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Gerry Carroll’s People's Housing Bill: the Tenant Protections Stormont Refuses to Deliver
People Before Profit's Gerry Carroll says Belfast rents have jumped over 50% in five years, leaving tenants vulnerable to evictions and disrepair. He announces a private members People’s Housing Bill to cut rents and ban no‑fault evictions, calling for urgent action on the housing crisis.
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People's Housing Bill Consultation
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll introduces the People's Housing Bill, aiming to ease the North’s housing crisis affecting nearly 48,000 households. The plan would cap rents, convert vacant homes into dwellings, set up a Rental Board, tighten landlord duties and enforce basic housing standards
Housing Issue: People's Housing Bill proposal Original release: People's Housing Bill Consultation (opens in a new tab)
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Gerry Carroll MLA Launches Public Consultation On The ‘People’s Housing Bill’
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll launches a public consultation on his People's Housing Bill, a private members bill proposing rent limits, an end to no-cause evictions, five-year minimum tenancies, a Rental Board and powers to bring 22,000 empty homes into social use. The consultation…
Housing Issue: Gerry Carroll People's Housing Bill public consultation launch Original release: Gerry Carroll MLA Launches Public Consultation On The ‘People’s Housing Bill’ (opens in a new tab)
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No Congestion Charges – Free Public Transport
People Before Profit opposes congestion charges, which it says would create class barriers to city centres, and calls for free, frequent public transport in urban centres instead. It responds to a proposal by Green Party leader Eamon Ryan that councils prepare traffic plans by 2026 and consider…
Infrastructure and transport Environment and climate Issue: Eamon Ryan congestion charges proposal Original release: No Congestion Charges – Free Public Transport (opens in a new tab)
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Housing Executive Surplus Can Fund Workers’ Pay Rise – Gerry Carroll MLA
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll says a Housing Executive surplus of around £300m should pay for a pay rise for striking maintenance workers. He also calls for accountability over the unspent cash and urgent action to direct it to repairs.
Housing Economy and employment Issue: Housing Executive £300m surplus Original release: Housing Executive Surplus Can Fund Workers’ Pay Rise – Gerry Carroll MLA (opens in a new tab)
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Transport
The Green Party sets out its transport platform, calling for an interconnected public transport network serving rural areas and disabled people. It pledges electric and hydrogen buses, rail electrification, extended free travel for under-22s, zero-emission new cars and vans by 2032, and a 20mph…
Infrastructure and transport Environment and climate Original release: Transport (opens in a new tab)
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It's Time.
The Green Party NI sets out its platform, pledging to oppose health service cuts, end academic selection, deliver a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights, introduce rent controls and a living wage, and ban fossil fuel extraction. It also commits to expanding public transport and establishing an…
Disability and equality Environment and climate Original release: It's Time. (opens in a new tab)
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Climate and Environment
The Green Party NI says climate breakdown is an ongoing crisis and points to Northern Ireland's record on biodiversity, water quality and air pollution. It sets out policies including an independent Environmental Protection Agency, a peat extraction ban, a glyphosate herbicide ban and 2,500…
Environment and climate Original release: Climate and Environment (opens in a new tab)
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Jobs and Workers
Green Party Northern Ireland calls for a just transition that includes a living wage, reinstating the Universal Credit uplift, a four‑day week for public workers, a basic income pilot for care leavers, ending cliff‑edge welfare reforms, lifting the ban on asylum‑seeker work, banning fire‑and‑rehire
Economy and employment Social security and welfare Original release: Jobs and Workers (opens in a new tab)
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Housing
The Green Party NI says housing is a human right and calls for an urgent house-building programme, rent caps, and better standards for private rentals. It sets out commitments including rent controls, 2,500 energy-efficient social homes a year, and retrofitting of housing stock.
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Energy
The Green Party calls for a rapid shift away from fossil fuels towards renewable electricity, with more financial help for households in fuel poverty. It also pledges to halt fossil fuel exploration licences and extraction, end expansion of the gas grid, and back community-owned renewable schemes.
Environment and climate Economy and employment Original release: Energy (opens in a new tab)
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Food and Farming
The Green Party NI sets out its food and farming policy, saying farms can help reach net-zero while improving water and soil, reducing flood risk and restoring nature. It pledges to phase out factory farming, favour local food economies, reward small farmers and public goods, and ban routine…
Agriculture and rural affairs Environment and climate Original release: Food and Farming (opens in a new tab)
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Greens join calls for a Wealth Tax in the UK
Green Party NI leader Mal O'Hara calls for a UK-wide Wealth Tax on household wealth above £3.4 million, alongside a windfall tax on big energy companies, saying together they would raise at least £75 billion a year for public services, social housing and the climate transition.
Public finance and taxation Economy and employment Original release: Greens join calls for a Wealth Tax in the UK (opens in a new tab)
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Greens announce basic income policy
Green Party NI candidate Brian Smyth, for East Belfast, announces a costed basic income policy giving young people leaving care £1,000 a month for one year, funded by ending rates tax breaks on houses valued over £400,000. The party says the scheme would cost up to £3.6m a year if 300 care leavers…
Social security and welfare Public finance and taxation Original release: Greens announce basic income policy (opens in a new tab)
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Manifesto
The Green Party NI sets out its manifesto, pledging to oppose health cuts, end academic selection, introduce rent controls, ban fossil fuel extraction, and move public sector staff to a shorter working week, among other measures.
Environment and climate Education Original release: Manifesto (opens in a new tab)