Siptu calls tax-cutting agenda ‘obscene’

In his final presidential address to his union’s biennial conference, Siptu president Jack O’Connor has said it is “obscene” the major political parties are promoting a tax-cutting agenda when so many children are homeless.

At the Cork conference, he called for a new alliance “of genuinely progressive forces” to prioritise investment in housing, healthcare, and education, and to guarantee collective bargaining rights for all workers.

“That should be the priority between now and the centenary of the foundation of the State in 2022, and not any tax-cutting agenda,” he said.