Labour’s climate spokesperson Senator Rebecca Moynihan has today expressed her deep concern at the revelations that numerous public bodies, state agencies, local authorities and regulators have admitted failing to make mandatory payments to the Climate Action Fund to offset their air travel emissions. Senator Moynihan said: “This is a shocking failure of government. In 2020,…

Landmark judgement has implications of thousands of workers in this country. State must legislate to ensure employment status is clear cut. Labour workers’ rights spokesperson Marie Sherlock has described the ruling that Dominos pizza drivers were employees, not contractors, in the Supereme Court as a landmark moment on bogus self employment. Senator Sherlock said: “This…

Labour leader and housing spokesperson Ivana Bacik has urged Minister O’Brien to detail his plan to address the chronic labour shortage in construction that is delaying the building of homes.  Deputy Bacik said: “A failure to develop a coherent framework around apprentices, including a fair wage, has led us to a massive shortage in construction…

Supports should be damage tested as opposed to means tested Photo-ops will not pay bills next week Labour Party Cllr John Maher has called on the Fianna Fáil / Fine Gael / Green Coalition to introduce immediate supports for those affected by floodwaters caused by Storm Babet. Cllr Maher said “I believe the supports should…

Push for return to office apparent in new data Labour workers’ rights spokesperson Marie Sherlock has called out the Government for dragging its heels on remote work legislation and for facilitating business to roll back the clock on flexible and remote working. She was responding to research published by Dublin Chamber showing that over half…

Labour leader and housing spokesperson Ivana Bacik has urged Government to develop a winter homelessness plan to tackle the massive increase in homelessness that has resulted since the lifting of the eviction ban. Deputy Bacik said: “Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have utterly failed to grasp the crisis in housing. Month on month, we see…

Speaking during Leaders’ Questions, Labour leader Ivana Bacik said Government seems to have thrown in the towel on tackling the health service. Deputy Bacik said: “Responding to my questioning during Leaders’ Questions today, the Tánaiste responded as if he was a by-stander in the health crisis. You’d almost forget that Fianna Fáil are holding the…

Déjà vu from five years ago Under questioning from Labour’s Alan Kelly in the Public Accounts Committee, the Children’s Hospital Board essentially confirmed that the project would run to over €2 billion. Deputy Kelly said: “I was met with stoney silence from witnesses in the Committee today when I put it to them that this…