Housing Government Policy Is Creating Homelessness- But We Could Fix It The latest homelessness figures are a shocking indictment of the government. Nearly 7,000 people are now homeless with 27% under 18 years old. The Central Statistics Office has published 11 Aug 2017
Workers Rights People Before Profit Statement On Belfast Violence People Before Profit councillor Matt Collins issued the following statement on violence in Belfast in the aftermath of Belfast City Council removing bonfire material. “The recent violence across Belfast in 9 Aug 2017
Housing The Greed That Fuels The Housing Crisis Ireland’s housing crisis is getting worse and the posh boys who run Fine Gael do not care. They worry only about their PR image. Last year, Environment Minister Simon 20 Jul 2017
Housing Kieran Allen Speech On Irish Unity Sinn Féin invited a number of parties to attend a conference on an ‘Agreed Ireland’ at the Waterfont in Belfast last weekend. People Before Profit sent along Kieran Allen as 27 Jun 2017
Housing TAKE BACK CLERY’S FROM THE PROPERTY SPECULATORS The treatment of the Clery’s staff is a dramatic illustration of the rot that lies at the heart of Irish society. The workers are the victims of successive government 16 Jun 2015
Housing RENTAL PROPERTY SUPPLY LOWEST IN A DECADE: RADICAL SOCIAL HOUSING PLAN NEEDED NOW In a statement People Before Profit spokesperson and general election candidate, Cllr Bríd Smith, has described the reports that rental property supply is the lowest it has been in a 11 May 2015
Housing Why Bus Workers are Right to Strike; Why Bus Workers are Right to Strike; The National Transport Authority tendering plan will decimate workers livelihoods and do nothing to improve public transport. Bus workers are absolutely right to 30 Apr 2015
Housing NEARLY A THIRD OF TDs ARE LANDLORDS – NO WONDER THERE IS NO RENT REGULATION People Before Profit activists in the Rathmines area of Dublin are helping to set up a Dublin Tenants Association. A launch meeting attended by Richard Boyd Barret TD, local councillor, 18 Feb 2015
Housing NOONAN’S TAX SUPPORTS TAX DODGE ADVISORS Minister of Finance, Michael Noonan, has stood over his appointment of the former HBSC boss Michael Geoghegan as the chair of the advisory board to NAMA. Geoghegan was the CEO 11 Feb 2015