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Wilson responds to Budget
DUP East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson says the Budget offers too little tax relief, criticising the 5p fuel cut extension and fuel duty freeze given diesel prices, and the lack of action on farming family tax and defence spending.
Public finance and taxation Economy and employment Issue: Budget announcement Original release: Wilson responds to Budget (opens in a new tab)
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Swann responds to Budget
UUP MP Robin Swann welcomes £7.5 million for cyber and AI research in Belfast and £1 million for a Northern Ireland Investment Summit, but says the Budget's £270 million Barnett consequentials are spread over four years and fall short. He calls for clarity on whether they will be allocated this…
Public finance and taxation Economy and employment Issue: Budget announcement Original release: Swann responds to Budget (opens in a new tab)
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Green Party welcomes permanent closure of Drumbo Park greyhound track
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Binning Derry Air Dome Sports Facility is Premature and Reckless
People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin calls the scrapping of the Ulster University Air Dome sports facility in Derry premature and reckless. He urges Economy Minister intervention and Executive support to deliver Magee expansion projects, and calls for accountability from the university and…
Education Economy and employment Original release: Binning Derry Air Dome Sports Facility is Premature and Reckless (opens in a new tab)
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Fuel Protests In The North
People Before Profit says today's fuel protests across the North have a right core demand for urgent action on fuel prices, blaming the Executive for years of rising costs and calling for price caps, windfall taxes on energy firms and a £500 energy credit for households.
Economy and employment Public finance and taxation Original release: Fuel Protests In The North (opens in a new tab)
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People Before Profit Support The Translink Strikers
People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin backs Translink workers on strike and their escalated industrial action, condemning a 0 per cent pay offer and saying promises from the Secretary of State, the DUP and a restored Stormont Executive count for nothing.
Economy and employment Infrastructure and transport Issue: Translink industrial action escalation Original release: People Before Profit Support The Translink Strikers (opens in a new tab)
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Public Sector Strike 18 Jan 2024
People Before Profit expresses solidarity with public sector workers striking on 18 January and calls for fair pay to be a red line for a restored Stormont. It urges escalating trade union action if Stormont returns without guarantees on workers' demands.
Economy and employment Public finance and taxation Issue: Public sector strike action on 18 January 2024 Original release: Public Sector Strike 18 Jan 2024 (opens in a new tab)
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Teacher Strikes Across The North
People Before Profit commends teachers for striking over pay and school funding, calls for coordinated strikes across public and private sectors, and blames Tory budget cuts and Stormont's pay decisions for the dispute.
Education Economy and employment Issue: Teacher strike action across Northern Ireland, November 2023 Original release: Teacher Strikes Across The North (opens in a new tab)
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People Before Profit Statement On The Coronation
People Before Profit calls the coronation an insult to struggling workers, citing the reported £250 million cost, food bank use and austerity, and criticises the monarchy's wealth and colonial links. It also condemns Sinn Féin's decision to attend the ceremony as accommodation to sectarianism.
Constitutional affairs Economy and employment Issue: King Charles III coronation attendance and cost criticism Original release: People Before Profit Statement On The Coronation (opens in a new tab)
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Strike Wave Rallies Throughout The North
People Before Profit reports teachers, health workers and Housing Executive staff striking across the North, with seven rallies over wages and public services. It urges NIPSA to call a general strike and cites a €32 million uncollected tax gap and a windfall tax on energy firms as funding options.
Economy and employment Education Issue: February 2023 public sector strike wave and rallies across the North Original release: Strike Wave Rallies Throughout The North (opens in a new tab)
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Statement On Boris Johnson’s Resignation
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll calls for a general election after reports Boris Johnson is set to step down, arguing that the Tory contenders to replace him are unfit to govern and that the whole government should be removed.
Other Issue: Boris Johnson resignation announcement July 2022 Original release: Statement On Boris Johnson’s Resignation (opens in a new tab)
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Executive crisis plunges public services into financial uncertainty - Bailey
Green Party NI Leader Clare Bailey MLA says the Executive's collapse means the planned three-year budget will not proceed, leaving public services without long-term financial certainty and £300m of extra funding unallocated. She calls for politicians to focus on financial stability and poverty.
Public finance and taxation Health Original release: Executive crisis plunges public services into financial uncertainty - Bailey (opens in a new tab)
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Green Party Leader welcomes Irish government funding commitment
Green Party leader Mal O'Hara welcomes Irish government Shared Island funding, including £50m... no, €50 million for Casement Park redevelopment, €12.5 million for an hourly Belfast-Dublin rail service and €600 million for the A5 North-West corridor, saying it will boost local economies and…
Infrastructure and transport Public finance and taxation Original release: Green Party Leader welcomes Irish government funding commitment (opens in a new tab)
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Green Party NI Leader Senator Mal O’Hara responds to Budget 2025
Green Party NI Leader Senator Mal O'Hara says the UK Budget is only a small step forward, welcoming the unpausing of Northern Ireland growth deals and a £1.5bn increase for the Northern Ireland Executive. He criticises the budget's lack of ambition and calls for a strong wealth tax instead of…
Public finance and taxation Economy and employment Original release: Green Party NI Leader Senator Mal O’Hara responds to Budget 2025 (opens in a new tab)
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Bangor West Councillor welcomes announcement that the Promote Learning Disability Service has been saved from closure
Green Party Bangor West councillor Cllr McKee welcomes the signing of a contract for charity Orchardville to take over the Promote Day Opportunities Service in Bangor, saving it from closure. She criticises the South Eastern Trust's handling and calls for a return of the Stormont Executive to…
Health Disability and equality Original release: Bangor West Councillor welcomes announcement that the Promote Learning Disability Service has been saved from closure (opens in a new tab)
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Green Party welcomes Audit Office intervention in fuel poverty hardship fund
Social security and welfare Local government Original release: Green Party welcomes Audit Office intervention in fuel poverty hardship fund (opens in a new tab)
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Ofcom to consider Green Party NI complaint
Other Original release: Ofcom to consider Green Party NI complaint (opens in a new tab)
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Greens will continue to make our case
Green Party NI Leader Clare Bailey responds to Ofcom's decision not to uphold the Green Party's complaint about BBC coverage of the 2022 Assembly election, saying broadcasters must stay impartial. She says the party will keep making its case and criticises UTV for refusing to match the BBC's…
Other Original release: Greens will continue to make our case (opens in a new tab)
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Summer Food Payment Clarity Welcomed
Green Party councillor Brian Smyth welcomes the Education Minister's announcement of a £12.6million summer school holiday food grant, giving £13.50 weekly per entitled child, and calls for long-term action on child poverty.
Social security and welfare Economy and employment Original release: Summer Food Payment Clarity Welcomed (opens in a new tab)
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Cllr Simon Lee resigns
A Green Party spokesperson says Cllr Simon Lee, elected for Castlereagh South in 2019, has quit the party on 3 August, adding he did not speak to it beforehand and has moved to another party. The Greens thank him for his work.
Other Local government Original release: Cllr Simon Lee resigns (opens in a new tab)