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…

Calls for government to drop appeal to European Commission Calls for a investigation into all other multi-nationals that may have avoided paying the full rate of corporate tax in Ireland Anti-Austerity Alliance- People Before Profit will today submit an Amendment to the Government’s Apple motion. The amendment condemns the government’s decision to appeal the European…

From https://richardboydbarrett.ie The entire political establishment colluded with Apple in an act of “economic treason” to rob the public of billions desperately needed cash for public housing and other cash starved public services. Fine Gael, Labour, Fianna Fail and some independents turned off the cameras and voted down a PBP motion in the Finance committee calling for…