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Sinn Fein’s eleventh-hour attempt to help elderly ‘a PR gimmick’ – Nolan

Sinn Fein’s charter for older people is a last-minute, desperate attempt to shore up support from a section of society they have completely ignored since 2011. Sinn Fein are not serious about investing in the elderly, in the same way they aren’t serious about being in Government. The party’s pre-Budget submission completely ignored older people…

Labour Admin

19 January 2016

Scrapping of fees for PRTB mediation services helpful – Kenny

Dublin Labour TD and member of the Oireachtas Justice Committee, Sean Kenny, has said that the new mediation service for tenants and landlords announced today is to be welcomed. Deputy Kenny stated: “The new service has been commenced as part of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 and will be operational shortly. The mediation services…

Labour Admin

18 January 2016

Ryan welcomes 350 jobs at Dublin Airport

Labour TD Brendan Ryan has welcomed the news that increased passenger traffic in Dublin Airport has led to the creation of 350 new jobs by the DAA. Deputy Ryan stated: “As a TD for Dublin Fingal, I am pleased by today’s announcement and that it comes on foot of a bumper year for Dublin Airport….

Labour Admin

18 January 2016

Policing Plan needed to deal with scrambler bike problem – Costello

Speaking at the Central Area Joint Policing Committee at City Hall this morning, Deputy Joe Costello raised the serious problem of scrambler bikes on the streets of the North Inner City. Deputy Costello was referring to an incident on Christmas Eve in which a young man on a scrambler bike crashed into a Garda patrol…

Labour Admin

18 January 2016

Children to benefit from Labour’s childcare plan

Speaking at Labour’s ‘Standing up for working families’ campaign launch:Families across the country will potentially benefit from Labour’s plan to introduce a €2 per hour childcare system, Labour candidate for Dublin South West Cllr Pamela Kearns has said. Speaking today at the launch of the Labour’s ‘Standing Up For Working Families’ campaign, Cllr Kearns, who…

Labour Admin

18 January 2016

Labour will deliver the smallest class sizes in the history of the State

Standing up for working families’ campaign launch: Speaking at the launch of the Labour Party ‘Standing Up For Working Families’ campaign this afternoon, Labour TD John Lyons outlined Labour’s achievements in education over the last five years, and unveiled an ambitious plan to deliver the smallest class sizes in the history of the state. “Labour…

Labour Admin

18 January 2016

Burton & Nash launch Action Plan for Jobs 2016

· Fifth annual plan is first in new phase of the Action Plan process, aimed at creating 200,000 extra jobs by 2020 · Plan is key part of Government strategy to keep the recovery going – 50,000 extra jobs targeted for 2016 The Government today launched Action Plan for Jobs 2016, the fifth in the…

Labour Admin

18 January 2016

Fianna Fail cannot be trusted on economy

The claims by Fianna Fail this weekend that they are competing to lead the next government, and that they can be trusted to build an economic recovery, is a clear indication that they are deluded. In 2011, the people of Ireland put Labour in Government to clean up the economic mess that Fianna Fail created,…

Labour Admin

16 January 2016

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