After meeting nurses on the picket line in University Hospital Limerick, the country’s most consistently overcrowded hospital, Labour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly TD, has called on the Government to take the concerns nurses have seriously. Deputy Kelly said: “The nurses I met outside University Hospital Limerick this morning don’t want to be on strike…

Brendan Howlin, TD for Wexford and Labour Party Leader, has extended his congratulations to the team at the Dunbrody Famine Ship and Irish Immigrant Experience, Co. Wexford. Dunbrody Famine Ship was awarded a Merit Award at the 29th International Annual CIE Tours Awards of Excellence. Deputy Howlin said: “I would like to extend my warmest…

Brendan Howlin TD, leader of the Labour Party, reacted to the latest developments in Westminster and called on the Taoiseach to hold firm on Ireland’s need for a legally-binding agreement to keep the border open, and that any future EU-UK trade deal must commit to that. Deputy Howlin said: “While the UK exiting the EU…

Speaking at the Politics Society of Trinity College tonight, 29th January, Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin outlined his views on the future of Northern Ireland after Brexit. In his remarks Deputy Howlin spoke extensively on the future of the Labour movement there, and the implications of the recently announced partnership between the SDLP and Fianna…

Labour Justice Spokesperson, Senator Ivana Bacik, has welcomed the government’s decision to hold  a referendum on divorce.    The referendum will ask people to approve an amendment to Article 41.3.2 of the Constitution to remove the minimum living apart period for spouses applying for a divorce.    Senator Bacik said;   “I welcome the announcement today that…

Labour TD and Chair of the All Party Oireachtas Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health has described as ‘essential’ the delivery of objective Sexual Education. Deputy O’Sullivan said; “The recommendations from the Oireachtas Education Committee, of which I am a member, is broadly in line with the recommendation on Sex Education of the Oireachtas Committee…

Labour TD for Dublin West, Joan Burton TD today introduced in the Dáil her Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2018 which if passed into law would provide legal certainty following the illegal registration of informal adoptions where a false birth certificate was issued. Introducing the bill, Deputy Burton said: “Adoption was first introduced to Ireland and…

Following his questioning at today’s Health Committee, Labour Party Health spokesperson Alan Kelly TD, said that despite layers of oversight, it’s difficult to understand how the overspend of the National Children’s Hospital happened. Deputy Kelly said: Through Parliamentary Questions, I have sought to establish the layers of oversight around the building of the National Children’s…