Labour Social Protection spokesperson Ged Nash has called on the Minister for Social Protection to explain the reasons for the major delays people are encountering in illness benefit payments. Sen. Nash said: “My own office, and those of many of my Labour colleagues have been inundated over the last week with calls from constituents about…

Labour Party Education spokesperson, Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has said that the new Minister for Education, Joe McHugh, needs to rule out student loan schemes.  Senator Ó Ríordáin said: “The Government has been sitting on the report carried out by Peter Cassells into the future of higher education funding for months now. Three options were…

Labour Party Leader and Foreign Affairs spokesperson Brendan Howlin TD has called on the Tánaiste to seek answers from Saudi Arabia about what happened the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Deputy Howlin said: “There have been shocking allegations concerned a prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey and has not been…

I am always delighted to speak at events hosted by Labour Women. Labour Women is one of the dynamic core sections of the Party. It plays an important role in connecting Party members across the country and providing Party women with ways to advance issues of shared concern. Issues like: pay inequality, Reproductive health and…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin has said the loss of guaranteed support from two TDs in the last fortnight has destabilised the Government and that now is the time for a general election. Deputy Howlin said: “When this Government was formed in May 2016, it was already inherently unstable. With Fianna Fáil abstaining, the Government…

Labour Dáil Communications spokesperson Seán Sherlock TD has said the National Broadband Plan is now in chaos, and that the Smyth review announced by the Taoiseach is a smokescreen for the decisions and mistakes made over the last two years that have imperiled the plan. Deputy Sherlock said: “The National Broadband plan has been in…

Deputy Penrose stated in response to the increase of the special 9% rate of VAT to 13.5% that the impact of same will be clearly felt in rural based hotels and rural pubs who have restaurants which allowed them to sell food on the premises. Speaking today Deputy Penrose said: “I have been contacted by…

There was much fanfare from Fianna Fáil that the budget this week was going to be a Housing Budget. It wasn’t. The amount of extra money announced was minuscule in the context of what is needed and most of it is directed towards landlords and developers rather than those who need homes. It falls so…