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No Country for Old Men & Women
WILL BUDGET 2013 MAKE IRELAND NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN & WOMEN ?
Regrettably it would appear that the government intend to target Older People in Budget 2013. If you do not agree with the measures which have been well leaked in the media then
YOU MUST ACT NOW!
Contact your government TDS, Senators and Councillors and ask them to lobby to have these proposed measures reversed. Leaving it to others or waiting until after Wednesday’s announcement in the Dáil may be too late. Many ordinary representatives are very unhappy with what is being proposed and remember it is they who will have to vote for the proposals. Tell them how the cuts and changes will affect you.
NOW is the time to act if you do not agree with what is being proposed.
If you need your medical card, cannot afford to pay a tax on your home, cannot afford the prescription charge, the increased local authority rent or to heat your home then act now. Go to the clinics, telephone, email or send them a letter.
Remember to voice your concerns in a quiet and dignified manner but make sure they understand how you will be affected BY THEIR PROPOSALS.
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Budget 2013 Will Affect You
ACT NOW
Some key elements of Budget 2013 are emerging through targeted leaks. All or most of them have the potential to affect you, your family and extended family. Many seem like proposals that may well emerge others may be just kite flying.
However NOW is the time to act if you do not agree with what is being proposed. I am urging you all to contact your local Dáil Deputy, Senator and local representatives to voice your concern. Do not delay, you must act this weekend. Go to their clinics, telephone them send a letter or an email.
Express your concerns in a quiet and dignified manner, that way they will listen. Tell them how austerity has affected you and your family’s lives.
Show them how you will be affected if you have lose a benefit or have to make new payments.
Remember everything is still on the table and there is still time to influence the outcome of the Budget process. Please pass this message to your friends, members of your groups and any other contacts you have.
NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE SURE THE VOICE OF OLDER PEOPLE IS HEARD & HEEDED
ENDS
Contact details
Mairead Hayes
Email: mairead@seniors.ie
Across the generations we stand
Older people are suffering the ill effects of the cutbacks and they stand in solidarity with their children & grandchildren who are also suffering.
This is why the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament will proudly march alongside trade unions and other community groups before Budget 2013 on Saturday next to say “No to Austerity”. We are asking all our members around the country to walk alongside us with dignity & respect to show the Coalition government that we have had enough of the recession, enough of the cuts to income and enough of the threats to the travel pass. The last Budget saw a vicious cut to the means tested fuel allowance thus increasing fuel poverty.
So walk alongside us … but wrap up warm with good shoes and scarves and gloves. This time however we want you to wear different shades of grey to symbolise the many hits we’ve taken. But we are not without hope – wear a sprig of green as well to show that we still have hope. And what about some “Greys in Shades” – wear some sunglasses as well.
Lastly what about some placards? We’ll have some but we encourage you to make your own & bring them with you. Your own words are always best but here are some possible slogans you could have on your placards:
- We’ve paid for our Pensions
- For a proper health service
- Keep Older People Warm & Mobile
- Fair Pensions for all
- For dignity & respect
- For a better, fairer old age
- A Fairer Ireland for Older People
- HITS – Health, Income, Travel, Security
- Hit the bankers – Not the pensioners
- Bash Bankers – Not Pensioners
- We all stand together
- Hands off our Pensions
- We’ve paid for our pass
- No more austerity
- Enough is Enough
- No more cuts
- We’re all in it together
- Why not just shoot us?
- Never too old to suffer
- No Country for Old Men … or Old Women
ISCP against the HITS
ISCP shows solidarity across the generations
50 Greys in Shades
The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament urges all our members, friends and supporters to join us tomorrow, November 24, on the anti-austerity march & rally in Dublin.
We will meet at Cathal Brugha Street (just off O’Connell Street) at 12.45 pm. Look out for the ISCP banner.
We march in protest at the cuts and in support of investment and job creation. We march in solidarity with those of all ages affected by this recession. We march with dignity & respect.
Hints:
- Dress in grey and wear your shades. Add a hint of green.
- Wrap up well against the cold.
- Bring a banner if you have one.
- Make up and bring your placards.
MEETING POINT FOR OUR SUPPORTERS
Cathal Brugha Street (just off O’Connell Street) look out for our banner
Time: 12.45 pm
Theme for ISCP:
More than 50 Shades of Grey and Green
Bring your own poster or banner and remember “a picture paints a thousand words”.
So please use your wonderful imaginations to highlight YOUR burning issues
Remember also we are asking all our participants to dress in Shades of Grey with a sprig of Green.
Also to wear Sun Glasses (Shades!!)
Queries to 01 856 1243 or email info@seniors.ie.
Check our website http://81.92.193.133/~seniors and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Wrap up well and please join us.
“No To Austerity!”
The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament (ISCP) will be taking part in the anti-austerity march & rally being organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions on Saturday 24 November 2012.
We are calling on all older people from around the country and especially those in the Greater Dublin area to join us
said Máiréad Hayes, CEO of the ISCP.
We want our members and friends and families to march in protest at the cuts and in support of investment and job creation.
The Parliament is asking their members to dress in shades of grey with a sprig of green.
The grey of austerity must be offset with the green shoots of hope
continued Ms. Hayes.
“There are a wide variety of older people in Irish society and this will be reflected in the shades of grey we will wear on the march. Older people are working, retired and unemployed. They are able bodied and disabled. They are carers and they are being cared for. They are living alone or in families or in homes.
However we stand together in 2012, the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, with all those suffering under the austerity budgets and those struggling to survive on the brink of poverty.
concluded Ms. Hayes.
Older people and their families are all too familiar with the effects of the cutbacks on the most vulnerable in Irish society.