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
Contents in this issue: COVID crisis: Workers must come first Talks for a Left government Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme Access to Spinraza: One year on Going back to work? Put your safety first! Housing developement in Clonburris Planning applications in … Continue reading PBP Dublin Mid-West newsletter Summer 2020
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
Covid 19 made abundantly clear that our existing health services needed radical transformation to cope with the pandemic. Insufficient hospital bed capacity, too few intensive care beds, too few hospital nurses and staff, glaring structural defects accumulated over decades, as … Continue reading Open letter calling for an All-Ireland National Health Service
Latest ISSU survey shows that 8 out of 10 students agree that it should be cancelled Dublin Mid-West TD Gino Kenny today called for the Minister for Education to cancel the Leaving Certificate. He said:” I have repeatedly called for … Continue reading Gino Kenny says: “Minister must make the decision to Cancel the Leaving Cert now and put students out of their misery”
Gino Kenny calls on the Minister for Health to “deliver on his promise to these children and their families” It is now almost a year since the HSE approved access to the drug Spinraza in the treatment of children with … Continue reading Spinraza still not available to all children with SMA despite being approved last year
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
In a statement, TD Gino Kenny has said that he is glad that other opposition parties have joined People Before Profits call to have the Leaving Cert cancelled. The TD made the call during questions to the Minister for Education … Continue reading PBP glad other opposition parties join in call for Leaving Cert cancellation
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
Richard Boyd Barrett TD said: “The treatment of the Debenhams workers is utterly unacceptable. The company is still operating in this country north and south and in the UK but just throws workers with decades of service on to the … Continue reading PBP supports the Debenhams workers and call for government intervention
Make Noise On May Day Support Our Frontline Workers Demand a Living Wage of €15 an hour Demand the Right to Join a Union From Derry to Dublin make some noise and hang out a red flag for workers’ rights. … Continue reading Make Noise On May Day
Shocking reports of Israeli settler violence against Palestinian’s the West Bank People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has said that reports of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank are “a shocking indication as to the violence that … Continue reading PBP TD calls on Tánaiste to make a statement condemning Israeli settler violence
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
Over 20 workers who protested outside Debenhams in Henry Street were threatened with arrest today if they did not disperse. This is the first time that emergency social distancing legislation has been used to break up a workers’ picket line. … Continue reading Gardaí Disperse Workers’ Protest At Debenhams
