Will parents have to pay more for full time care due to gap in funding for several weeks? Families and providers need to know what the funding package for the childcare sector will be when it reopens, and what impact the decision to halt ECCE funding in April may have on fees for parents, said…

Young people still being gouged for the price of a home. Extended freeze on rents and evictions needed now. With rents recording a 0.6% increase in May according to a Daft report, and Dublin labelled as the most expensive city to move to in the Eurozone, Labour Senator Rebecca Moynihan has said there is a…

Labour member of the Special Committee on COVID-19 Response, Duncan Smith TD, has called on the Government to provide reusable face masks and instructions on proper usage to each household in the country. Deputy Smith said: “At today’s meeting of the Special Committee on COVID-19 Response I raised the issue of each household receiving reusable…

No worker must lose their job Labour calls for joint WRC and Government guidance for workers Responding to Minister Harris’s comments today that families will have to secure a “dig out” for getting childcare, Senator Marie Sherlock said that Government has once again shown that it has derisory understanding of the function of childcare for…

Responding to the comments today of the Minister for Justice, Labour Senator Annie Hoey said transformation of Direct Provision is not enough and that legislators must act to translate the anger over racism and direct provision in Ireland into concrete action, and take on board the reforms that groups have called for over many years….

Labour Seanad Leader Ivana Bacik has written to the Taoiseach alongside Senator Michael McDowell and eight other Senators (including all the Labour Senators), seeking a date for the first sitting of the Seanad, without the 11 Taoiseach nominees, so that vital legislation can be passed. The unlikely alliance of Senators will apply to the High Court for…

2 cent difference in wages will discriminate against young people and women Timing of Minimum wage change would move someone working 20 hours to higher payment Labour Senator Rebecca Moynihan said the changes announced by Minister Doherty to the €350 Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) yesterday are unfair and impact disproportionally on younger people who…

Labour Party Leader Alan Kelly TD, has welcomed the Government’s decision to take on the Labour Party’s call to reduce the easing of restrictions from five phases to four but failed to provide details on reopening the healthcare system, and the cut to Covid-19 payments will discriminate against young people. Deputy Kelly said: “The last twelve…