People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny will today call on the Minister for Education to instigate an ‘On Call for Ireland’ for Education as it is becoming clearer that Ireland still faces dramatic challenges regarding Covid 19. The TD will … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD to call on Education Minister to instigate ‘On Call for Ireland’ for Education in Dáil today

TD to also raise Support our Secretaries campaign At the Covid Committee today, which is covering the area of education, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny will call for an ‘On Call for Ireland’ campaign for education in order to … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD to call for an ‘On Call for Ireland’ campaign for Education

Aer Lingus is embarking on a strategy that will impoverish its workforce.   Pays cuts of 70% of income is planned as well as major changes in conditions. It began when Aer Lingus announced that they would unilaterally implement a productivity … Continue reading Stop Pay Cuts At Aer Lingus

Despite a concerted attempt to stop protests, the Black Lives Matters movement drew thousands onto the streets over the past few days with social distancing. The worst attempt to prevent protests occurred in the North where police staged roadblocks, called … Continue reading Police Criminalizing Protests Despite Social Distancing Observed

TD says staff reductions are crazy in light of Covid crisis and possible restrictions on school opening   Gino Kenny TD pleads for Scoil Ida’s teacher ratio to stay the same for coming year in light of Covid crisis People … Continue reading Calls for Government to freeze proposed teacher reductions in primary schools

We could pay the €350 Covid-19 payment for SIX years and that would still only equal what was paid in bank bailout. These are the startling facts which the mainstream media does not report. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are … Continue reading We Bailed Out Banks- We Can Keep The €350 Covid-19 Payment

People Before Profit TDs, speaking at a media conference before the Dáil session on Thursday, said that the government must do more to protect vulnerable workers and sectors whose jobs and health in some cases are in a precarious position … Continue reading PBP say government must do more to protect vulnerable workers during and following Covid-19 crisis

Hospitality sector workers must be protected if economy to open up again. Childcare needed for all workers especially frontline workers. People Before Profit TDs today outlined what they would be raising with the Ministers for European Affairs, Tourism and Children … Continue reading PBP to tell government “Workers will not pay for the Covid-19 fallout” in Dáil today

People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny joins protest in support of workers “Some firms are trying to use the Covid-19 public health emergency to deprive workers of their rights” Workers employed by the company Instant Upright based at City West … Continue reading Workers in Saggart hold protest as employers stealthily move company during lockdown

TD demands enforcement of Covid 19 guidelines in workplaces Following a recent meeting between construction companies, unions and government departments to discuss the stress-testing of health and safety procedures to allow building sites to re-open, a Construction Industry Federation spokesperson … Continue reading Plans to re-open building sites on a site-by-site basis must not happen until it is deemed completely safe to do so

At a media conference today on the Dáil plinth People Before Profit TDs outlined what they would raise in the Chamber during the sessions with An Taoiseach and the Ministers for Finance, Health and Education. Richard Boyd Barrett TD will … Continue reading No return to pre-coronavirus status quo and no austerity in post- Covid-19 Ireland

Gino Kenny TD says “It is illogical to leave these families out of the new arrangement” On the 6th April the Government announced that an arrangement would be put in place for the collection and delivery of medicinal cannabis for … Continue reading CBD medication patients left out of Government Covid-19 collection and delivery arrangement

People Before Profit TDs Richard Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny have released a statement on the controversy over the actions of the Keeling’s company bringing in workers on a Ryanair flight to pick fruit at their sites across Dublin. The TDs are demanding that both the HSA and the WRC inspect the facilities to insure the workers are housed and working in conditions which will allow for social distancing and isolation if needed. They condemned both Keeling’s and Ryanair for what they called “gross exploitation of workers and complete disregard for their safety and the safety of wider … Continue reading TDs demand HSA and WRC inspect Keeling’s sites and workers accommodation

Council staff across Local Authorities in Ireland are working tirelessly to ensure essential services keep working and that no one gets left behind during this crisis. People Before Profit Cllr Madeleine Johansson, and Gino Kenny TD, have called for hazard … Continue reading PBP call for hazard pay for all frontline council staff