Health Calls For Radical Measure As Response To Nursing Homes Deaths TD urges Dáil Covid committee report to make radical demands in recommendations The catastrophic failure to protect elderly people in nursing homes during the Covid crisis will be the subject 28 Jul 2020
Health Government Misrepresenting Residential Tenancies & Valuations Bill Government misrepresenting Residential Tenancies & Valuations Bill as “extending” protection when effect will be to remove protections for many Passage of new Residential Tenancies Bill will open door to more 28 Jul 2020
Health Government Double-Standards, Dishonesty And Inconsistency Government double-standards, dishonesty and inconsistency on travel advice and the PUP is staggering and fatally undermining social solidarity and the principle of “we are all in it together” Government’s 28 Jul 2020
Health Arts, Music, Live Entertainment And Taxi Workers- All Left Hung Out To Dry By July Stimulus People Before Profit Calls on Government to Provide Supports for these Workers who have been “Hung Out to Dry” People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has called on the 28 Jul 2020
News Carroll: “New Executive Bill Makes Future Stormont Scandals More Likely” As the Stormont Executive prepares to pass the latest Executive Functions Bill, MLA Gerry Carroll blasts the move as an attack on accountability: “The RHI scandal brought the last Executive 28 Jul 2020
Austerity July Stimulus Contains Little For Workers The Government’s stimulus package has all the hallmarks of a mindset shaped by decades of neoliberalism. One small but symbolic measure typifies the attitude. If you can spend €625 24 Jul 2020
Workers Rights Government Shafts Debenhams Workers Last night the government gutted a Solidarity-People Before Profit motion in support of the Debenhams workers. The motion called on the government to: “notify the liquidators in Debenhams that the 24 Jul 2020
Austerity Plan To Cut Pandemic Payment – Is “Austerity Not Stimulus” Plan to cut pandemic payment – is “austerity not stimulus” – measures punishing low paid and hardest hit workers Urgently needed investment and additional spending in Health, Childcare and vital services absent 24 Jul 2020
Health Taxi Representative Groups To Give Evidence At Covid Committee Tomorrow Media Conference at gates of Dáil at 11.40am before start of committee Tomorrow (24/07/2020) the Dáil Covid Committee will hear testimony from taxi groups about the major 24 Jul 2020