TD to question HSE on winter preparedness of the health system if shoddy recruitment and treatment of staff not addressed at Oireachtas Health Committee today People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny will today question the HSE’s Paul Reid on the … Continue reading TD To Question HSE On Winter Preparedness Of The Health System
Gino Kenny TD will also raise treatment of workers in the health service People Before Profit TD and Health Spokesperson Gino Kenny will raise the issue of “misleading health budget headline figures” at this morning’s Health Committee session. He will … Continue reading PBP Health Spokesperson to raise “misleading Health Budget headline figures” at Health Committee Session this morning
Zero-Covid is not a strategy for more lockdowns, it is a strategy to prevent further lockdowns. It is a strategy that prioritises public health by putting in place testing and tracing systems, extra resources in health care, ensuring workplace safety, … Continue reading Zero Covid Strategy – a roadmap
People Before Profit TD and Dáil Health Committee member Gino Kenny has urged the Health minister to listen to the concerns of the 221 group before proceeding with the Cervical Check Tribunal. The TD states that the whole rationale of … Continue reading TD condemns government decision to move ahead with Cervical Tribunal
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
Growing concerns about safety of students and teachers means Dáil must be recalled to get a full report from the Minister in relation to schools reopening In a statement today People Before Profit has called on the Minister for Education … Continue reading PBP says Minister for Education must come out of hiding
We are now at serious risk of a second wave of Covid-19, with between 38-69 new cases being reported every day in the South for the past week. The number of positive tests in the North has now multiplied by … Continue reading Failure To Protect Workers Could Seed Second Wave
July Stimulus Package – Public Investment to End Neoliberalism Today the government announce a major package to stimulate the economy. The details will be made clear later on, but it is likely that the state will borrow in the region … Continue reading We Need Public Investment To End Neoliberalism
