Will Zappone remain silent? People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, who is a member of the Daíl Social Protection Committee has called on Leo Varadkar to end the lies about lone parents and to immediately act on the recommendations of the Millar Report. The long awaited report, commissioned by the Department of Social Protection- conducted…

People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, has questioned Minister Leo Varadkar’s knowledge of his brief after he suggested that lone parents allowance had not been cut during the previous Fine Gael/Labour government. Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar, said on Morning Ireland today that his government had not cut lone parents allowance during the last…

The private members motion proposed by Fianna Fáil on government responsibility for high drug costs and pharmacy fees is both inadequate and dripping with hypocrisy. Since the late 1980s successive Fianna Fáil governments have devastated the health service, cutting bed numbers from over 18,000 to just over 10,000. Our bed numbers per head of population…

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…