Speaking today at Labour’s launch of a workers charter – ‘Standing Up For Working People’ – the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, and the Minister for Business and Employment Ged Nash TD committed to increasing Minimum Wage to €11.30 over lifetime of next Government. In addition, they outlined the Labour Party’s…

Labour TD in Galway West, Derek Nolan, has welcomed a recent proposal by Tánaiste Joan Burton to host a major Global Arts Forum in Ireland, stating that Galway would be an ideal location for the event. Deputy Nolan said, “A Global Arts Forum is a fantastic proposal. The idea is that it would be modelled…

Ireland has opportunity to build on recovery – burton Speaking at launch of the Programme for Government report This is a report that looks back on the fifth and final year of this Government’s term. But it’s also a report that helps us look forward – to the recovery now firmly under way and what…

Speaking at the Programme for Government report This is a report that looks back on the fifth and final year of this Government’s term. But it’s also a report that helps us look forward – to the recovery now firmly under way and what we need to do to sustain it. In that respect, it’s…

Labour T.D. Ciara Conway is welcoming the development that women are outnumbering men on the ballot paper in the Waterford Constituency. “I’m delighted to say that we seem to be ahead of the rest of the country at this juncture in terms of female representation on the ballot paper. Of the nine declared election candidates…

Renua’s plan to abolish the TV licence would bury RTÉ and end public service broadcasting in Ireland, Labour TD for Galway West Derek Nolan has said. “The license fee makes up the bulk of RTÉ’s funding. Renua’s plan to gut RTÉ by depriving it of almost €180m would devastate the media landscape in Ireland. We…

Any involvement by the Independent Alliance in the next government would be quite simply a recipe for chaos. This much at least became clear from John Halligan on RTE’s This Week today, in an interview that to be honest, didn’t offer much clarity on anything else! Deputy Halligan admitted that because of the dramatically divergent…

I welcome the findings of the Expert Panel on the provision of ambulance services in Dublin and the of rest of the country. The Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) mainly serves the greater Dublin area while the National Ambulance Service (NAS) mainly serves the rest of Ireland. Because of their separate geographical remits, the Expert Panel…