Forced rebanking has no place in Irish banking  Ged Nash TD, Labour Party Finance Spokesperson has called on the Central Bank to clarify if Ulster Bank has met the criteria set out in the Central Banks Consumer Protection Code on freezing and closing accounts. Ulster Bank are expected to begin freezing thousands of active accounts from…

• Manner of redundancy notice appears to amount to constructive dismissal Labour spokesperson on workers’ rights, Senator Marie Sherlock has said Twitter appears to be riding roughshod over Irish labour laws and said the manner of redundancy notices dished out to workers appear to amount to constructive dismissal. Senator Sherlock said: “Last week, we understand…

Labour health and disability spokesperson Duncan Smith has today (Wednesday, 9th November) demanded real action from the Government to make sure people with long Covid don’t face discrimination, cuts in pay and that specialised long-Covid clinics are set up in communities across the country. Speaking on a Dail motion on long-Covid, Deputy Smith said: “The…

Government must end time wasting and provide certainty to workers Dealing with a Right to Flexible Work in the Work Life Balance Bill must provide certainty for workers Responding to the announcement by Minister Roderic O’Gorman during the discussion of government’s Work Life Balance Bill in Committee today, Labour employment spokesperson Marie Sherlock welcomed the…

Labour justice spokesperson Aodhan Ó Ríordáin has called on the Minister for Justice to make spiking a specific criminal offence under the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022. In seeking to make amendments to the Bill during Dáil committee stage today, Deputy Ó Ríordáin said we need a specific offence of spiking given the recently…

HIQA must immediately inspect worst hit hospitals Labour health spokesperson, Duncan Smith has warned that the public health service is in danger of complete collapse if the current trolley crisis is not resolved, care in the community is not prioritised and demanded that the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) immediately inspects hospitals where patient…

Framework must pivot towards growth of exporting indigenous companies Opposition parties must be briefed on tech job losses Labour enterprise spokesperson Ged Nash has today warned that unless a new national industrial policy framework prioritised the scaling up of indigenous Irish enterprise, Ireland will continue to be exposed to a dangerous and excessive reliance on…

Labour spokesperson for Transport, Duncan Smith has today (Tuesday 8th November) described the fines imposed by the National Transport Authority (NTA) on Go Ahead and Dublin as eye-watering and said the fines underscore systemic failures across the public transport system. In response to questioning from Deputy Smith at the Oireachtas Transport Committee the NTA confirmed…