People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has said that he is pleased that the Government have initiated a pause on using transvaginal mesh implants in surgical procedures following recent moves by the NHS in the UK and Northern Ireland to do likewise. The TD made the comments following a reply to a parliamentary question from…
Contents in this issue: Repealing the 8th Amendment – Thank you for voting Yes! Clonburris SDZ Cervical Check Scandal – Stop the Outsourcing Recycling charges and Plastics: The Scandal behind the scam Dail Dairy Medicinal Cannabis Bill Selling off public land at Kilcarberry Grange to private developers is “outrageous” 300k: Have Your Say Anger at…
Government rhetoric on mental health appears to be just hollow waffle People Before Profit TDs Gino Kenny and Bríd Smith have slammed the decision to close the Linn Dara child and adolescent high-intensity day hospital in Cherry Orchard. The HSE has announced the closure of the Linn Dara Day Hospital in Cherry Orchard which is…
The country is in the middle of the biggest housing crisis in the history of the state. There are 10 000 people registered homeless. Nationally in the last ten years the construction of social housing has been at its lowest in the history of the state. The record in South Dublin County Council on housing…
Ireland still has a long way to go in achieving LGBT+ equality People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny said that he is very pleased that the government have just announced plans to progress omitted aspects of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 by drafting legislation to deal with the remaining parts that have yet…
In a statement this afternoon, People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny announced that he will attend a medicinal cannabis presentation by a leading American Medical Cannabis Doctor, Dr. Frank D’Ambrosio, in the House of Commons tomorrow. Dr D’Ambrosio, who has been campaigning for access to medicinal cannabis in the United States for the past twenty…
People Before Profit warmly welcomes the historic vote of the Irish people on 25 May to repeal the 8th Amendment. We believe it marks a decisive and final break with Ireland’s dark past when women were treated as second class citizens and often with terrible cruelty and oppression, and the birth of a better Ireland of…
Bill is needed for vital access for thousands of suffering people who need medicinal cannabis People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has hit out at the rumours in the media that Minister for Health Simon Harris has updated cabinet on the progress of the cannabis access programme; that the access programme is on “a more…
Dear Editor, In two weeks time the Irish population will go to the polls in a historic referendum to repeal the 8th amendment from the Irish constitution. The amendment was inserted in 1983 and equates the life of a woman with the life of a fetus. In the past few weeks there has been serious…
Brid Smith, Richard Boyd-Barret and Gino Kenny, the People Before Profit TDs, launched their poster today – 27.4.18, urging a YES vote in the Referendum on Repeal of the 8th amendment to the constitution. This video is of Brid explaining what PBP means by CHOICE
