What is in the People Before Profit-Solidarity manifesto?

People Before Profit-Solidarity is the latest party to publish its general election manifesto, with the left-wing party outlining its key campaign points today.

So, what are they, and what benefits does the party say they will bring you?

Housing

* Use the Apple tax money to establish a State construction company, which PBP-S says could build 30,000 social homes and 5,000 affordable homes per year

* Remove income limits for public housing

* Use vacant public buildings to accommodate homeless Irish people and asylum seekers

* Increase the renters tax credit to €3,000 next year

* Develop an NCT-style system of certification to ensure minimum standards in the private rental sector

* Introduce a rent freeze and re-instate the Covid pandemic-era eviction ban

* Ensure the State provides 100% redress for apartments and duplexes with defects, and for homes with defective blocks

* Ban "vulture funds" and short-term letting such as Airbnb

* Cap mortgage interest rates at 3% and extend the mortgage to rent scheme

* Establish an independent National Traveller Housing Agency to oversee "culturally appropriate Traveller accommodation"

* Abolish the Household Property Tax and replace it with a Non-Principal Private Residence Tax

Cost of living and taxes

* Cap food prices

* Cut electricity bills by returning ESB to a not-for-profit company

* Abolish the Universal Social Charge for workers earning less than €100,000 per year

* The USC proposal will be paid for by the introduction of a multi-millionaire's tax

* Introduce a €15 an hour living wage, as well as refundable tax credits to people on lower incomes

* Raise the pension rate to €300 per week

* Extend fuel allowance eligibility to all pensioners and anyone in receipt of the working family payment and carers allowance

* Introduce four new tax bands on top earners to raise €4bn next year

* Introduce higher PRSI rates for employers to raise over €3bn next year

* Raise corporation tax to 20% for large corporations and close what PBP-S says are "tax avoidance loopholes". The party says this would raise €20bn next year

Workers' rights

* The introduction of the choice of a four-day week without the loss of pay

* Increase the number of holidays workers receive to 30 days, and introduce two new bank holidays

* Mandatory pension schemes for all jobs, and the State pension to be paid from the age of 65

* Mandatory maternity and paternity pay

* Full employment rights for migrant workers, including undocumented workers

* Financial penalties for companies over-reliant on temporary contracts, and the ending of "bogus self-employment" roles

Education

* Abolish all primary and second level school charges

* Give school pupils free school books, uniforms and school meals

* Ban voluntary contribution requests from schools

* Double the capitation grant for primary schools

* Introduce a 15:1 teacher-pupil ratio

* Increase the number of special needs assistants by 2,000 and special education teachers by 1,000

* Ensure every school has an autism class

* Double funding for DEIS schools

* End subsidies to private schools

* End church control of education

* Abolish all college and university fees

* Increase mental health supports on campuses to ensure there is one counsellor for every 1,000 students

* Provide 30,000 more affordable student beds by 2029

Childcare

* End private childcare fees

* Establish a public, taxpayer-funded National Childcare Service to provide free childcare for any family or household who needs it

* Invest €1.5bn to expand the number of childcare places, including the use of suitable State-owned buildings

* Free pre-school meals for all children

* Extend paid parental leave and merge it with maternity and paternity leave so that every parent is guaranteed the right to 12 months paid leave in the first two years of a child's life

Health

* End the two-tier health system and replace it with a single tier entirely public system

* Introduce free primary care for all

* Reverse the long-standing plan to centralise emergency departments in regions

* End charges and fees for prescriptions and hospital car parking

* Add 1,000 permanent acute beds and the necessary staffing to go with them

* End the recruitment embargo and the HSE's "pay and numbers strategy"

* Take private hospitals into public ownership

* Make the free contraception scheme universally accessible and introduce free hormone replacement therapy for all women who need it. PBP-S says this should include consultation fees and prescription charges

* Ensure transgender and non-binary people have access to the necessary publicly available, accessible and high quality healthcare services

* Create a sustainable funding model for children's hospice care

* Pay student nurses

Neutrality and international affairs

* Defend Ireland's neutrality and make Ireland a voice for peace on the world stage

* Reject any attempt to end the Triple Lock system. This system states that the Government is only allowed to send 12 or more Defence Forces personnel on foreign missions, including peacekeeping exercises, if the plan is signed off on by Government, by the Dáil and is mandated by the UN security council

* End the use of Shannon airport by the US military

* Withdraw Ireland from PESCO

* Withdraw from the Partnership for Peace which PBP-S says aligns Ireland with NATO

* Call for peace talks to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine

* Expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland

* Adopt a boycott, divestment and sanctions position in relation to Israel

* Stop the use of Irish air space by foreign airforces

* Pass the Occupied Territories Bill immediately

* Stop the Central Bank of Ireland from facilitating the sale of what PBP-S describe as Israeli war bonds

Young people

* Caps on the cost of student accommodation

* Abolish student fees

* Increased enforcement of employment rights, including an end to what PBP-S says is "bogus self-employment"

* End what PBP-S says is the "discriminatory" jobseekers allowance rate for people under the age of 25

* Bring an end to low pay for first and second year apprentices

* Increase funding for a public health educational campaign on drugs

* Move towards a national strategy to decriminalise drugs in Ireland.

Climate and transport

* End the carbon tax and replace it with a levy on "big polluters"

* Introduce a 50% windfall tax on profits of energy companies

* Invest €5bn in renewable energy

* Ban fossil fuel exploration

* Ban the introduction of any new data centres

* End the nitrates derogation

* Develop a national nature restoration plan

* Hold a referendum on inserting the rights of nature and right to a healthy environment into the Constitution

* Hold a referendum on keeping water services in public ownership

* End fares on all public transport to encourage the use of public transport

* Make €500m available for the rapid expansion of bus services

* Fast track all rail and infrastructure projects, and double the capital investment in public transport

Immigration

* Oppose all attacks on refugees and asylum seekers

* End deportations

* Oppose all forms of racism, including anti-Traveller racism

* Ensure international protection applicants are not homeless

* End Direct Provision

* Give asylum seekers the right to work

* Establish a right to family re-unification for immigrants who have spent time in Ireland

* Hold a referendum to repeal the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. This referendum would seek to allow all children born in Ireland the right to Irish citizenship