Labour Councillor and Chair of Dublin City Council Planning Committee, Andrew Montague, has said we should be using the planning system in Ireland to try and reduce our carbon emissions. Cllr Montague said: “As we put together the National Planning Framework for the next 20 years, we must be ambitious for the development of the…

Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has called on the Minister for Sport and the FAI to answer questions on the treatment of the Republic of Ireland’s women’s national football team. “As a firm supporter of promoting women in sport, I was appalled to hear of the treatment of our national women’s football team.“It is not…

Speaking on Private Members Motion on the Defence Forces I would like to formally move the Labour Party addendum to the motion. This is a very welcome motion tonight with a lot of good things in it. However we wished to add some important points we feel are absent from the original Motion. Labour has…

Speaking in Dáil Éireann on Statements on Brexit. With the formal Brexit process now underway, and no certainty on what the outcome will be, Ireland faces years of uncertainty. The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union will present Ireland with its greatest social, economic and diplomatic challenge since the Emergency. For some…

Labour Party spokepseron on Water, Jan O’Sullivan TD, along with party leader Brendan Howlin and Labour colleagues will be available to speak to reporters on the Leinster House plinth at 17.40 this evening. When: 17.40, Tuesday April 4th Where: Leinster House plinth

Labour Women has today welcomed the Labour Party Bill published today which would safeguard people against online harassment including ‘revenge porn’, describing it as a “vital measure to tackle the horrific online abuse many people endure without ever getting justice”. Chair of Labour Women Sinead Ahern commented: “There has been an epidemic of online harassment…

Chair of the Labour Party Policy Committee, Alex White has outlined today how the Labour Party Conference, later this month in Wexford, will debate a policy paper outlining radical proposals to tackle climate change. One of the proposals is to leave fossil fuels in the ground by eventually ending the licensing of oil and gas…

Speech by Brendan Howlin, T.D., Leader of the Labour Party At the launch of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Good morning, Martina and Margaret have spoken eloquently about the problems that we are hoping to resolve with this Bill. It falls to me to briefly set out how…