Speaking on a panel at the Ireland’s Future conference in Belfast today, Labour Leader Ivana Bacik TD has urged all supporters of reunification to engage now in preparations for a referendum on unity. Deputy Bacik will highlight the Labour Party’s position paper on a united Ireland and called on other political groupings to engage in…

Labour MEP elect for Dublin Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has urged all Irish MEPs to back the call for a Housing Commissioner. Ó Ríordáin said: “Housing is the greatest civil rights issue of our time and European institutions must take decisive action in tackling this escalating crisis. “Ireland needs to be on the front foot with…

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has called on Government to take action now to end the sub-minimum wages for workers under 20 years of age. Since 1 January 2024, the national minimum wage is €12.70 per hour. However, young people continue to be discriminated against when it comes to pay rates. Anyone working under the age…

Labour’s transport spokesperson Duncan Smith TD has called for a complete ban on sharing images from road traffic accidents, citing the need to protect victims and their families from the distress and intrusion of non-consensual recordings. The Labour Party’s “Protection of Accident Victims from Non-Consensual Recording of Images Bill 2022” is set to be debated…

Labour Leader and Housing Spokesperson Ivana Bacik TD has criticised the Government’s decision to guillotine the Planning and Development Bill 2023. Deputy Bacik said, “It is deeply concerning to see that the Government is proposing to push its much-criticised Planning and Development Bill through both Houses before the Summer break. This is the third biggest…

Ged Nash, Labour Spokesperson on Finance, Public Expenditure & Reform and Louth TD, says that constituents with disabilities have expressed serious concern about the looming strike by SIPTU members who work for the National Advocacy Service (NAS). “Some vulnerable constituents have expressed serious concern over the impact that a strike by workers in NAS will have on…

Labour’s Dublin MEP candidate, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD, today dismissed the contrived row between Government parties on climate as “electoral showboating, that will only undermine support for real action on climate.” “The contrived row in the past 24 hours between the three Government parties on climate action will be seen by voters for what it…

Labour’s Eurocandidate for Ireland South, Niamh Hourigan has today warned that a vote for Fine Gael is unequivocally a vote for Ursula Von Der Leyen. Niamh Hourigan said, “Casting a ballot for Fine Gael in the European elections on Friday means endorsing Ursula Von Der Leyen’s military-driven and insular approach to Europe. Her response to…