Labour Senator Kevin Humphreys has welcomed the decision by the Minister for Culture and Hertigate not to implement extended hedge cutting periods allowed for under the Heritage Act (2018) but has criticised Minster Madigan for progressing the legislation in the first place. He has described the move as being ‘electorally, not environmentally motivated”. Senator Humphreys said:“I…

After years of investigations and a long campaign by thousands of mortgage holders, the Central Bank published its final report into the examination of tracker mortgages in Irish banks. It details how our banks put large numbers of their own customers on the wrong interest rates and overcharged them thousands of euro in interest payments….

Labour Councillor for Kimmage Rathmines in Dublin City Council has outlined the lack of accountability and action from Waterways Ireland in responding to plastic pollution on the Grand Canal where small beads of polystyrene have been floating in the water from Sally’s Bridge at Clogher Road down to Portobello Dock for nearly two weeks. Cllr…

Labour Finance spokesperson Joan Burton responding to the final examination report from the Central Bank on the tracker mortgage scandal said we still don’t know who will be held responsible for the decisions that caused this, and called for an independent investigation now to tell us how it happened. Deputy Burton said: “The examination action…

Responding to the claim by both British Conservative leadership candidates that the border backstop is ‘dead’, the leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin TD, called on the Taoiseach to hold firm and to retain the solidarity of the European Union for the Irish backstop. Brendan said “It is unbelievable that both contenders to be…

Labour Climate spokesperson, Seán Sherlock has said the absence of any outside voices on the Climate Action Delivery Board will limit the ability of it to deliver real results, and called for Minister Bruton to include external watchdogs to sit on this cross-Departmental working group to ensure the updates on targets are credible and ambitious….

Labour spokesperson on Education, Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has reiterated his proposals of State provided school books at no cost to parents and bans on voluntary contributions. This follows today’s report of findings from the Irish League of Credit Unions which found that a third of parents are forced to deny their children school items…

Labour Employment Affairs spokesperson Sen. Ged Nash has called on Minister Regina Doherty to do more than token gestures to tackle bogus self-employment but instead change the law to make employment status an unambiguous matter of the law, and ensure those found guilty are labelled as tax defaulters. Sen. Nash said: “Unfortunately for far too…