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Climate

“Concerted And Organised Campaign” For LNGs In State Will Scupper Ireland’s Climate Goals

Ambiguous stance of Coalition party leaders labelled as “an abandonment of climate movement by Coalition” People Before Profit’s spokesperson on Climate, Bríd Smith TD has attacked what she described

31 May 2022

Education

Government’s Plan For Special Education Centres “Extremely Concerning”

People Before Profit Education Spokesperson, Paul Murphy TD, has responded to the reported government plan for ‘special education centres’: “The reports about the government’s plan for ‘special education centres’

27 May 2022

Migrant Rights

People Before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, Welcomes Findings In Latest ESRI Report To Be Published In The Morning On Low-Income Renters And Housing Supports

In a statement this evening, Richard Boyd Barrett welcomed the findings of the new ESRI report that will be published tomorrow entitled “Low Income Renters and Housing Supports”. The new

25 May 2022

Workers Rights

Call For All Parties To Back MLSA Motion Calling On Government To Provide Medical Scientists With Pay Parity 

Calls on government to fund 20% vacant posts and end recruitment crisis People Before Profit today highlighted a motion that will be debated in the Dáil tomorrow, Wednesday, during the

24 May 2022

Health

TDs Slam Threatened Closure Of Children’s Inpatients Beds

People Before Profit TDs, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny, have reacted angrily to the news that the Linn Dara facility in West Dublin is set to see 11 of its

23 May 2022

Climate

Planning Regulators Statements On Data Centres Condemned

“Unholy alliance of state and vested business interests are leading us to disaster on data centre policy”- Bríd Smith TD Reacting to statements from the office of the planning

23 May 2022

Cost Of Living

Calls For Wealth Tax On Irish Billionaires As Oxfam Report Shows “Obscene” Increases In Fortunes Of Global Rich Whilst Poverty And Deprivation Continue To Rage

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has called on the government to introduce a wealth tax in the wake of an Oxfam report which shows that the wealth of Irish

23 May 2022

Workers Rights

Cost of Living Protest: Saturday 18th June Parnell Square, Dublin

Nationwide Mobilisations: Dublin: 1.00pm Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Sq. Cork: 2.00pm Outside Brown Thomas on Patrick’s Street. Limerick: 2.00pm Bedford Row Galway: 2.00pm Eyre Square

20 May 2022

Cost Of Living

People Before Profit Puts Down Dáil Motion To Support Medical Scientists

People Before Profit will use their private member’s time in the Dáil next week to demand that the government grant medical scientists pay parity. Their union went on a

20 May 2022