Patrick Curtin selected as People Before Profit GE candidate

Patrick Curtin has been selected as the General Election candidate for Waterford's branch of People Before Profit-Solidarity.

In the announcement of his candidacy, Mr Curtin said “I’m proud to have been selected to be the People Before Profit-Solidarity candidate for Waterford for the general election. In this election, we will have the opportunity to finally end 100 years of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil rule. They leave a legacy of housing crises, hospital waiting lists and a chronic lack of additional needs resources and supports for children. It’s long past time to be rid of them."

The first-ever President of SETUSU for the Waterford Campus, Patrick Curtin recently ran unsuccessfully in the recent local elections in the Waterford City south constituency receiving 133 first preference votes, 1.8% of the vote.

Running in the General Election, the former Chair of WIT Ógra Shinn Féin said that "another Ireland is possible..

"An Ireland in which we invest the wealth in public services, to establish an Irish NHS, to provide free childcare in a public system, and truly free and inclusive education. Wages have lagged [behind] inflation for several years, so we need to give workers a break by abolishing the USC. Instead, we should tax multi-millionaires.

"We need rent controls to reduce rent and we need to use the Apple tax to capitalise on a state construction company to build the tens of thousands of social and affordable housing we need. We need a left government that takes action to give real solidarity to Palestine – not just the weasel words of Simon Harris and the government. We need a government that will not scapegoat migrants and refugees for the housing crisis, and will take radical climate action such as making public transport free, retrofitting all housing in the state to a BER of B2 or above, and ban new data centres."

"While other parties flip-flop, we guarantee we will never go in with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael. We fight to end 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and for another Ireland”.

Ahead of the local elections this year, Mr Curtin said in an interview with Waterford News & Star that his biggest political influence was Michael Collins.