Labour spokesperson on Housing Jan O’Sullivan will publish legislation today at 11.30 to ensure that the best interests of homeless children are recognised by Local Authorities in an emergency situation. The Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017 would require Local Authorities to recognise the rights of a child in a family unit when applying for accommodation…

Senator Ivana Bacik has welcomed the passage of the Competition (Amendment) Bill through both Houses of the Oireachtas. “This Bill arises from a long-standing Labour Party commitment to ensure protection of the right to collectively bargain for freelance workers, including journalists, actors and others, who perform their work on a self-employed or contract-for-services basis. “I…

Speech by Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin on Report & Final Stages of Competition Amendment Bill. First Opposition Bill to pass into law from 32nd Dáil and 25th Seanad. Provides collective bargaining rights for freelance workers. Defines in law for first time bogus self employment. Will ensure workers in the gig economy can organise for…

Reacting to the shooting dead of a man in the North Inner City of Dublin, Labour representative Joe Costello has said an International Criminal Assets Bureau must be established and has called for the Taoiseach to establish the Implementation Structures as recommended in the Mulvey Report. Mr Costello said: “The shooting dead of a man…

Seconding the Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017, Labour Party Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has called for an end to the ‘war on drugs’.  “I was delighted this evening to second the Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017, proposed by my colleague Senator Lynn Ruane. “It is my absolute conviction, as someone who…

The Labour Party has become the first Opposition party in the current Dáil term to successfully pass a Bill through both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Competition Amendment Bill 2016, which will become law in the next five days, aims to improve the working and living standards of those working on a freelance basis in…

Senator Kevin Humphreys has welcomed the agreement in the Seanad today, on foot of a Labour motion calling for the postponement of the AIB share sale, that Minister Michael Noonan would speak to Senators at 6pm this evening, Wednesday 31st May. Senator Humphreys said: “Today on the Order of Business in the Seanad the Labour…

Labour Spokesperson on Children and Youth Affairs, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has said that new figures from the ISPCC today highlight the need for an out-of hours social work service. In its annual report for 2016, the ISPCC revealed that 75 per cent of all calls to Childline happened outside office hours. Deputy O’Sullivan commented: “The…