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Contact your TD about the Social Protection Bill
Today Thursday and tomorrow Friday the Social Welfare Bill will be discussed in the DAIL. It is important that all aspects of its contents are discussed and debated so that we all have a record of why people voted for and against the proposals.
Because the Budget is much earlier this year there is time to discuss and debate it’s content. It’s not like a December Budget where there is an urgency to bring forward measures before a January deadline 2014.
We have written to the chief whip and the whips of all parties and groupings asking that sufficient time be allocated for a proper debate on each of the issues to be decided. These measures will affect the lives of Older and Younger people for a long time to come and those voting do require adequate time to consider what they are doing.
Join Senior Citizens Parliament Protest Rally Tomorrow At 1.15
The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament urges all older, younger and people across the lifecycle to join us tomorrow at 1.15pm outside Dáil Éireann. Make a special effort to be there alone or with friends and family. Together we can make things happen, apart we will stand divided. Let’s show that the poor, the sick, the old, the young, the frail and disabled can stand up and be counted.
People from all across the country tell us they are travelling in numbers. Hopefully that is true but to make sure you will need to be there too. Don’t leave it to someone else.
Following the publication of the National Positive Ageing Strategy (NPAS) in April 2013, older people were expecting to see in BUDGET 2014 some tangible examples of the government commitment to NPAS. Remember NPAS is about ageing from the cradle to the grave.
Make an effort, be there in Molesworth Street tomorrow at 1.15 and show you care.
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