Anti-Poverty

Central Bank Dublin, encased in gold screen.

Central Bank Wealth Report Shows ‘Grotesque’ Inequality

People Before Profit's Richard Boyd Barrett says Central Bank wealth report reveals ‘grotesque’ inequality. Repeats call for wealth tax on richest 1% to raise €9 billion

26 Feb 2026

Northside Home Care Workers picket the company on Bunratty Drive Coolock in January

Solidarity With The Northside Home Care Services Workers

These workers are fighting to stop their employer denying their deserved pay rise. Get behind them.

23 Feb 2026

Supermarket checkouts

People Before Profit slam latest grocery price hikes - Another opportunity for parties of the left to work together

People Before Profit has criticised the Government’s inaction on the cost-of-living as grocery price inflation reaches 6.8% Tuesday at 12 noon the Affordable Ireland Campaign will be launched at an event outside Leinster House on Kildare Street.

9 Feb 2026

JCBs and water workers on a dig.

Stealth Privatisation of Irish Water

In the most recent annual statement for Irish Water, the single biggest item in operating costs (€335 million) was ‘Hired and Contracted Services’- companies, private builders, and contractors. It's privatisation through the back door. That is why Government refuses the referendum.

22 Jan 2026

Richard Boyd Barrett TD

Farmers, Climate, Workers' Rights: How Mercosur Sells Us All Out

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mercosur exposes "the big powers that dominate the European Union, which are only interested in promoting the interests of the big car manufacturers and the big multinationals at the expense of ordinary working people, small farmers and the environment. That's the truth..."

14 Jan 2026

First Minister Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill and People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll.

People Before Profit Rejects Status Quo Budget from Sinn Féin

With "unconscionable" rates hikes, Gerry Carroll says, "Sinn Fein’s Finance Minister conveniently fails to acknowledge that the Executive - including his own party - is acting as a handmaiden for British austerity. Executive parties are implementing punitive cuts by choice, not necessity."

9 Jan 2026

Cllr Conor Reddy in front of Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil and a Special Education Needs Campaign Protest with Bernard Mulvany

Councillor Conor Reddy - Minister’s Replies Show No Real Plan for Special Education

Submitted by Richard Boyd Barrett, replies to Cllr Conor Reddy's questions reveal a system that is still operating year to year, no long-term planning, no clarity about scale of need, no specific commitments for areas under most pressure. Full document available.

3 Dec 2025

Gerry Carroll MLA in front of composite image of Stormont and Westminster

Labour Budget Protects the Wealthy while Working Class Communities Pay the Price

Carroll: "Tinkering around the edges of reform can never undo the damage caused by more than a decade of austerity. The growing desire for a radical left alternative must be capitalised upon as soon as possible, to take the fight to both Starmer and Farage."

28 Nov 2025

Paul Murphy next to the familar Building Energy Rating Scale in front of a terrace of homes.

Paul Murphy’s BER Bill will be Voted on in the Dáil This Evening

Requires landlords to retrofit private rented accommodation by 2030. Calls on Government not to leave renters in the cold.

26 Nov 2025