"Today, Belfast spoke with one voice. This was the biggest anti-racist demonstration this city has ever seen, and everyone who turned out should be proud. We reclaimed our city from the fascist thugs who tried to take it from us. The people have answered terror with solidarity..." - Gerry Caroll
"The speed with which the British far-right has descended... with Nigel Farage, jumping in to use it for their own divisive, nasty ends. These people don’t give a damn about working class people in Belfast. We shouldn’t let them exploit people’s real concern."
"The local community in North Belfast will be reeling this morning. They do not deserve more violence and intimidation on our streets. They need our support, understanding, and ability to begin to deal with what they have just experienced." - Gerry Carroll
"This is the direct the result of weeks of poison pumped online - cowards warning of an 'influx of people' and sneering at 'foreign food.' That bile has now ended in arson... Racism puts food on nobody's table."
"A company that operates in 45 countries and made over £1 billion in profit last year? They are not short of resources to guarantee secure and well-paid jobs. The receptionists, cleaners, porters and kitchen workers? Sodexo is treating them disgracefully." Gerry Carroll MLA
"If the state takes your DNA and holds it on a police database for years, the very least it can do is tell you so in plain writing. This legislation rightly gives people the right to a review of their retained material" Gerry Carroll
"When teachers take industrial action, they're doing it on behalf of their whole school community. They're saying enough is enough to a Stormont establishment that wants education on the cheap. That's exactly what Paul Givan is afraid of and it's why he's making this vindictive move."
50,000 households on housing waiting list exposes decade of failure. Gerry Carroll says. "It is the direct result of years of inaction, underfunding and political ineptitude."
"We know that women and babies were transferred between jurisdictions, that records are held in the Republic, in religious archives, and in institutions with little appetite for transparency. This inquiry cannot be hamstrung at the border." Gerry Carroll MLA
"£350 million was spent on the new Belfast campus. There is an endless pot of money for ‘international outreach’ in the likes of Qatar. A recent event honouring Arnold Schwarzenegger cost an eyewatering £45,000. This is financial recklessness of the highest order."
"This is a moment of vindication, hard-won through decades of courage and determination by the families and their supporters. Now it's time for state-backed killers to be brought to justice."
"They have refused to offer Caitríona and her family suitable alternative accommodation. They have also refused to meaningfully engage with the family or her tenants union, CATU." Gerry Carroll MLA
"People Before Profit has long argued that these sort of stunts help get all the big Stormont parties off the hook – not just the DUP. Unfortunately, the cynical posturing over the Sands statue is nothing new, and will happen again. That’s why we will continue to take a principled stand."
"The people of West Belfast don't want car bombs in their area - nowhere does. This must end." Cllr. Michael Collins
“Being shackled to Westminster's permanent austerity agenda is causing an untold amount of harm to people across the North. Executive parties have shown us time and again that they will accommodate that agenda whether it's handed down by the Tories or by Labour.” Gerry Carroll
"The cost of living crisis didn't wait for ministers to get their act together, and neither did the debt that many families have accumulated just trying to keep warm."
Urgent action is needed on skyrocketing fuel prices during a cost-of-living crisis that’s crushing ordinary people.
Fossil fuel dependence leaves workers exposed every time there is a global shock.
We need a wider fightback with workers and trade unions at the core.
"I am demanding answers from the University of Ulster: what jobs they plan to cut, what impact it will have on the education of students, and where else could the funds be found instead."
"The last time the Alliance party had the chance to vote to change the outdated, Thatcherite trade union laws, they voted against the Trade Union Freedom Bill... You cannot be a party of both big business and workers. It's one or the other, and Alliance needs to get off the fence..." Gerry Carroll
Over 40% of people here are living in fuel poverty. 27% of households went without heating or electricity in the past two years because they couldn't afford the bills. 1 in 4 children in west Belfast and Derry are living in poverty.
Gerry Carroll calls out Sinn Féin in Stormont for not saving struggling households from their proposed water levy while in power. "Sinn Féin made developer contributions voluntary - a totally wasted opportunity.”
"Rather than begging Westminster for help that clearly isn’t coming, the Executive must step in today. It is entirely within their remit to provide the £15.8 million to keep these services afloat."
U-turn on special school summer schemes threat... but this fiasco should never have happened.
Carroll: “I’m calling on families and education workers to come together and make clear that this decision will not stand. If ministers won't act, people will take to the streets and force them to.”
"Rents in Belfast have risen by more than 50% over the past five years. Private tenants are increasingly expected to pay eyewatering sums for homes that are cramped, in a poor state of disrepair or riddled with mould." We need this passed now.
Gerry Carroll: " the Finance Minister has decided upon a toothless voluntary developer contributions scheme. The few developers who choose to make a minimal voluntary contribution will bask in the glow of good PR, while our public infrastructure continues to collapse."
The 27% pay hike wasn't inevitable but it was unjustifiable
Gerry Carroll's amendment calls for the minimum age of criminal responsibility to be increased from 10 to 16, with no exceptions.
Action on damp and mould: motion brought by Gerry Carroll passed at Stormont this week. / Stormont's newly-established 'Independent' Remuneration Board has recommended an extortionate £14,000 pay rise for MLAs. Carroll says backlash is justified, not pay hike.