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CO2 monitor measures neraly twice the level seen outdoors, in enclosed environments this measurement can be a proxy for the liklihood pathogens in the air.

PBP accuse government of ignoring importance of ventilation in fight against Covid

Clean air in workplaces essential in the fight against Covid-19. In an effort to tacle the virus People Before Profit will introduct its Ventilation Bill to the Dáil on Wednesday with the goal of placing the onus on employers to ensure adequate airquality in workplaces and give employees the power to demand workplace inspections.

People Before Profit members holding a stall on the need to raise the minimum wage to tackle rising living costs.

An unlivable minimum wage is just state-sanctioned poverty.

PBP propose minimum wage of €15 an hour to provide a ‘lasting dividend to frontline workers’. The rumoured increase of the Minimum wage to €10.50 in tomorrow’s budget has been criticised as “totally inadequate” and amount to “a continuation of state-sanctioned poverty”by Limerick People Before Profit spokesperson Ruairí Fahy as Ireland has the second highest levels of low wage workers in the OECD with 23% of workers earning less than 2 thirds of the median wage, less than €12 an hour.

Former student accommodation less than 200m from Mary Immaculate College, borded up and empty.

Decades of failed policies leaves students homeless

As thousands of students arrive back to college without any place to stay as the first term commences, People Before Profit Limerick are calling for urgent action to address what they are calling a student housing crisis.

Former Ardhu hotel, closed in 2016, was bought for over €6 million in 2018 but still lies empty 3 years later.

Student accommodation availability causing massive issue for students as return to college approaches

Students are being forced to live in hotels and on couches after decades of failed government policy on housing leaves apartments and houses empty as speculators see 10% returns for just holding a home as an asset.

Illustration of gas turbines that could be built on the site if planning permission is granted

Limerick is quickly becoming the pollution capital of Ireland

The Shannon LNG planning application to build an LNG terminal, gas burning turbine and data-centre risks making Limerick and the Midwest Ireland's pollution capital, according to Limerick People Before Profit. The party has criticised the plans as “expanding climate damaging industries, at a time when the country has declared a climate emergency”