Labour spokesperson on Equality, Deirdre Kingston, has repeated Labour’s call for RTÉ to come clean on their organisational gender pay gap before they are required to do so in response to a request the Party has lodged under the Freedom of Information Act. It comes as the national broadcaster today unveiled that just three of…

To mark World Breastfeeding Week 2017, the Labour Party will today, Wednesday 2nd August launch a new policy paper ‘Supporting Mothers and Babies: A New Approach to Breastfeeding’. The policy, developed by Senator Kevin Humphreys and Labour Party members will be launched at 3pm in Buswells Hotel, with a roundtable discussion with a number of…

Reacting to the latest HSE figures on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Labour Party spokesperson on Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch, has called on the Government and the HSE to take more action to reduce waiting times. Ms Lynch commented: “Today, through figures published by the HSE we have learned that 1,784 children have…

Labour Party spokesperson on Employment and Social Protection, Senator Ged Nash has said that Independent Alliance Minister John Halligan has made another ’empty promise’ on the living wage on the national airwaves. Senator Nash said: “It is time John Halligan started to behave like a Minister and deliver on the things he tells the media…

Labour Housing and Enterprise spokesperson, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has said Ireland must move to alleviate the housing crisis if it is to successfully compete with other EU cities as a post-Brexit hub. It comes as the deadline for applications to host the European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority expires at midnight tonight, with Ireland…

Labour spokesperson on Equality, Cllr Deirdre Kingston has welcomed the news that a designated immigration unit will be developed at Dublin Airport but said that answers are still needed on why Ms Silva-Carvalho was treated the way she was. Cllr Kingston said: “I welcome the news that the Department of Justice and OPW will start…

Labour spokesperson on Health, Alan Kelly TD, has welcomed the announcement that nine new drugs will be made available later this year, after a row over funding was resolved between the HSE and Department of Health. However Deputy Kelly said that clarity was now needed over when these drugs will be made available to Irish…

Labour spokesperson on urban regeneration, Joe Costello reacting to CSO figures today has said: “The 2016 Census figures released by the CSO today make stark reading. “They show that nearly half a million adults over 18 years of age are living with their parents. This is an increase of 4.4%. Nearly half or 215,000 were…