Labour Cork City Rep demands additional State Aid request to be revealed. The sod was turned on the project in 2016 by former Taoiseach Enda Kenny but no building progress of any kind has taken place since, but Exchequer commitments have grown to €57 million. Labour’s Cork City South East Representative Peter Horgan has called…

Labour’s enterprise spokesperson Deputy Ged Nash has spoken with PayPal Executives this afternoon as the company has revealed it is considering letting 205 staff go, across their remote working (Dundalk) and Blanchardstown operations. This latest development comes on top of a spate of redundancies across the business in Ireland in recent years. Labour’s Louth TD…

Labour TD for Tipperary and Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee member Alan Kelly said: “I can’t fathom why it took this long to get this information regarding these redundancy packages. When RTÉ came before the Public Accounts Committee, we repeatedly asked about and interogated these redundancies. “It seems that the information was within the management team…

Labour’s Further Education spokesperson Senator Annie Hoey has expressed deep concern over the shocking decision by one of Dublin’s largest private student landlords, Hines, to extend lease lengths for the 2024-2025 academic year. Under this controversial move, students are now compelled to commit to a 51-week tenancy, a staggering 10 weeks longer than the standard…

Commenting on the publication today by RTÉ today of the McCann Fitzgerald report into voluntary exit programme, Labour media spokesperson Marie Sherlock said the revelations today are yet another shocking example of an upstairs downstairs culture within the organisation. Senator Sherlock said: “There was an appalling situation where the former CFO of RTÉ was representing…

Labour’s Justice Spokesperson Aodhán Ó Riordáin TD was speaking today in the Dáil during the Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022. Deputy Ó Riordáin said “The prevailing policy of criminalisation disproportionately impacts the poor and less powerful. It dehumanises and denigrates those grappling with addiction. We must recognise that addiction is a complex issue,…

INMO report 12,132 patients, including 278 children, went without a hospital bed this January Ireland to have a deficit of 49,000 nurses by 2041 Questioning Minister Eamon Ryan during Leaders’ Questions today, Labour leader Ivana Bacik demanded an end to the HSE recruitment freeze. Deputy Bacik said: “Minister Ryan and his Cabinet colleagues have their…

Distorted housing market now means that workers on single or combined income of €100,000 cannot afford homes in two thirds of Dublin postcodes. Growing inequality of power within workplaces in how workers are been managed, monitored and remunerated at work. Government must legislate to protect workers. Best bulwark against feeling of frustration among workers, against…