Labour Party Leader and Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Brendan Howlin TD, has supported the call of the UN Secretary General for an investigation into the death of a dozen or more Palestinian protestors on Friday last.  However, the Labour Leader criticised the response of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney,…

Labour spokesperson on Education Aodhán Ó RÍordáin has heavily criticised Fianna Fáil for speaking out of both side of their mouths on pay inequality. Senator Ó Ríordáin was speaking ahead of today’s INTO conference in Killarney which he is attending. “Pay inequality for newly qualified teachers was introduced by Fianna Fáil in 2011 and remains…

Nearly 100 years since then Labour leader Tom Johnson presented the Democratic Programme to the first Dáil, the Labour Party will tonight begin a journey toward imagining a new vision for the Ireland of the next 100 years. Members of the public, groups, organisations, and all who share the Labour Party’s commitment to a fairer…

We need to see a sense of urgency from Government on this issue and I did not detect that in the Minister’s speech today or in any of his contributions in the many housing debates we have had in this Chamber recently.  We seem to be going nowhere.  The Minister mentioned in his speech that…

Speech by Brendan Howlin Leader of the Labour Party at the launch of  #aNewRepublic Good evening, 99 years ago, the Democratic Programme of the first Dáil was published. On 21 January 1919 Tom Johnson presented the Democratic Programme to the First Dail just a few feet away from where I stand now. It was a…

The Labour Party will hold the selection convention for our general election candidate in the constituency of Wicklow on Wednesday 4th April in the Glenview Hotel, Wicklow. There will be one candidate nominated on the night, and Jack O’Connor, former General President of SIPTU has put his name forward for selection. The selection convention will…

You are invited to attend the launch of ‘A New Republic’ this evening, Thursday 29th March at 6pm in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St, Dublin 2. What will Ireland’s next century look like? 100 years on from Tom Johnson’s Democratic Programme, one of the founding documents of the 1st Dáil, we’re reimagining a fairer,…

Speech by Brendan Howlin TD Post- EU Council Statements Dáil Éireann 28th March 2017 A Ceann Comhairle, In the run up to the EU Council meeting last week the overwhelming focus was on Brexit and the proposals leaders were to discuss on digital taxation. However as the UK prepares to leaves the Union, we were…