Housing Homelessness- The Mask Slips From Fine Gael Snobs It began when Varadkar told his Fine Gael members that Irish homelessness was ‘low by international standards’. It was followed up by a concerted campaign by state officials attacking the 16 Nov 2017
Housing Self Regulation Say Fine Gael – The Landlord’s Party Six members of the 19 government Ministers are landlords. So too are 36% of the entire Fine Gael cohort of TDs. No wonder they do not want to do anything 8 Nov 2017
Housing Tracker Mortgage Scandal- Banks Should Be Publically Run The Irish banks are repeat criminal offenders. Back in the 1980’s, the banks helped thousands of wealthy customers to avoid their taxes in what became known as the DIRT 24 Oct 2017
Housing Budget 2018- No Comfort From Crumbs Paschal Donohoe promised a “budget for everyone”. Leo Varadkar proclaimed a small but significant step forward “for our country”. The reality was yet another conservative budget that left the vulnerable 11 Oct 2017
Health People Before Profit Solidarity Pre-Budget Statement Major increased investment in public services and improved workers incomes possible if fair taxes are paid on profits and on wealth. Today, at a press conference in Dublin, People Before 6 Oct 2017
Housing Why Do Landlords Make Up One Quarter Of Dail Eireann 42 of the 158 Dail deputies are landlords, representing 26{239d30f98c9f1658382d6173e80453fa40137ba7d875cc88a34cc6d8ea475d43} of elected representatives. In the two main establishment parties the figure are even higher. 36{239d30f98c9f1658382d6173e80453fa40137ba7d875cc88a34cc6d8ea475d43} of Fine Gael 26 Sep 2017
News People Before Profit Introduce Bill To Insert Right To Housing In Constitution People Before Profit is bringing a bill before the Dail to hold a referendum to insert a new article into the constitution obliging the state to guarantee to housing. Our 19 Sep 2017
Housing Political Ideology Is Preventing Housing Crisis From Being Solved This last week has seen the stark reality of the homelessness crisis hit home in Ireland. Three homeless people were found dead in the country, in Cork, Dublin and Kildare. 4 Sep 2017
Housing Once In A Hundred Years? The Meaning Of The North West Flooding Disaster John Molyneux, Author of the People Before Profit pamphlet, Profit versus the Environment, comments on the Donegal storms. ‘A once in a hundred years event’ was how Met Eireann described 30 Aug 2017