Gino Kenny TD calls for a review of how the Department of Social Protection assesses lone parent claimants
People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has asked the Minister for Social Protection to explain the abnormally high level of inspections of applicants for One Parent Family payments by her department A recent report by Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD calls for a review of how the Department of Social Protection assesses lone parent claimants
PBP Newcastle Newsletter Autumn 2020
Contents in this issue: Busconnects: No city center bus for Newcastle at Off-Peak Dying with Dignity Bill Support our Teachers: Keep our Schools safe Public Inquiry needed into COVID deaths in Nursing Homes Climate Crisis and COVID-19 New government. A … Continue reading PBP Newcastle Newsletter Autumn 2020
Budget 2021
People Before Profit Launch Budget 2021 proposals for a Zero Covid strategy and enhanced protections for workers People Before Profit propose an All-Ireland Covid Action Fund to support and All Ireland approach People Before Profit today launched their Alternative Budget … Continue reading Budget 2021
Zero Covid: What It Means And How We Get There
The NPHET recommendation that we move to Level 5 restrictions is the result of months of government failures on Covid-19. They caved to business interests and prematurely lifted restrictions. They allowed the second wave to be seeded by failing to … Continue reading Zero Covid: What It Means And How We Get There
People Before Profit Rathcoole Newsletter Autumn 2020
Contents in this issue: Busconnects Victory: Rathcoole will keep city center bus Save the Woodlands in Rathcoole Support our Teachers: Keep our Schools safe Public Inquiry needed into COVID deaths in Nursing Homes Climate Crisis and COVID-19 New government. A … Continue reading People Before Profit Rathcoole Newsletter Autumn 2020
Special Committee For Dying With Dignity Bill Branded As “Delaying Tactics” By Government
Special Committee for Dying with Dignity Bill branded as “delaying tactics” by government Free vote must be given for bill to proceed to committee stage Government must withdraw amendment People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has said that the government’s … Continue reading Special Committee For Dying With Dignity Bill Branded As “Delaying Tactics” By Government
Assisted dying is not about ending a person’s life, it’s ending the suffering – what the Dying With Dignity Bill means
Published in The Sun THE Dying With Dignity Bill 2020 will be debated in the Dail this Thursday. The bill aims to provide the right to assisted dying for people with a terminal illness. Cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has … Continue reading Assisted dying is not about ending a person’s life, it’s ending the suffering – what the Dying With Dignity Bill means
Cuts To Pup Payment – A Dangerous Betrayal Of “All In It Together”
Cuts to PUP payment – a dangerous betrayal of “all in it together” principal that will undermine solidarity needed to fight covid Calls for a tax on wealth to cover cost of Covid-19 supports Solidarity People Before Profit condemn the … Continue reading Cuts To Pup Payment – A Dangerous Betrayal Of “All In It Together”
Gino Kenny TD joined by Vicky Phelan, Tom Curran and Gail O’Rorke in launching Dying with Dignity Bill 2020
Bill seeks to allow for a dignified and peaceful end of life with medical and regulatory oversight At a media conference today outside Leinster House, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny was joined by Vicky Phelan, Tom Curran and Gail … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD joined by Vicky Phelan, Tom Curran and Gail O’Rorke in launching Dying with Dignity Bill 2020
PBP Lucan Newsletter Autumn 2020
Contents in this issue: Reopening of Schools Draft Plan on Parking Bye Laws Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Public Inquiry needed to COVID-19 related deaths in Nursing Homes Debenhams workers: Fighting for a fair redundancy Dignity in Dying Bill 2020 New … Continue reading PBP Lucan Newsletter Autumn 2020
Anti-Mask Is Anti-Worker
More than 120 healthcare workers were diagnosed with Covid-19 in the past week as transmission levels increase across the country, new figures show. The general secretary of the INMO, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, has spoken out against the lack of testing, … Continue reading Anti-Mask Is Anti-Worker
Medical Cannabis Campaigner TD says Government need to state if access programme will commence
People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, has called on the government to definitively state whether the proposed Medical Cannabis Access Programme will ever commence and if so, when. In an internal Dept. of Health briefing document to the new Minister … Continue reading Medical Cannabis Campaigner TD says Government need to state if access programme will commence
Anti Mask Campaign Threatens Front Line Workers And Boosts The Far Right
The dangerous anti-mask rally in Dublin on Saturday last, not only endangered the health of those attending, and anyone who had contact with them, it also provided a flag of convenience for right wing extremists who have been trying to … Continue reading Anti Mask Campaign Threatens Front Line Workers And Boosts The Far Right
Refusal from Education Minister to go before Covid Committee this week means no opposition oversight a head of school reopening
Serious concerns of stakeholders fall on government deaf ears People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny, following correspondence with the office of the Minister for Education that she will not appear before the Oireachtas Covid Committee until next week, has said … Continue reading Refusal from Education Minister to go before Covid Committee this week means no opposition oversight a head of school reopening
Gino Kenny TD has called for the resignation of EU Commissioner Phil Hogan
People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has called for the resignation of EU Commissioner Phil Hogan, Supreme Court Judge Seamus Woulfe, the Independent TD Noel Grealish and the other elected representatives who attended the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner, breaching the … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD has called for the resignation of EU Commissioner Phil Hogan
