Earlier today Fianna Fáil launched their manifesto and working families around the country will be disappointed to see Fianna Fáil’s continued opposition to free GP care for young children.   When free GP for children under six was first introduced, one Fianna Fáil TD astonishingly described the policy as “reprehensible, immoral and nauseating.” Yet, for…

Speaking at the Trade Union Council of the Isles Annual Dinner, Mansion House, Dublin, Thursday 11th February 2016  Good evening, Lord Mayor, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you to Patricia and ICTU for your kind invitation to this Council of the Isles dinner. I am delighted to address this annual meeting of the four trade union…

This Government’s package of legislation to improve workers’ pay and conditions has brought about the most significant shift in the industrial relations landscape in many years, and it would not have happened without Labour in Government, Ged Nash TD Minister for Business and Employment said this evening [Thursday the 11th February].  He said his party’s…

  “Ladies and Gentlemen,   I’m delighted to be here today with my colleague Minister Alan Kelly to launch Labour’s housing policy.   I have said before during this campaign that the choice people make on Friday 26th next will define the direction of Ireland for the rest of this decade.   This is especially…

Speaking at Labour’s plan for Housing, ‘Making Homes Affordable’ launch in Limerick this morning:   “Minister O’Sullivan, Friends, Colleagues, Thank you for being here to launch our housing policy document. I just want to start by stating the Labour party has always historically prioritised the building of social housing. Every time Labour have been in…

Labour launches new affordable housing plan Labour’s plan for housing, ‘Making Homes Affordable’, was launched in Limerick City this morning by Ministers Alan Kelly and Jan O’Sullivan. Both Ministers visited a social housing development on Lord Edward Street in the city this morning, before formally launching the policy. Specifically, the party’s affordable homes plan will:…

At a time when we have the fastest growing economy in Europe it astonishing that a party claiming to be social democratic would not see fit to propose an increase in the minimum wage. Yet at the launch of his proposals for small business today Stephen Donnelly emphatically stated that he and his colleagues do…

Today’s series of proposals on crime unveiled by Fianna Fail are yet another example of them trying to pretend that the past did not happen. It was Fianna Fail who introduced a freeze on garda recruitment. It was Fianna Fail who closed Templemore Garda Training College. It was Fianna Fail who were in power when…