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Labour welcomes pay rise for security workers

News – The Labour Party Collective bargaining delivering real results Labour’s workers’ rights spokesperson Senator Nessa Cosgrove has welcomed the confirmation that the minimum hourly rate for security workers in Ireland will rise from €14.50 to €15.41 from 22 July 2025. In response to a parliamentary question to Labour Finance Spokesperson Ged Nash TD, the…

17 July 2025

Time to deliver for women with endometriosis

News – The Labour Party Specialist centres seriously understaffed Patients still waiting for National Framework   Following a Dáil debate on women’s health this week, Labour’s Health Spokesperson Marie Sherlock TD has renewed calls for urgent action on endometriosis, criticising the Government’s repeated delays in delivering the promised National Endometriosis Framework and failure to properly…

17 July 2025

Harmon demands clarity on student fees

News – The Labour Party Government chaos on student fees Students left in the lurch again Labour’s Further and Higher Education Spokesperson Senator Laura Harmon has called on Government to immediately reverse its planned hike in student fees, after the Minister failed to provide clarity in the Seanad today. Labour is demanding the Government use…

17 July 2025

Labour seeks to ban Israeli war bond sales

News – The Labour Party Stop funding Israeli war effort Protect workers’ right to refuse Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Duncan Smith TD will tomorrow publish the Occupying Power (Securities and Handling of Settlement Goods) Bill 2025, which would ban the Central Bank of Ireland from preparing prospectuses for the sale of Israeli bonds and other…

16 July 2025

Fianna Fáil running from responsibility on Housing

News – The Labour PartyLabour Leader Ivana Bacik TD has today condemned the Government’s record on housing during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil. Speaking just before the Dáil summer recess, Deputy Bacik criticised the Taoiseach for failing to take meaningful action on homelessness, the Tenant in Situ scheme, vacancy and dereliction. She said that Fianna…

Ivana Bacik TD
16 July 2025

Speech made by Ciarán Ahern TD (Dublin South West) on the Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025

News – The Labour PartyThe establishment of this Commission of Investigation is welcome, and it is not before time. The scourge of child sexual violence in our schools – and the abject failure of authority figures and institutions to protect defenceless young people from this life-changing abuse – is something that Irish society needs to…

15 July 2025

Bacik presses for full trade ban with illegal settlements

News – The Labour PartyLabour Leader Ivana Bacik TD has called on the Government to immediately legislate for a full ban on trade in both goods and services with illegal Israeli settlements. Speaking in the Dáil during Leaders’ Questions this week, Deputy Bacik referenced a moving protest outside Leinster House organised by Grannies for Palestine,…

Ivana Bacik TD
15 July 2025

Tenant in Situ scheme gutted by Government inaction

News – The Labour PartyLabour’s Housing Spokesperson Conor Sheehan TD has slammed Government following the news that new applications for the Tenant in Situ scheme in Fingal Council. This means that families facing eviction are once again being left in limbo, with nowhere to turn and no time to spare. Labour is calling for urgent…

14 July 2025

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