Health Carroll Slams Executive Incompetence Over Christmas Travel “Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Executive’s refusal to act on medical advice until it’s too late has worsened the crisis and wreacked further devastation on workers 21 Dec 2020
Workers Rights Plea To Education Minister To Shut Schools Early And For Longer Repeated Rising transmission rates and growing evidence on role of schools cited Demands that online resources are allocated for vulnerable students and families Following a packed zoom meeting on Wednesday 16 17 Dec 2020
Health National Schools Closure Highlights Wider Issues On Schools And Covid Concerns expressed that Covid numbers in schools may be underestimated People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith has reiterated concerns around Covid transmission in schools. The TD had called on the 11 Dec 2020
Health Pay The Student Nurses This week Government TDs from Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and the Greens voted down a Solidarity- People Before Profit proposal. Here is a shortened version of the resolution: That Dáil 11 Dec 2020
Health “The Zero Covid Strategy Would Keep Us Safer” Claims Cllr Wallace At last month’s Carlow MD Meeting People Before Profit cllr Adrienne Wallace brought forward a motion that called on the government to introduce a zero Covid strategy that aims 10 Dec 2020
Health Richard Boyd Barrett Calls Out Bizarre And Desperate Spinning Of Student Nurses’ Issue By Taoiseach At Leaders’ Questions People Before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, calls out bizarre and desperate spinning of student nurses’ issue by Taoiseach at Leaders’ Questions Dún Laoghaire TD flabbergasted by Taoiseach’s suggestion 9 Dec 2020
Health Capitalism, Covid 19 And The Race For A Vaccine With the real prospect of three different vaccines for Covid-19 on the horizon, there are many questions that arise. Is the fast development of these vaccines a vindication of profit-driven 7 Dec 2020
Health Local TDs Slammed For Voting Against Pay For Student Nurses Solidarity-People Before Profit brought forward a Dáil motion calling on the government to pay student nurses who are working on the frontline. The practice of unpaid placements for these students 3 Dec 2020
Health TD To Raise Student Nurses, Midwives And Public Health Doctors’ Pay Issue TD to raise student nurses, midwives and public health doctors’ pay issue at Dáil Health Select Committee meeting today TD has written to Committee Clerk to invite student nurses to 2 Dec 2020