News – The Labour PartySpeech by Brendan Howlin TD Post- EU Council Statements Dáil Éireann 28th March 2017 A Ceann Comhairle, In the run up to the EU Council meeting last week the overwhelming focus was on Brexit and the proposals leaders were to discuss on digital taxation. However as the UK prepares to leaves…

News – The Labour PartyLabour spokesperson on Housing, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, has slammed the latest homeless figures as being ‘shocking’ and ‘unacceptable’ and says the Government needs to start supplying social and affordable housing as a matter of urgency. Deputy O’Sullivan said: “I am appalled at the latest figures which show more than 1,700 families…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…