Health “Never going back” PBP councillors Calls for one-tier health system People Before Profit councillors across Ireland, North and South of the border, have called for the continuation and expansion of 32 county single tier health system post Covid 19. They 20 Apr 2020
Health CBD Medication Patients Left Out CBD medication patients left out of Government Covid-19 collection and delivery arrangement Gino Kenny TD says “It is illogical to leave these families out of the new arrangement” On the 20 Apr 2020
Austerity The Roots of the Nursing Home Tragedy There is a tragedy unfolding in Ireland’s nursing homes. Some of it arises from the natural frailty that grows with age. But some of the deaths from Covid-19 were 18 Apr 2020
Transport Domestic Abuse Amid COVID-19 Prior to the coronavirus pandemic domestic abuse was a huge social issue effecting thousands of women and children in homes across our communities in Ireland. In times of crisis, such 17 Apr 2020
Transport List of Questions on Covid 19 Submitted by People Before Profit People Before Profit last week submitted a number of parliamentary questions to the government on and number of Covid 19 related issues and their Covid 19 response. Answers from relevant 17 Apr 2020
Workers Rights The Snobs & The Crooks: Together At Last After two months of theatrics, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are finally forging ahead to form a government based on a “joint framework”. They have spent the guts of 100 16 Apr 2020
Health Call On Government To Make Up Any Shortfall In Council Funding As A Result Of Covid Crisis People Before Profit call on government to make up any shortfall in Council funding as a result of Covid crisis In a statement this afternoon People Before Profit councillors and 16 Apr 2020
Health TDs To Question Government On Lack Of Capacity And Planning In Health Service, The Nursing Home Fiasco And Upholding Workers Rights In Covid 19 Emergency Fianna Fail/Fine Gael new political promises – not credible, given severe damage inflicted on Public Health Service by these parties since crisis of 2008 Solidarity- People Before Profit TDs to 16 Apr 2020
Health April 16 2020: The Healthcare Crisis In Our Nursing Homes Brid Smith TD, Gerry Carrol MLA and Cllr. Tina MacVeigh Nearly half of all deaths from Covid-19 have been in nursing homes. That figure may even be an underestimate as 16 Apr 2020