plant.
The workers who passed the picket line this morning are believed to have been flown in from Spain by the Spanish section of the Management.
SIPTU members at Shanganagh Waste Water Treatment Plant, Co. Dublin, began strike action today (Tuesday, 21st May) at 6.30 a.m. in response to their employer’s failure to refer a dispute relating to pay and shift premium payments to the Labour Court.
The facility treats water for domestic and commercial purposes for 248,000 people living in Dublin and Wicklow.
