News – The Labour Party This comes as 9 Clinical Directors in CUH warn that patients will pay the price for the restrictions.   Labour Health spokesperson Marie Sherlock TD has written to Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to call for the publication of the legal basis for the new recruitment sanction controls which came…

News – The Labour Party Nine months after Grok scandal, victims still wait for Government action Labour’s Alan Kelly TDhas called on Government to support Labour’s legislation to tackle AI-generated sexual abuse imagery when it comes before the Dáil next Thursday. The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2026 would close…

News – The Labour PartyLabour TD for Kildare South Mark Wall said it is outrageous that toll fares would increase in January at a time when commuters are already under enormous financial strain. Deputy Wall said: “It beggars belief that the TII would be increasing fares when the cost of commuting is already through the…

News – The Labour PartyDublin Central TD Marie Sherlock has said the figures published by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) make a complete joke of Dublin City Council’s 2024 commitment to the north inner city. Deputy Sherlock said: “The figures show that, in 2026, a single postcode area, D1, has more emergency accommodation than…

News – The Labour Party Minister has no plan to get construction sector capacity 50,000 Labour housing spokesperson Conor Sheehan TD called out Government’s failure to deliver the homes needed at the scale needed. Following the publication of the latest housing completion figures, Deputy Sheehan said: “We are falling so far behind the scale of…

News – The Labour PartyLabour Senator Laura Harmon has today demanded that Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill explain why Cork University Hospital’s new surgical hub closed immediately after its official opening on 28 September following failed environmental testing. She called out the Minister after the Irish Examiner reported that fewer than 10 patients have attended…

News – The Labour PartyLabour enterprise spokesperson George Lawlor TD today called on Government to reverse its opposition to Labour’s remote working legislation following the launch of Our Rural Future 2026-2031. Responding to the plan, he challenged Ministers to explain how expanding rural working hubs squares with blocking stronger rights for the workers who could…

News – The Labour PartyLabour further and higher education spokesperson Senator Laura Harmon has called on Minister for Justice to urgently review refused visa applications from students in Gaza, following today’s High Court ruling that a student’s visa refusal should be overturned. Senator Harmon said: “This student should never have had to take a case…