Labour TD for Longford-Westmeath, Willie Penrose has welcomed the acceptance of the amendment, tabled by the Labour Party to the Dail motion on our Defence Forces. The Government should now follow through on the proposals, giving PDForra access to the Labour Court and WRC; the immediate payment of the €15 daily armed allowance to those…

Labour spokesperson on Defence, Brendan Ryan TD has welcomed the acceptance of the amendment, tabled by the Labour Party to the Dail motion on our Defence Forces. The Government should now follow through on the proposals, in particular the immediate payment of the €15 daily armed allowance to those who served in the Mediterranean on…

Labour spokesperson on the Environment Senator Aodhán Ó Riordáin has said we need radical ideas to reduce our carbon emissions and tackle climate change. Labour’s 2017 Alternative Budget proposed a €100 million scheme over four years to install solar panels across our 4,000 schools. It’s the rooftop revolution that can help deliver the reduction in…

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled “an Act to Amend the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009” Our bus network is an essential public service and if we are to have private competition with public operators, it is critical that we have a basic threshold on pay and conditions, a reliable…

Labour Communications spokesperson, Seán Sherlock TD, has said that today’s Census figures highlight the gulf that exists between urban and rural broadband services. According to the figures, around 76 per cent of urban households were connected to broadband in 2016, compared with around 61 per cent of households in rural parts of the country. There…

Labour Party spokesperson on Education, Joan Burton has called on the Government to make moves to remove the baptism barrier from our education system following the publication of the 2016 Census. “Today’s census figures show that nearly 500,000 people say they have no religion – a large increase of 73.4% since the Census in 2011….

Labour’s Housing Spokesperson, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has said the 2016 Census figures released today, highlight the need to tackle the housing crisis. According to the figures, around 22 thousand more people were renting across the country in 2016 compared to 2011, with the average weekly rent jumping by 14.8 per cent. The figures also show…

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…