Labour Education Spokesperson Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has called on the Department of Education to suspend the requirement on SNAs to work the additional 72 hours under the Public Service Pay Agreement during the Covid crisis. Deputy Ó Ríordáin was speaking after a letter was sent from the Department of Education to schools outlining that the…

Labour Party leader Alan Kelly will be available to speak to the media on the Leinster House Plinth at 12pm on the Woulfe appointment process. What: Labour doorstep with Alan Kelly TD Where: Leinster House plinth. When: 12pm, Friday 13th November ENDS

It is not believable that the Taoiseach was not informed of Judge applicants or was Cabinet misled? Did Minister for Justice discuss names for Cabinet in advance  with Tánaiste? Was position held vacant for months for the sitting Attorney General? The previous Attorney General sat on the JAAB up until June 27th. Following the revelation…

Labour Spokesperson on Higher Education, Senator Annie Hoey is calling on the Minister for Health and the HSE to end the practice of unpaid work by student nurses in hospitals across the country. Senator Hoey said: “Since my election to Seanad Eireann, I have raised at every opportunity with the Minister for Health the issue…

Central Bank has not done a single enforcement action for a breach of the Consumer Protection Code in over 4 years, outside of the Tracker Scandal. From 2006 to 2016, the Central Bank completed 26 enforcement actions for breaches of the Code, with numbers falling off a cliff after this. Consumer Protection Code is the…

The Tánaiste has signalled the Government’s intention to support the Labour Party and Labour Youth’s Born Here Belong Here campaign for the reintroduction of birth right citizenship after Labour Leader Alan Kelly raised the issue at Leader’s Questions. Speaking at Leaders Questions, Deputy Kelly said: “The 27th Amendment was brought forward in 2004 by Fianna…

Transport Minister must immediately address this Airport testing capacity issues are a direct result of Government dithering and delaying according to Labour Transport Spokesperson Duncan Smith who said that Transport Minister Eamon Ryan must immediately address the issue. Deputy Smith was speaking after the Dáil was told that there is no guarantee that there will…

Eviction ban needs to be extended until at least March  400 cost rental units announced in the Budget insufficient  The Government’s paltry commitment to cost rental will not solve the rental crisis according to Labour Housing Spokesperson, Senator Rebecca Moynihan who said the State need to build on public land.   Senator Moynihan was speaking…