Housing

  • Build 80,000 social and affordable homes over five years

  • Create stronger statutory rights to social housing, and hold a Referendum on the right to housing  

  • End the State’s practice of institutionalising individuals and families in Family Hubs and Direct Provision, providing own-door housing instead

  • Immediately freeze rents until enough homes are built 

  • Introduce a system of rent caps

  • Strongly regulate short-term letting 

  • Strengthen the powers and staffing of the Rental Tenancies Board in order to stop unfair evictions 

  • Introduce an NCT-style inspection of rental premises 

  • Help first-time buyers by ensuring that rental payments are counted as part of credit ratings.

  • Re-introduce a Rent to Buy scheme where after three years of paying rent, it will function as a deposit for the house.

Climate & Environment

  • Invest in retrofitting homes across the country

  • Include Community Energy as part of the solution to sustainable energy use and generation, so that the transition to a clean energy system happens in a fairer, more democratic and decentralised manner

  • Eliminate fuel poverty by increasing Warmer Homes grant funding- 

  • Lead the charge towards a carbon neutral Ireland, ensuring stronger legislation and greater access to justice

  • Introduce impactful changes as fairly as possible, placing people at the heart of policymaking and ensuring a just transition 

  • Ensure that ALL proceeds from the carbon tax (not just €6/t as currently the case) are ring fenced for climate action

  • Establish a Diversification Task Force for farmers. Provide annual payments for farmers who convert sections of their land to growing trees.

  • Set out a rapid programme of peatland restoration and development of alternative native, broadleaf forest systems.

  • Ban the importation of fracked gas.

Work Reform

  • Keep state pension age at 66

  • Enshrine legal rights to flexible working 

  • Promote a 4-day working week 

  • Increase the minimum wage to a living wage 

  • Widen access to work for people with disabilities, by providing greater education, training and employment support

  • Legislate to ensure a right to collective bargaining for all workers

  • Introduce a wage transparency law with the aim of closing the gender pay gap

  • End bogus self-employment

Cycling & Transport

  • Increase the current transport budget funding for walking and cycling from less than 2% to 20% and ensure that these modes of travel are accessible and safe for all.

  • Prioritise a significant network of segregated cycle lanes for safer cycling, including the Greater Dublin Area Cycling Network Plan

  • Increase funding under the Smarter Travel scheme to support organisations in providing necessary cycling infrastructure such as showers, lockers and bike docking facilities

  • Invest in effective public transport, shortening commutes and improving quality of life

  • Reduce public transport fares and introduce a €2.50 flat-fare for a 90 minute transferable journey on Dublin Bus, Luas and DART services

  • Require that all new housing and service development are linked to adequate public transport

Children

Childcare

  • Provide low-cost, high quality childcare for all under 12 years of age

Education

  • Increase the capitation grant for DEIS schools by 50%

  • Ensure timely access to educational psychologist services

  • Ensure genuinely free access to primary and secondary school 

  • Provide parents with greater school choice

Disability

  • Invest in disability education services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Child Protection 

  • Recruit more social workers and provide better supports for them

  • Ensure that children’s Assessments of Need take place within the statutory timeframes and that they are guaranteed the services that they are identified to need in a timely manner.

  • Provide automatic therapeutic / trauma informed support for all children entering care and in care

  • Provide more resources to enable family contact for children in care

  • Expand the support provided to young people leaving care, including a ringfenced service of personal therapeutic supports at a time of their choice 

  • Invest in specialist facilities that will prevent the State sending children abroad for care

  • Fund a longitudinal study on children in care and leaving care

Healthcare

  • Invest in primary care, ensuring that our children receive appropriate treatment close to home

  • Ensure access to GPs, public health nurses, dietitians, speech and language therapists and other allied health professionals to offer our children the healthiest start in life