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O’ SULLIVAN URGES MINISTER COVENEY TO INTERVENE IN GROVE ISLAND EVICTIONS

Labour Party Housing spokesperson Jan O’ Sullivan T.D. has this morning contacted Minister Simon Coveney to ask for his intervention to stop the eviction of the residents of Fisherman’s Quay, Grove Island. Deputy O’ Sullivan believes that legislation passed just before Christmas in the Dáil may protect the residents depending on the number who have…

Labour Admin

21 April 2017

MINISTER HARRIS HYPOCRITICAL IN HIS STANCE ON NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL

Labour spokesperson on Health, Alan Kelly has slammed Minister Simon Harris’ hypocritical stance on the Sisters of Charity and the National Maternity Hospital.  “Simon Harris seems to have forgotten about his tirade against the Vincent’s Hospital group at the Public Accounts Committee back in 2013. Back then, Minister Harris rightly criticised Vincent’s Private for using…

21 April 2017

GOVERNMENT PARALYSIS MEANS LABOUR MUST BE PREPARED FOR ELECTION

This is my fourth selection convention in the past week.   And it has been genuinely encouraging to see so many members turn out at every meeting, in support of our fine party candidates.   Ged Nash in Louth, Rebecca Moynihan in Dublin South Central and Andrew Montague in Dublin North West have already been…

Labour Admin

19 April 2017

MEDIA NOTIFICATION: DÚN LAOGHAIRE SELECTION CONVENTION

Labour will be selecting our candidate for Dún Laoghaire tonight Cllr Deirdre Kingston is the only candidate going before the selection convention.  It will be attended by Party Leader Brendan Howlin, local councillors and Labour Party supporters. Details are as follows: Date: Wed 19th April 2017 Location: The Graduate, Killiney Time: 7.30 pm

Labour Admin

19 April 2017

GOVERNMENT TIME WASTING ON MICROPLASTICS BAN

Labour Spokesperson on Climate Change Sean Sherlock has dismissed the Government’s intention to introduce its own bill to ban plastic microbeads as “time wasting.” “There is no reason for the Government to introduce their own bill,” said Deputy Sherlock. “We have been promised new politics, but nearly every time a private member’s bill comes up…

Seán Sherlock TD
19 April 2017

WHENEVER AN ELECTION COMES, LABOUR WILL BE READY

It’s great to see so many of you here this evening, in support of two fine party candidates. The last twelve months have been pretty lacklustre in Irish politics. Far from seeing the dawn of a ‘new politics’, as so many hoped for, this has become, in Jan O’Sullivan’s words, a do-nothing Dáil. 2016 saw…

Labour Admin

18 April 2017

COVENEY ALREADY CAN ALLOW CLLRS REDUCE LOCAL RATES

Commenting on the plans of Minister Simon Coveney to introduce a new law to allow local authorities to reduce commercial rates, Labour Party spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan has called on the Minister to act on the powers he already has under the Local Government (Rates) Act 1970. Deputy O’Sullivan said: “If Simon Coveney genuinely wants to…

Labour Admin

18 April 2017

SISTERS OF CHARITY TO BE SOLE OWNER OF MATERNITY HOSPITAL AN OUTRAGE

Labour Women has condemned the announcement by the Department of Heath that the Sisters of Charity are to be the sole owners of the new maternity hospital, describing it as “an outrage and an insult to all women”. Speaking on the matter Chair of Labour Women Sinead Ahern commented: “Today we have learned that the…

Labour Women
18 April 2017

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