Public meeting hosted by People Before Profit Alliance in Clondalkin to discuss the movement to Repeal The 8th Amendment and how we can organise ourselves locally to push for a referendum. Bawnogue Community Centre, 7:30pm Thursday September 29th Speakers: Dr Peadar O’Grady – Doctors for Choice Cllr Madeleine Johansson – People Before Profit Alliance
Reposted from peoplebeforeprofit.ie There is more than a whiff of corruption arising from NAMA. The most obvious case has already been highlighted with Project Eagle in Northern Ireland. Here a giant US company Cerberus paid a €7 million fixer fee to secure assets originally worth €6.5 billion for just €1.34 billion. Even though Michael Noonan…
Calls for government to drop appeal to European Commission Calls for a investigation into all other multi-nationals that may have avoided paying the full rate of corporate tax in Ireland Anti-Austerity Alliance- People Before Profit will today submit an Amendment to the Government’s Apple motion. The amendment condemns the government’s decision to appeal the European…
From https://richardboydbarrett.ie The entire political establishment colluded with Apple in an act of “economic treason” to rob the public of billions desperately needed cash for public housing and other cash starved public services. Fine Gael, Labour, Fianna Fail and some independents turned off the cameras and voted down a PBP motion in the Finance committee calling for…
Last month the Irish government posted GDP growth figures of 26.1%. This figure is unheard of in Western economies which usually register no more than 3% growth. The cause of this miraculous expansion was a new set of accountancy rules that shifted €300 billion of foreign owned assets into Ireland as economic growth. For example,…
Organised by People Before Profit’s Gino Kenny TD, parents and children experiencing long delays in accessing Special Needs supports in Dublin Mid-West and across the country took part in a protest outside Leinster House on 13th July. More than 15,000 children are on waiting lists for up to two years for services such as speech…
Call comes after reports of economic growth of 26% People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, has demanded that the HSE respond to and inquiry he made about special needs school places, therapists and waiting times for services for special needs children. After a very successful meeting with parents, People Before Profit had written to the…
Government language around the issue is tinged with contempt for those availing of social welfare People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, has stated that the government’s apparent view of people availing of social welfare is elitist and snobbish. This claim comes in a response to a parliamentary question, tabled by Deputy Kenny, asking if the…
