News Fuel Price Protests Respond to Government Inaction: We Need Energy Price Caps & Free Public Transport Now People Before Profit says today’s fuel price protests are response to Government inaction. We call for price caps on energy and free public transport. 7 Apr 2026
News Gerry Carroll’s People's Housing Bill: the Tenant Protections Stormont Refuses to Deliver "Rents in Belfast have risen by more than 50% over the past five years. Private tenants are increasingly expected to pay eyewatering sums for homes that are cramped, in a poor state of disrepair or riddled with mould." We need this passed now. 24 Mar 2026
News Denman Rooke Selected As People Before Profit Candidate for Galway West By-Election Offers radical alternative on housing and the cost of living. Will oppose militarisation and defend neutrality. By-election is opportunity for left cooperation to defeat Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil. 24 Feb 2026
News Richard Boyd Barrett Slams Government for ‘Ramming Through’ Residential Tenancies Bill Bill will enable widespread rent increases, drive more into homelessness. Emergency protest at 5.30pm today, Wednesday, at Leinster House on Kildare Street. 11 Feb 2026
News A New Law To Raise Rents A new reason for eviction: every time tenants change rents can be reset to market levels... Our rents are 30% higher than the EU average. In Dublin's average rent is now 50% of the after tax income of the average worker. The most unaffordable rents in Europe will be even more unaffordable. 7 Feb 2026
News 5,000 children spent Christmas in emergency accommodation Richard Boyd Barrett: it’s Government’s ‘eternal shame’ that more than 5,000 children were in emergency accommodation. Warns Residential Tenancies Bill will ‘turbo charge’ rent increases. Calls for meaningful rent controls and ‘transformational’ state construction company to end housing crisis. 30 Jan 2026
News Corporations Should Not Make Money Off Suing The State '[A] parallel justice system accessible only by corporations for corporations to sue states if they intervene and interfere with their “legitimate” expectation of making profits. That is what this is about. We should be having a referendum ... this could truly be catastrophic.' 11 Dec 2025
News 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
News People Before Profit Councillors To Vote Against Dublin City Council’s Budget Over Planned Rent Hikes Will join tenants’ protest at City Hall on 24 November 21 Nov 2025
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