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REMINDER: LABOUR TO LAUNCH DÁIL BILL ON MICROBEADS – TUESDAY 12.30PM

Labour spokesperson on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Seán Sherlock, alongside our Environment Spokesperson Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin will today at 12.30pm launch a Bill to be introduced in the Dáil aimed at banning the use of microbeads and other micro-plastics in cosmetics and personal products. Deputy Sherlock and Senator Ó Ríordáin will be…

Labour Trade Unionists
28 November 2016

KILDARE SHORT BY 268 GARDA PERSONNEL: STAGG

The Kildare Garda division is short by 268 personnel across Rank and File Gardaí, Garda Reserves, Community Gardaí and Civilian Personnel, according to Garda figures obtained by Labour representative for Kildare North, Emmett Stagg. Labour’s spokesperson for Older People said: “These figures, based on Kildare population stats in the 2016 Census, clearly show that across…

Labour Admin

25 November 2016

RTE SHOULD RETHINK CLOSURE OF YOUNG PEOPLES DEPARTMENT

Labour Party Senator Kevin Humphreys has called on RTE management to reconsider it’s abrupt decision to close the Young People’s Department, saying: “We all have fond memories of Zig and Zag, Dustin, Mary Fitzgerald, Ray D’Arcy and the great in-house domestically produced programming that entertained generations of Irish children.” “The shock announcement yesterday that RTE…

Labour Admin

25 November 2016

LABOUR SUPPORTS BILL ON NEUTRALITY & PROPOSES IMPROVEMENTS

Speech by Willie Penrose TD in  Dáil Éireann on proposed Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016 Labour supports Irish military neutrality. More importantly, we also believe that the principle is supported by the bulk of the Irish people, and that it should therefore be incorporated into the text of the Constitution. We will…

Labour Admin

24 November 2016

HOLLES ST DECISION WELCOME BUT DELAYS WERE UNNECESSARY

Labour Party Senator and spokesperson on Dublin, Kevin Humphreys, has welcomed the news that a new National Maternity Hospital will finally be built at St. Vincents. “I have been calling for some time for construction to begin on the new National Maternity Hospital at Elm Park as a matter of urgency” “I am glad a…

Labour Admin

24 November 2016

MORE NEW MATERNITY HOSPITALS STILL NEEDED TO ADDRESS RISK

Labour Party Health spokesperson Alan Kelly TD has welcomed the announcement of a successful resolution of the dispute over governance between the National Maternity Hospital and St Vincent’s University Hospital, and said: “I welcome the news that a resolution has now been found to preserve the ethos and independence of the National Maternity Hospital through…

24 November 2016

TIME FOR IRELAND TO RATIFY CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND SEXUAL ABUSE

Speaking on the UN Day Opposing Violence against Women, Labour’s spokesperson on Children and Youth Affairs has called for Ireland to immediately ratify the Council of Europe Lanzarote Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation & Sexual Abuse. Deputy O’Sullivan said: “Today we pause to remember the thousands of women in Ireland and…

Labour Admin

24 November 2016

LYNCH LAUNCHES NEW DOCTOR IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMME

Labour Party spokesperson on mental health, Kathleen Lynch has tonight launched a new Doctor of Clinical Psychology programme in University College Cork. “I welcome the launch of this programme, which stems from the work I did when I was Minister of State. It has been developed as a direct result of the groundbreaking policy and…

Labour Admin

24 November 2016

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