Motions

Whereas the past two years have seen the imposition of aggressive regimes of fiscal consolidation in Northern Ireland and the Republic, this conference considers that the human cost of austerity is unsustainable. Through no fault of their own thousands of...

Conference calls on those in authority, in both jurisdictions and at EU level, to accept the complete failure of the austerity recipe as a response to the economic challenge. This has been spectacularly demonstrated through the experience in the Republic of...

Conference rejects the prevailing orthodoxy promoted by both the UK and Irish Governments that the cause of the financial and economic crises is excessive expenditure on public services and welfare benefits. Conference refutes any suggestion that ordinary...

Conference rejects the austerity measures imposed by Governments on working people in both parts of the island to pay for a debt that workers did not create. Conference also rejects claims that 'we are all in this together' as working people did not cause the...

This Conference unreservedly condemns the disastrous consequences of the previous Fianna Fail/Green Party coalition Government's fiscal austerity and failed banking policies. Conference also condemns the economic privations being visited on Northern Ireland by...

Congress regards the current economic and financial crisis as one which arises from the nature of our economic and social system. The concentration of economic power in the hands of giant financial and industrial monopolies, which use that power to influence...

That this Conference regrets that the policies being pursued by the Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government so far are broadly similar to those of the previous Government, particularly with regard to economic matters. This Conference therefore calls on the...

That, in light of the ongoing austerity measures still to be inflicted on working men and women and their families, the Waterford Council of Trade Unions are calling on the ICTU to demand that the people be given the right to decide on the issue of the bank...

This Conference supports the retention of the 12.5% rate for Corporation Tax as it is seen as a driver for economic recovery by attracting Foreign Direct Investment.

Noting that the Programme for Government contains a provision to introduce a Site Valuation Tax for non-agricultural land, this conference calls for the immediate introduction of a Land Value Tax as a small first step towards curbing speculation in the future...