Aontú has referred to as for a €10 per week enhance within the State pension in its pre-budget submission, starting as of subsequent yr.
The celebration mentioned the pension must be retained from age 66, whereas an auto-enrolment pension scheme, which might require all employers to routinely enrol employees right into a pension scheme, must be established in 2022.
Aontú’s submission was printed on Saturday forward of Budget 2022 on Tuesday. The celebration mentioned it will enhance Garda numbers to 16,500 personnel, spend money on drug rehabilitation and detox providers, and guarantee funding is allotted for necessary physique cameras for all frontline gardaí.
It mentioned the banking levy must be prolonged and elevated to make sure a €250 million return each year.
The celebration additionally referred to as for the imposition of a digital gross sales and providers tax “to make sure these benefiting from these unprecedented instances can contribute to society’s profit” – which might be a 3 per cent levy on all digital providers and gross sales which are supplied within the nation.
“Ireland is more and more divided, with each passing day,” Aontú’s submission says.
“It’s divided by how a lot you earn, by the place you reside, whether or not you reside in Dublin or in the remainder of nation, whether or not you could have public healthcare or personal healthcare, whether or not you could have a incapacity or not, whether or not you lease or personal your individual dwelling.
“The Eire of right now is not only divided by partition, however by area, revenue and background. The price of residing and social inequality on this nation is dictating the standard of life you may stay right here.
“This division is the results of the truth that not one of the crises of the previous decade have been resolved. If you happen to measure Eire when it comes to the fee and availability of housing, well being ready lists, spatial imbalance resulting in a commuter hell, the extortionate value of residing and so on, these are worse than 10 years in the past.”
The celebration mentioned its submission centered on “the work of repairing our society and repairing the injury accomplished by too many governments”.
A provisional allocation of €90 million is included within the doc “to cut back Leap Card fares and ticket costs for inter-county journey”.
It additionally units out the creation of a distant working hub programme, which might set up 150 working hubs outdoors of Dublin by 2024 at a value of €100 million.