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Action needed on insurance cost crisis

News – The Labour PartyLabour spokesperson on Tourism, Cllr Niall McNelis, says urgent action is needed to address the spiralling insurance costs impacting community events, including the setting up of group insurance schemes. It comes as a new survey from the State’s Public Participation Networks shows nearly half of community and voluntary groups around Ireland…

Labour Admin

11 September 2019

We need to see Harris’ winter health plan

News – The Labour PartyLabour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly TD, has called on the Minister for Health to publish the HSE Winter Initiative in light of worsening trolley numbers. Deputy Kelly said: “Analysing the trends from INMO Trolleywatch figures, the amount of people on trolleys looks to hit an unprecedented number of 10,000. “Excessive…

10 September 2019

Cllr Donoghue calls on Minister to tackle threat to arts and culture in Dublin

News – The Labour PartyResponding to the announcement the Bernard Shaw is set to close at the end of October. Newly elected Labour Party Councillor for the area Kevin Donoghue, has called on the Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan, to urgently establish a consultative forum to recommend ways to protect and revitalise Dublin’s famous arts and…

10 September 2019

Penrose calls for all sides in beef dispute to step back from the brink and hold talks

News – The Labour PartyLabour spokesperson on Agriculture, Willie Penrose TD, has urged all sides in the beef crisis to step back from the brink as the threat of an all-out shutdown of the industry looms. Deputy Penrose said: “The only way to resolve this dispute is through face to face negotiations. All sides need…

Labour Admin

10 September 2019

Photographs from Labour Party Away Day – open use

News – The Labour PartyA selection of photographs from the Labour Party Away Day are available at the link below for open use.  

Labour Trade Unionists
08 September 2019

Economic inequality is Ireland’s great weakness

News – The Labour Party‘Building an Equal Society’, opening address by Brendan Howlin TD To the Parliamentary Labour Party Away Day In Nano Nagle Centre, Cork. We believe in the fundamental equality of every person, and the right of every person to a decent standard of living. I believe that a great many people share this belief…

Labour Admin

08 September 2019

Housing and Homelessness crisis a shocking indictment of Government’s record- O’Sullivan

News – The Labour PartyThe most glaring example of inequality in Ireland today is that of the housing and homelessness crisis, with the Government still failing to deliver adequate affordable and social housing. That’s according to Labour Housing spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan, who says a new approach to the problem is needed. Speaking at the Labour…

Labour Admin

06 September 2019

Full estimates of Brexit job losses must be published

News – The Labour PartyResponding to the estimate that 10,000 jobs could be lost in the tourism and hospitality industries, the leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin TD, called on the government to publish their full estimates of all potential job losses across the economy, and to outline their plan to preserve jobs in…

Labour Admin

06 September 2019

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