News Free Contraception: Why Are We Not Following France? Back in 2019, Health Minister Simon Harris made an important announcement. Free contraception would be available from 2021. The two-year delay was necessary because there had to be legislation and 10 Sep 2021
Workers Rights Parents Urged To Support Striking School Secretaries People Before Profit Cllr Adrienne Wallace has appealed to parents and workers alike to support local School Secretaries ahead of their strike on Wednesday. In a statement she said: “For 10 Sep 2021
Housing People Before Profit- Solidarity Outline Priority Issues For Upcoming Dáil Term At Think In Housing, Climate, and Workers’ rights, pay and conditions to be priority issues At the groups Think In ahead of the upcoming Dáil term, People Before Profit- Solidarity outlined the issues 10 Sep 2021
Education Points Race Should Be Abolished Restricting access to Higher Education makes no sense as skills and labour shortages increase. Rise in CAO points requirements for courses confirms need for open access to Higher and Further 9 Sep 2021
Health Carroll Puts Healthcare Pay On The Stormont Agenda Speaking following a meeting of the Health Committee today, PBP MLA Gerry Carroll said he was ‘disappointed’ that the committee did not vote on his proposal to oppose the 3% 9 Sep 2021
Education Ireland Needs To Move To Open Access Model For Further And Higher Education Higher Education Minister’s “belated enlightenment” a positive, but leaving cert abolition urgently needed People Before Profit TD and spokesperson on Education Richard Boyd Barrett has said that a fundamental 9 Sep 2021
Migrant Rights Dup Comments Show Hypocrisy Of Establishment On Afghanistan People Before Profit call out the hypocrisy of the establishment on contributing to the crisis in Afghanistan. As the news about the plight of Afghan people continues to arrive, it 8 Sep 2021
News RIP Terrence Mcdonough People Before Profit members are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Terrence McDonough. He was a professor of Economics in NUI Galway, where he developed a consistent body 8 Sep 2021
News Calls For Information Commissioner To Investigate Alleged Breaches Of The Law In Ministerial Text Scandal People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has written to the Information Commissioner (see notes), Peter Tyndall, asking him to investigate whether Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney TD breached the 3 Sep 2021