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Labour Party presents new Front Bench in growing Parliamentary Party 

Labour will continue to fight for fairness, equality and the rights of working people. Labour leader Ivana Bacik TD has today announced the party’s new Front Bench parliamentary spokespersons. With a total of eleven TDs and two Senators elected to the Oireachtas, Bacik said that Labour will continue to campaign to build a fairer, more…

Ivana Bacik TD
07 February 2025

Housing policy needs more than a nip, tuck and a bit of botox – Sheehan

Responding to the Programme for Government, Labour Limerick TD Conor Sheehan said the lack of ambition or vision when it comes to housing is disgraceful. Speaking in the Dáil today, Deputy Sheehan said: “There’s been no shortage of spin and bluster from this Government when it comes to housing. Rather than charting a new way…

06 February 2025

Government must act now on Occupied Territories Bill

Labour’s Duncan Smith TD has condemned Donald Trump’s outrageous call to forcibly relocate the 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza and called for immediate action to pass the Occupied Territories Bill. Deputy Smith said: “For the United States, a supposed beacon of freedom and justice, its continued indifference to the plight of the Palestinian people is…

05 February 2025

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Lowry Government still trying to pull opposition speaking stroke

Labour whip Duncan Smith TD has urged Government to see sense and end the charade that Micheal Lowry and his Regional Group will be designated as a hybrid group for Dáil speaking rights. Smith said: “The latest proposal from Government is truly beyond belief. They are rewriting the very terms of engagement in the Dáil…

31 January 2025

Shameful row back on workplace progress must be stopped

Labour’s Marie Sherlock TD has called on the newly appointed Enterprise Minister to intervene in the proposed changes to civil servants working practices. Deputy Sherlock said: “There are two issues here: one, the somewhat unilateral decision to change workers terms and two, the decision to row back on progress in the workplace. “The public sector…

31 January 2025

Statement from Ged Nash TD on the announcement of 70 potential redundancies at Glen Dimplex in Dunleer

Deputy Ged Nash TD said: “The announcement at Glen Dimplex in Dunleer that 70 manufacturing jobs at the plant are at risk is a disaster for the workers and their families as well as the wider community in Dunleer and Mid-Louth. “It sounds the death knell for good manufacturing jobs at the Dunleer plant and…

30 January 2025

New Minister must address teacher shortage crisis

75% of schools report no applicants Labour’s Eoghan Kenny TD has slammed the government’s failure to address the teacher recruitment and retention crisis following stark new figures released this morning by the Principals and Deputy Principals Association. The survey found that 75% of schools had experienced no applicants for vacancies in the last six months….

30 January 2025

Baby Minister Bonanza would make boom-time Bertie blush

Each Minister of State costs at least €500,000 No objective justification for increased number of Ministers of State Labour’s Finance & Public Expenditure Ged Nash has said the creation of 23 Minister of State posts would make Bertie Ahern blush. Figures compiled by the Labour Party show each Minister of State costs at least €500,000….

29 January 2025

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