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A recent report entitled Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead, written by Richard Hill (Professor at Griffith University, Australia) and Gideon Polya (Biochemist at Trobe University, Australia), deals squarely with the human cost of what is going on in Gaza. They point out that given the
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Minister Eamon Ryan recently said that the introduction of Fare Free Public Transport (FFPT) would result in an increase in unnecessary journeys. An Ernst & Young report was then wheeled out to give support to the claim that FFPT would not result in a major reduction in car usage. Bríd
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Bríd Smith TD explains why buying carbon credits for missing targets is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ireland’s climate action fraud. The news that Ireland will buy carbon credits worth up to €3 million from Slovakia to make up for missing targets in 2021
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The government is seeking to raise the state pension age, claiming that the fact that people are living longer is creating a “Pension Time Bomb”. Bríd Smith TD dismantles this claim and argues that the attack on the retirement age is part of the wider attack on all workers. The
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The government’s latest Climate Action Bill may pacify some, but Bríd Smith argues the legislation goes nowhere near far enough to tackle the fossil fuel industries and growth-addicted economy at the heart of our climate crisis. To much fanfare, PR spin and grand rhetoric, the Government have unveiled
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A year on from an historic election, where Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael could only muster 44% of the vote between them, Bríd Smith TD looks back at some of the crises the coalition government has staggered through, highlighting the hope embodied in the Debenhams struggle and the Black Lives
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As Eamon Ryan’s Climate Action Bill is due to go before the Dáil, Bríd Smith TD exposes its multiple weaknesses and argues that it will do very little to tackle the planet’s greatest crisis. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill (the Climate Bill) was supposed to
Covid-19
As a Dáil report calls for an inquiry into COVID-19 in nursing homes, why did 56% of all deaths (985 people) in the first wave came from a group that makes up just 0.65% of the population? Bríd Smith TD argues that it is the for-profit system
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In her own words, People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith defends her recent criticisms of a High Court ruling which have generated a media flurry. There was a lot of mock outrage from the great and good, as well as those in the legal professions, about comments I made recently.
Covid-19
TD Brid Smith makes the case for putting health before profit by moving beyond the markets which have actively hampered our ability to obtain lifesaving PPE. It beggars belief that in 2020 we are witnessing a severe shortage of very basic equipment to assist health workers in the war against
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Half of all COVID-19 deaths so far in Ireland were residents in nursing homes. North and South, a reliance on private nursing homes & the deprioritisation of elderly care have worsened the impact of COVID-19 for the elderly. At the time of writing there were 119 reported clusters
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Leo Varadkar says he cares about the environment. But his government is currently using dirty tricks to block People Before Profit’s Climate Emergency Bill. Bríd Smith TD explains the background to this story, and how we can stop Fine Gael in their tracks. After the recent local elections, Leo