Labour Party health spokesperson Alan Kelly TD has said that this Cervical Cancer Prevention Week the Minister for Health must commit to setting out timelines on four key issues when it comes to cervical cancer.  Deputy Kelly said: “While there has been much scandal around CervicalCheck this year, it is still imperative for women to…

Labour Spokesperson for Urban Regeneration, Joe Costello, has called on the government to act to tackle the sustained rise in childhood homeless.  Mr. Costello said: “The sharp increase in the number of homeless children who were treated in Temple St Hospital in 2018 compared to 2017 from 651 to 842 is alarming. “It reflects the…

Labour Transport Spokesperson Senator Kevin Humphreys has called on Minister Ross to reinvigorate and expand the ‘Local Area Hackney’ or ‘Rural Hackney’ license scheme, and expressed concerns about the back of the envelope plan proposed by Minister Daly which opens the door to Uber as a public transport service model in Ireland.  Senator Humphreys said:  “While finding more creative…

Labour Party health spokesperson Alan Kelly TD has said the Minister for Health must honour their proposals passed by the Dáil on the nurses strike. Deputy Kelly said “According to the INMO, the HSE and the Department of health have made no proposals to averting strike action due to take place in just over a…

Remarks at the Centenary of the First Dáil, Mansion House, Dublin 21st January 2019. Brendan Howlin TD, Leader of the Labour Party Ireland is one of only a handful of countries that has sustained a democratically-elected Parliament, uninterrupted, for a century. I’m proud of the role that the Labour Party has played to improve the…

Speaking on the occasion of the centenary of the Democratic Programme of the First Dáil, written by Labour’s then leader Tom Johnson, the leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin TD set out Labour’s non-negotiable priorities that must be met before Labour would support any government, including from Opposition. Deputy Howlin said: “In each of…

DUBLIN CANDIDATE WANTS GENEROUS CO-OPERATION BETWEEN PROGRESSIVE PARTIES The Labour Party has selected former Minister Alex White to contest the Dublin constituency in this May’s European Parliament elections. Thanking party members for nominating him, White said: “These elections will be the most momentous in the history of the European Union. “Brexit poses a real risk…

In an oration at the graveside of Tom Johnson, Jack O Connor called for  “the creation of a space for dialogue” involving, Labour, The Social Democrats, Left Independents and the Green Party. Mr O’Connor said: “Yes, there has been real and welcome progress on Equality over recent years, particularly reflected in the outcomes of the…