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Independents 4 Change, previously known as Independents for Equality Movement, is an Irish political grouping registered as a political party since 2014. Its registered officer is Wexford TD Mick Wallace.
Four candidates contested the 2014 local elections for the group in each of the local electoral areas in Wexford County Council. None of them were elected. The party adopted its current name in September 2015, after the establishment of the Right2Change electoral alliance, which its candidates in the 2016 general election subscribed.
Sitting TDs Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, and Tommy Broughan, and councillor Barry Martin contested the 2016 general election for Independents 4 Change, with Broughan, Collins, Daly and Wallace being elected.
Within the 32nd Dáil, I4C took advantage of revised Dáil standing orders to form their own technical group, which also includes three Independent TDs who are not members of the party itself: Catherine Connolly, Thomas Pringle, and Maureen O'Sullivan.
In 2016 Ruth Nolan, a member of South Dublin County Council for Lucan who had been elected for the People Before Profit Alliance, joined Independents4Change.