Pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for the development of A National Community Garden and Spaces policy. Housing emergency needs more than bricks and mortar solutions. Labour Senator Mark Wall has called for an urgent national policy on Community Gardens and Community Spaces for the country. Speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community…

Labour Party Leader Alan Kelly will tomorrow at 3pm visit the Mullen Park Estate in Maynooth with Cllr Angela Feeney. They will be available to speak to the media there. After that he will go on to visit Maynooth itself, and Celbridge. What: Doorstep with Labour leader Alan Kelly TD and Cllr Angela Feeney Where:…

Labour Senator Ivana Bacik has welcomed the publication of ‘long-awaited’ information and tracing legislation by Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration Roderic O’Gorman. Senator Bacik said: “The publication of this important legislation is hugely welcome. Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes and all adopted persons are waiting decades for this provision in law to…

Labour Party Leader Alan Kelly has welcomed the outcome of inquest by Justice Siobhan Keegan into the killing of 10 innocent people in Ballymurphy nearly fifty years ago and urged the British government to honour the Stormont House Agreement. Deputy Kelly said: “There was no justification for the killing of 10 people in Ballymurphy in…

Could issue guidelines under Section 28 of the Planning and Development Act Labour Housing spokesperson Senator Rebecca Moynihan has highlighted the powers available to the Minister under the Planning and Development Act that would allow him to issue planning guidelines to restrict the sale of properties to cuckoo funds. Senator Moynihan said: “People can’t keep…

Labour education spokesperson Aodhán Ó Ríordáin described the announcement of summer provision without a targeted ‘Catch Up’ fund as dangerous and damaging. Deputy Ó Ríordáin said the fact that the Minister is doubling funding for a summer programme fundamentally misunderstands the impact of the pandemic on children throughout the country. Calling for the introduction of…

Labour Foreign Affairs spokesperson Brendan Howlin has condemned the recent actions of the Israeli government which has led to an escalation of violence in East Jerusalem and Gaza, called for an end to belligerent action, and he will question the Minister for Foreign Affairs later today in the Dáil about the actions the Irish Government…

The ESRI report due to be published this week bluntly shows Government’s investor led approach is locking generation rent out of the dream of home ownership. Labour housing spokesperson Senator Rebecca Moynihan said the State’s reliance on investors and its build to rent policy is depriving young people from any opportunity of owning a home…