Sinn Féin launches detailed and comprehensive Housing Plan.

Sinn Féin launches detailed and comprehensive Housing  Plan.   Sinn Féin launched their 2016- 2030 Housing Action Plan which sets out a detailed and comprehensive  plan to build 36,000 social and affordable housing units by 2021 at a cost of €1 billion per annum. Speaking on this today Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley said :  “In 2005 the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) stated that 200,000 social houses were needed…

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Sinn Féin puts forward proposals to improve childcare and make it affordable.

  Sinn Féin puts forward proposals to improve childcare and make it affordable.     Speaking following the launch of Sinn Féin‘s Child Care Policy Laois/South Kildare TD Brian Stanley said:  We want to give children the best start in life. By improving the quality of early childhood education to promote positive experiences and learning outcomes, we can also develop a system that is responsive to…

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Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley claims that the strict implementation of the new rent supplement ceilings, introduced on 1st July, are putting some tenants at risk of losing their homes.

“The recent increase in rent ceilings for people in receipt of rent supplement is welcome, but the new limits are still way below the market rents being demanded in Laois. Tenants in receipt of Rent Supplement who are paying rent above the new limits are being requested by the Department of Social Protection to get…

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