Yesterday our friends in IMPACT launched their #ClockedOut campaign to highlight the gender pay gap in Ireland. Because of the gender pay gap Irish women who work 9-5 work the last 71 minutes of their work day for free. The Labour Party has published legislation that aims to drive efforts towards closing the gender pay…

Labour Transport spokesperson and Dublin TD, Brendan Ryan, has expressed his sympathies with the families, friends and colleagues of the Rescue 116 Coast Guard helicopter crew whose aircraft went missing off the coast of Mayo in the early hours of this morning. Deputy Ryan said: “I echo the sentiment of the Irish Coast Guard which…

Tonight, Tuesday 14th March at 8pm, Labour spokesperson on Finance, Joan Burton TD is hosting a public forum on Brexit at the Castleknock Hotel and Country Club. With the triggering of Article 50 just days away, this forum will discuss what it means for our country and for Dublin. The panel of expert speakers to…

Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, Rebecca Moynihan has criticised the hypocrisy of the Taoiseach’s position on illegal Irish immigrants in America and called on the Government to support a regularisation scheme for undocumented migrants on this side of the Atlantic. This follows the remarks on Monday by the Boston Mayor Martin Walsh that he would…

Labour spokesperson on Jobs, and Tipperary TD, Alan Kelly has said that the loss of over 200 jobs at Coty by the end of 2018 is a huge blow for Nenagh, and urgent Government action is needed in response. The job losses raise serious concerns for other pharmaceutical plants across Ireland, and what the Government…

The Government is pressing ahead with plans to sell-off 25% of AIB. Labour leader Brendan Howlin has called on those plans to be put on hold until guarantees are secured that the proceeds can be invested in Irish infrastructure. Michael Noonan recently informed the Dáil that “the sale of any shareholding in any of the…

Speech by Jan O’Sullivan TD in Dáil Éireann on Thursday 9th March 2017 on ‘Statements on the announcement by the Commission of Investigation confirming human remains on the site of the former Tuam Mother and Baby home’. I welcome the fact that the Minister has indicated she will publish the report. We need an explanation…

Labour Women has today welcomed the publication of Labour’s Bill to help address the gender pay gap. Speaking on the matter Labour Women Chair Sinead Ahern commented: “It’s well known that women earn less than their male colleagues and the statistics released this week shows little has changed in that regard, with Irish women earning…