Responding to comments made by an Taoiseach yesterday in relation to updated Housing for All targets, Labour housing spokesperson Rebecca Moynihan said the Taoiseach is plucking figures from his head without any basis in reality. Senator Moynihan said an updated assessment is needed of what Ireland’s potential housing requirement is, coupled with a pathway to…

Labour Party TD for Cork East, Seán Sherlock has called for the rapid expansion of a paramedic treatment pilot scheme and for the fast tracking of the building works at Mallow General Hospital in order to relieve severe overcrowding pressures on Cork hospitals. Deputy Sherlock said: “Level two hospitals such as Mallow and Ennis have…

Trolley crisis causing serious damage to health workers’ physical and mental health Labour health spokesperson Duncan Smith TD has this weekend criticised the Government for the lack of any real community care options for people presenting to Accident and Emergency Departments and said the persistent overcrowding in hospitals is causing serious damage to nurses, midwives,…

Labour housing spokesperson Rebecca Moynihan has said the sharp increase of 27% in people living in homelessness in the month of November means an emergency focus is needed to combat yet another deplorable record set by the Minister for Housing and his Government. Senator Moynihan said: “It is absolutely deplorable that homelessness still breaking all…

Speaking to mark Nollaig na mBan, Labour Party leader, Deputy Ivana Bacik has called upon Government to commit to holding a referendum on equality and care in 2023, based upon the recommendations in the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, ‘Unfinished Democracy’, published in December 2022. Chaired by Ivana Bacik TD, the cross-party…

Labour health spokesperson Duncan Smith has described the record numbers of people waiting to be admitted into hospital as calamitous yet entirely predictable. Deputy Smith said: “It is genuinely hard to believe overcrowding is worse now than during the once in a lifetime pandemic. However, here we are, with frontline health services in crisis all…