Just recently the economist Dan O’Brien noted that the Irish economy has increased employment more in the past four years that in the 70 years from 1926 to 1996. It would be really sad if as a people we in Ireland failed to learn from the near death experience of eight years ago and that’s…

Speaking in support of the creation of a new All-Party Committee on the future of healthcare in Ireland, Cork East Deputy Sean Sherlock has stressed the importance of research and academia in developing an attainable vision for the healthcare services in Ireland for the future. “Speaking as a former Minister of State for Research and…

Cork East Deputy Sean Sherlock has welcomed the Motion to create an All-Party Committee on the future of healthcare in Ireland and has stated that the Labour Party will engage in a productive manner with this new committee. Deputy Sherlock said: “If we are honest we can reasonably assume there is much common ground between…

Joan Burton TD welcomes the governments U-turn on the inclusion of the Environment portfolio from the title of the new Minister. Deputy Burton said: “The Labour Party raised deep concerns at the dropping of this title. While a number of key parts of the Environment brief have been assigned to Ministers the lack of an overarching…

Labour Youth is calling for the Minister for Jobs, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, to support the Labour Party’s workers’ rights motion which is to be voted on in the Dáil this evening.  National Chairperson Grace Williams said: “Earlier today we handed in a letter to the Department of Jobs for the attention of Minister Mary Mitchell…

Worker’s Rights are at the core of what the Labour Party stands for and what the Labour movement is all about.  Only this morning I was out meeting workers in Oberstown youth detention centre who staged a four hour work stoppage to highlight safety concerns on their campus. The fight for workers’ rights goes on…

Speaking on the Labour Party Private Members Motion This motion is tabled by Labour Party deputies to ensure that the rights of Workers remain on the political agenda. We need to maintain the progress that has been made by the Government of 2011 to 2016 beginning with one of its first acts, the restoration of…

Speaking after the publication today by the Government of a list of Bills from the previous Dáil session that are to be restored to the Dáil Agenda, Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin expressed his dismay at the abandoning of the Admission to Schools Bill by the Fine Gael-led Government. “The Labour Party in Government made…