News – The Labour PartyLabour Party Leader Brendan Howlin has welcomed the last minute row back by the Revenue Commissioners to delay plans to charge VAT on food supplements until November. This follows the Taoiseach telling the Dáil in response to Deputy Howlin’s question today that the Government could not tell the Revenue Commissioners what…

News – The Labour PartySpeaking on the Government’s no deal Brexit Omnibus bill, Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin TD outlined a number of technical concerns with the bill as drafted, and the economic and political ramifications for Ireland that would follow from a no deal Brexit. On granting special consession to the UK on tax,…

News – The Labour PartyLabour spokesperson on Children & Youth Affairs Seán Sherlock has queried the grading given to the Government on the Affordable Childcare Scheme, saying that the progress to date is still mired in potential delays due to implementation backlogs, and the funding being committed is not being spent. Deputy Sherlock said: “Despite…

News – The Labour PartyLabour Housing spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan has described as ‘damning, yet unsurprising’ the news that the Child and Family Homelessness has been downgraded from an E grade to an F grade, by the Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card, 2019. Deputy O’Sullivan agrees that with CRA’s call to declare a housing emergency. Deputy…

News – The Labour Party Labour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly TD, has described the Department of Health as insensitive to the needs of women and their families at the centre of the CervicalCheck scandal. This comes as the Department of Health made a decision to wind up the CervicalCheck Steering Committee. Deputy Kelly: “The…

News – The Labour PartyLabour General Election candidate, Alan Mangan has called on Fine Gael to halt the 23% VAT increase on food supplements they are introducing from the 1st March that was sneaked in without any debate in the Dáil. Mr. Mangan and the Labour Party is calling for this now to be freezed…

News – The Labour PartyLabour LGBT has expressed concern regarding the delay to the court ruling on the criminality of homosexuality in Kenya.    Executive member Karl Hayden said;  “Labour LGBT notes with concern the delay by the Kenyan High Court in making a ruling on the criminality of homosexuality in Kenya. Labour LGBT calls on…

News – The Labour PartyLabour Party Leader Brendan Howlin is in Madrid, Spain today to attend the launch of the Party of European Socialists manifesto for the upcoming elections in May, and kick off the 2019 campaign for the PES Common Candidate Frans Timmermans. The election congress is being hosted by the Spanish Prime Minister…