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Today’s verdict should not deter victims from coming forward

News – The Labour PartyLabour Party Equality spokesperson, Councillor Deirdre Kingston, has said that the outcome and commentary surrounding the outcome of the Paddy Jackson/Stuart Olding trial should not deter victims from coming forward and shows why victims need enhanced protection. Councillor Kingston said: “The coverage of the trial both online and in our media…

Labour Admin

28 March 2018

Labour Youth commends the two victories of the Take Back Trinity movement

News – The Labour PartyLabour Youth welcomes the Board of Trinity College’s decision to make concessions on two of the Take Back Trinity Movement’s demands – to scrap the unfair €450 charge for supplemental exams and granting fee certainty fees for postgraduate and international students. Labour Youth further commends the power of the Take Back…

Labour Youth
28 March 2018

Lois West and Laura Galligan Deserve Independent Investigation into Homicide Figures – Kelly

News – The Labour PartyCommenting on the publication of the CSO’s review of Garda Crime figures, Labour TD and Vice Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Alan Kelly said: “The revelation that the number of homicides being recorded by the Gardaí since 2003 are completely wrong needs to be independently investigated. “The CSO have now…

28 March 2018

Labour calls for HPV vaccine to be extended to boys

News – The Labour PartyThe Labour Party will this evening use its Private Members time in the Dáil to call for unanimous support for the HPV vaccine programme to help protect against cervical cancer and to support the rollout of the vaccination for young boys. Speaking ahead of the debate, Labour spokesperson on health, Alan…

28 March 2018

Speech by Ivana Bacik Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018

News – The Labour PartyI welcome the Minister and welcome this historic debate, in which at last after 35 years – if this Bill is passed – we are giving the Irish people the right to vote on whether or not to retain the Eighth Amendment, Article 40.3.3, inserted in 1983 to make Irish law…

Ivana Bacik TD
28 March 2018

No meaningful explanation for failure to search emails

News – The Labour PartyLabour TD for Tipperary Alan Kelly has said that it is not acceptable that no meaningful explanation has been provided by the Department of Justice for the failure to search the emails of the Policing Division for material that might be relevant to the Disclosures Tribunal, and further highlights the dysfunction…

28 March 2018

Dáil Committee to discuss Prohibition of Micro Plastics Bill

News – The Labour PartyThe proposed law from Labour TD, Sean Sherlock that would ban the use of micoplastics in Ireland will be subject to detailed scrutiny at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government from 9.30am on Wednesday 28th March in Committee Room 1. The Committee members will hear from Dr….

Seán Sherlock TD
27 March 2018

Media doorstep on Labour’s HPV vaccine motion, Wednesday March 28th

News – The Labour PartyA Labour Party motion calling for unanimous Dáil support for the HPV vaccine in schools, and to extend the vaccine to boys in first year in secondary school will be debated during Private Members’ time this evening. Labour spokesperson on Health, Deputy Alan Kelly, and Deputy Jan O’Sullivan will be available…

Labour Trade Unionists
27 March 2018

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