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 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….

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…

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…

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…

· 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…

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,…

Fianna Fáil must be bonkers this weekend if they think voters will take them seriously with their promise to “build a fairer Ireland”.   When Fianna Fáil’s economic policies failed dismally and almost destroyed the country, their immediate reaction was to kick the most vulnerable hard, and then kick them again when they were down.   It…