Very glad to see this scrapped. Well done to the #ScrapTheGreenPaper campaign and everyone who pushed back.

At the FG Ard Fheis, the Taoiseach announced a Dublin City taskforce, something Gary Gannon TD has repeatedly called for

But nobody else in govt seems to know anything about it

Dublin needs more than platitudes and vague commitments

It needs a definitive plan - and resources

As a Former Chief Commissioner for Human Rights, I welcome the ECHR decision recognising that Climate Change IS a human rights issue.
Read more about the Social Democrats stance here x.com/socdems/status…

and kindness in response, not overpriced private solutions, political leaders talking outside both sides of their mouth, and pitting vulnerable groups against each other.
We're witnessing a decades-long embarrassment, a weak political response to a complex problem. 3/4

choice. It is a sinister (and failed) attempt to deter people from coming to Ireland, using vulnerable humans as political pawns to mask an ongoing failure.
War, genocide, famine, climate crisis - these are the drivers for current global movement. People deserve humanity...2/4

Another storm, another weekend of bussing homeless asylum seekers out of a city encampment to a marginally better solution a little further away. This, and other failures of the government's decades long omnishambles response to international protection, is a political...1/4

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A couple of highlights from the first hustings today. Thank you, UCD Politics & International Relations Society for hosting this great introduction to the #EUelections2024 .

Nearly 4 years in
On to the 3rdTaoiseach
An extra 5,142 people are now homeless
A calamitous failure from this Gov with devasting consequences.

Works have begun on the Liffey Cycle Route, this is a multi-phase #ActiveTravelNetwork project at the heart of Dublin City Centre. Click here to find out more: dublincity.ie/residential/tr…

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories, said she believed the “threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide . . . has been met” and called for an arms embargo on Israel.
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(1) It can take years for the Council to take responsibility for public spaces in newer housing developments.

This can cause serious problems when it comes to the maintenance of roads, paths, public lighting and open spaces.

The Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act 1989 has been on the statute books for 35 years without a definition of hatred. This Bill just updates that old Act. The outrage is manufactured and too many TDs are falling for it.

Throwing a brick with “faggots out” written on it through the window of Pantibar with customers inside should be a hate crime. Scrawling “pedobar” on its walls should be a hate crime. Attacking LGBTI+ people in the street screaming slurs should be a hate crime. Burning…

'Offering asylum seekers basic accommodation is not optional,' says Jennifer Whitmore TD

'It is not some gift the Govt can decide to withhold.

'It is the law.'

I first met Sinéad Gibney when we were studying together for an equality studies masters. Then and now her commitment to equality, inclusion and dignity for all is unparalleled.
I’m thrilled to welcome her home to the Social Democrats & delighted to see her put herself forward for Europe

I love this city and I’m passionate about making it an equal city, where decent housing, decent work and a decent society is within the reach of all, not the very few. That’s why I am running for Europe, in Dublin. Find out more on sineadgibney.ie #sineadforeurope

The writing is on the wall for this government, even the Taoiseach can see that.

They’re failing on so many fronts. In housing, health, climate - the list goes on and on and on.

A new Fine Gael Taoiseach isn’t going to fix that. We need a new government. We need an election.

It's not a 'fairytale' to want to be able to own your own home.

It's not a 'fairytale' to have access to disability services.

A leadership change in Fine Gael isn't going to solve Ireland's problems.

It's time for change.

It's time to call a general election.

“Government needs to stop funding the greyhound industry and redirect funding to animal welfare programmes” - #LE24 local elections candidate Catherine Stocker Catherine Stocker (@SocDems) 👍👍 banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/dub… #Dublin #Clontarf Please support compassionate candidates