PBP Summer 2016 Newsletter now online

Contents: A Heartfelt Thank You Water Charges: A victory for people power Clondalkin Equine Club 68 Bus Service Housing Crisis a national disgrace Introducing your new Clondalkin councillor We need pay rises after 8 years of austerity 1916 Scramblers Special Needs in crisis Clonburris for council houses Cllr Ruth Nolan: Progress on Lucan Swimming Pool/Adamstown…

New Green Bin Charges in July will only encourage more illegal dumping

UPDATE: PBP campaign forces government to abandon recycling charge. See press release PBP Campaign forces government to back down on environmentally regressive Green Waste charges The new green bin charge was introduced by former environment minister Alan Kelly in the last weeks of his ministry. Deputy Kenny said the only beneficiaries would be private and for-profit waste…

A victory for Home-Help Services

People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny intervenes to drive changes to the Programme for Government on cuts to Home-Help Services In a victory for Carers and Care Workers, an intervention in Dáil Eireann by Deputy Gino Kenny, PBP Spokesperson on Health, has forced a substantive change in the Programme for Government. As a result, the…