Statement from People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson in regards to last nights SDCC budget which is controlled by the ruling group of FF/FG and the Green Party. Pretty shameful stuff from the alliance of the extreme centre. There were angry scenes at the annual budget meeting in South Dublin County Council. The Budget was…
People Before Profit candidate says child waiting list “shocking and an indictment on governments performance on health” People Before Profit by-election candidate for Dublin Mid-West Kellie Sweeney has said that the revelations of child patient waiting list are shocking and an indictment of the governments performance on health”. Ms Sweeney who is a qualified nurse…
Kellie Sweeney is the PBP candidate for the Dublin Mid-West on Friday Novemberr 29th. Kellie is a registered general nurse and a mother to two young children. She stood as a People Before Profit candidate in May’s local elections in the Lucan ward, where she received almost 500 first-preference votes. She has been involved in…
Next week, a writ will be moved in the Dail for four by-elections which will probably take place at the end of November. The constituencies concerned are Dublin Mid West. Wexford, Fingal, and Cork North Central. People Before Profit has nominated Kellie Sweeney to contest Dublin Mid-West. Kellie is a registered nurse who founded the…
Campaigners for medicinal cannabis have called on the government to give a definitive time frame for the commencement of the proposed Medical Cannabis Access Programme (MCAP). The programme was announced in late June. Legislation to underpin the programme for the first time gave Irish-based medical practitioners legal and medical direction to prescribe specific medical cannabis…
On Wednesday 6th November the Dail will debate a People before Profit motion that can restore some basic democracy to this country. The motion will prevent the Government using a procedural trick called the “money message” that has stopped over 55 new laws being passed so far. Th money message is a part of the Dáil’s rules…
Last week, Martin Kenny, made a strong speech in the Dail condemning those who said that asylum seekers were being ‘dumped’ in Ballinamore. ‘Dumping’, he said, is a term you use about garbage – not about human being beings who have much to contribute. Afterwards he received abusive texts and threats. Last night, thugs visited…
Fianna Fail are up to their old tricks. Recent revelations that the Fianna Fail TD, Timmy Dooley, was voting in the Dail when he was not present illustrate the party’s approach. But there is an even bigger scandal which the mainstream media are not reporting on – namely the ’money message’ which is being used…
A Planet to Save – A World to WinThe often-quoted warning from revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg that society is at a crossroads, either Socialism or Barbarism, is obviously incredibly relevant today. Each week brings new reports and figures showing how capitalism and its addiction to profit is destroying our environment and killing the planet’s biodiversity.…
People Before Profit response to Brexit deal between Boris Johnson and the EU: People Before Profit do not support a no deal Brexit. We are resolutely opposed to it, and support moves to avert such a scenario. We do not accept, however, that it is Boris Johnson’s deal or nothing. The threat of a no…
