‘Freeze inflation, not the nation’: protesters call for more action on cost of living in budget

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Alliance of political, trade union, student, environmental and campaigning groups joined march in Dublin

Protesters chanted"too many landlords in the Dáil, that’s why rents will never fall". Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.

The coalition is an alliance of political, trade union, student, environmental, and campaigning groups with members of People Before Profit, Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats, the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament, Inclusion Ireland and Extinction Rebellion present.

“Despite the fact they have unprecedented resources available to them, the Government are clearly managing expectations to not really put the spending and investment that is necessary to deal with the cost of living hikes that people are facing and a dire and ever worsening housing crisis,” he said. “It is just miserable, I am a young worker, I have a job which is good, but I’ve no hope of getting a house. I pay so much on my rent and I basically work to survive,” she said.

“Bills have increased massively. Right now, I’m living by myself and I’m a bit worried about the winter. I won’t be heating the place just for myself.” “Elderly people are finding it so tough, they don’t know how they’re going to cope this winter. I called down to a neighbour as I hadn’t seen any light coming from their home in a couple of days. The man, who is in his 70s, was sitting in the dark and his wife had only died about six months ago. It is unbelievable what’s going on.”

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