News – The Labour PartyCHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Anyone charged with investigating serious crime has two basic obligations. The first is to assemble all the information needed to persuade a jury that the accused person has committed that crime. The second obligation is to maintain the integrity of that information and of the information-gathering process. To…

News – The Labour PartyThe Labour Party will host a panel discussion on the Housing and Homelessness crisis tomorrow evening, Tuesday, May 30th. Speakers will include Jan O’Sullivan TD, Labour Spokesperson on Housing, Lorcan Sirr, Housing lecturer, DIT, and Karan O’Loughlin, SIPTU National Campaigns and Equality Organiser. What: Labour Housing panel discussionWhen: 7-9pm, Tuesday, May…

News – The Labour PartyLabour Party spokesperson on Housing and Children and Youth Affairs, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has called on Minister for Housing Simon Coveney to urgently produce a strategy for vacant houses. “This morning I was shocked to hear that 12 homeless families, including 30 children, had been sent to Garda stations because there…

News – The Labour PartySpeech by Party Leader Brendan Howlin at the Labour Party Dublin South West selection convention. 24th May 2017 In just over a year and a half, on the 21st January 2019, we will be celebrating the centenary of this country’s Declaration of Independence at the first meeting of Dáil Éireann. We…

News – The Labour PartySenator Ivana Bacik has welcomed this evening the passing at second stage of the Labour Party’s Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017. The Bill will now move to committee stage, with nearly all Senators present supporting it, and the Labour Group will seek an opportunity…

News – The Labour PartyLabour Women has commended Senator Ivana Bacik and the Labour Party for leading the way on addressing the gender pay gap ahead of today’s debate on the issue in the Seanad. Chair of Labour Women Sinead Ahern commented: “This Bill requiring employers to publish the difference between what they pay men…

News – The Labour PartyLabour spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform, Sean Sherlock TD has said it is bizarre that the Irish Minister’s for Finance and Public Expenditure are meeting with the European Investment Bank to borrow for investment, when they should instead be seeking to change the fiscal rules to allow the proceeds of…

News – The Labour PartyLabour Party legislation that aims to close the earnings gap between men and women in Ireland will be debated in the Seanad this evening. The Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2017 requires medium to large-sized companies to regularly publish wage transparency surveys that would highlight any difference in pay between their…