News – The Labour PartyPrioritises regressive tax plans Today’s long awaited Summer Economic Statement proposes a Rainy Day Fund at a time when the country is barely getting into stronger recovery mode. It would have been much more appropriate to prioritise better public services at this stage of the recovery. The tax package in the…

News – The Labour PartyThe revelation in The Herald newspaper on Monday, 13 June, by Gerry O’Carroll, former Garda Detective, that Eamon Cooke, who is the main suspect in the disappearance of the thirteen year-old schoolboy Philip Carins, was given an official Garda code designated “Alpha Seven” is a remarkable piece of information and begs…

News – The Labour Party   Children benefit from meeting and getting to know children from various backgrounds and religions. Diversity in our schools is an opportunity for our society, not something we should feel threatened by. All members of this house will have heard the anecdotal evidence of parents feeling forced to baptise their…

News – The Labour PartyLaunching the Labour Party’s ‘Richard O’Carroll Empowerment Bursary’, Chairperson of Labour’s 1916 Commemoration Committee, Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has invited students to apply for the bursary awarded for the upcoming 2016-17 academic year. The bursary, worth €2,000, is named after the leader of the Labour Group on Dublin Corporation who was…

News – The Labour PartyFollowing the visit of the Taoiseach and some of his Cabinet Minsters to the North Inner City last week, the Taoiseach has invited public representatives to meet him in Government Buildings tomorrow, Monday 20 June 2016.  It would be churlish not to welcome the Taoiseach’s visit and  to accept in good faith his…

News – The Labour PartyI welcome today’s publication of TASC research showing that ‘flexibility’ is being imposed by employers on more and more workers, across a range of different industry sectors.  The research complements and updates findings in the report I published last November on zero and low hours contracts and their impact on employees. …

News – The Labour PartyLabour Youth is deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Jo Cox yesterday following a brutal attack in her constituency.  National Chairperson of Labour Youth, Grace Williams commented: “It was very upsetting to learn of the news of the death of Jo Cox. It is alarming to hear…

News – The Labour PartyWe were so saddened to hear of the death of Jo Cox MP yesterday and we send our sincere condolences to her husband Brendan, her two young children and all her family and friends.  We would also like to express our condolences and solidarity to our sisters in the Labour Women’s…