Corporate Landlords

People Before Profit's Denman Rooke 2026 Galway West By-Election

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

Clip of poster saying: Dáil Gates Kildare Street Wednesday 5:30pm RESIST THE RENT HIKE BILL

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

Occupation of O''Connell Bridge in 2018. Prominent placard reads 'Public Housing Not A Landlord State'

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

Image of children and parents in emergency accommodation with smiling Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris superimposed.

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

Protestors on Dame Street Dublin holding baloon letters saying STOP CETA.

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

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

Cllr.s Conor Reddy and Hazel De Nortúin of People Before Profit in front of Council Housing in Dolphin's Barn Dublin.

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

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

Paul Murphy's BER Bill Goes to Vote Next Week

Requires landlords to retrofit private rented accommodation by 2030. Councillor Conor Reddy says BER Bill would reduce the cost of living.

21 Nov 2025

Cllr.s Conor Reddy and Hazel De Nortúin of People Before Profit in front of Council Housing in Dolphin's Barn Dublin.

People Before Profit Oppose Dublin City Council Rent Hikes

“This is austerity by stealth. Council management are being forced to act like accountants because the State has walked away from its responsibility to fund public housing. "The Council’s job is to provide safe, affordable homes, not to claw money out of tenants to balance the books."

14 Nov 2025