HAP limits must be revised Labour housing spokesperson Rebecca Moynihan said the number of people living in homeless is a shameful inditement of government housing policy. With a record number of young people living in homessless, Senator Moynihan said without proper protections for people in the private rental market, Ireland will continue to experience record…

Labour finance spokesperson, Ged Nash has today (Wednesday, 27th April) said Government must step up and protect Ulster Bank and KBC customers ahead of the banks planned exit from the Irish market in order avoid the risk of chaos crippling basic bank transactions. Deputy Nash said: “Almost a million ordinary bank customers are in the…

Supporting the call of Grow Remote for a right to flexible work, Labour employment spokesperson Marie Sherlock has today (Tuesday, 26th April) called on government to fast-track Labour’s Right to Flexible Work Bill 2022. Speaking ahead of the resumption of pre-legislative scrutiny of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2022 at the Oireachtas Enterprise…

Labour finance spokesperson, Ged Nash has today (Tuesday, 26th April) said a real plan to combat an imminent and sharp rise in variable mortgage interest rates is urgently needed to assist up to 450,000 homeowners. His call comes amid growing speculation that the European Central Bank will increase interest rates before the end of 2022….

Ivana Bacik TD, leader of the Labour Party, is to deliver the annual Trinity Monday Memorial Discourse today (Monday, 25th April) in Trinity College. The subject of Deputy Bacik’s discourse will be the life of the distinguished Trinity Law graduate, Averil Deverell (1893–1979); one of the first two women to be called to the Bar…

THE nationwide housing crisis has left so many young people, families and single people fearing for how they will keep a roof over their heads. Despite the pandemic, Central Statistics Office figures show house prices rose by 14.8 per cent last year. Outside Dublin city, where often the problem feels more pronounced, prices have risen…

The government’s announcement of a Work Life Bill this week that solely makes accommodations for people with caring responsibilities totally misreads the changes in work over the past two years. Government’s bill will fall far short of meeting the very clear demand for a greater work life balance in this country. It neither addresses the…

Labour Higher Education spokesperson, Annie Hoey, has today (Friday, 22nd April) demanded that the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Simon Harris steps up and guarantees that remote learning options become a permanent feature of our education system. The call comes following news that colleges are actively emailing students to confirm that for the next…