Labour Justice spokesperson Seán Sherlock has welcomed today’s Court of Appeal ruling on citizenship. He said that, while the decision did not assist the appellant, Mr Roderick Jones, it did provide much needed clarity on the law to be applied to pending and future citizenship applications, and gave certainty to thousands of people who have…

Speaking during a Dáil debate on the financial challenges facing RTÉ, Labour Limerick TD Jan O’Sullivan repeated her call for Lyric FM to remain in Limerick and warned against having a Dublin-centric national broadcaster. Deputy O’Sullivan said: “I’m really concerned that aspects of RTÉ’s proposed solutions to their financial challenges don’t properly take into account…

According to a Spending Review, published by the Department of Justice in August of this year, there are presently 39 Direct Provision centres in operation. Seven of them are State-owned but all the centres are managed by private contractors.   Recent statistics show that we had just under 3,000 applications for asylum in 2017, and…

Waterford Labour Cllr and Mayor of Waterford, John Pratt has said the Government has failed renters in Waterford, after the latest report from Daft showed yearly rent increases of 11.5 and 5.5 per cent in Waterford County and City, among the highest increases in the country. Cllr Pratt commented: “Rents in Waterford have risen to…

Labour Party General Election candidate for Galway West, Niall McNelis has expressed his concern about the comments of Deputy Noel Grealish in the Dáil. Councillor McNelis said: “Noel Grealish is right to ask the government whether cash transfers abroad are checked for criminal activity. However after his disgraceful comments about Africans coming “to sponge off…

Labour Party by-election candidate for Fingal, Duncan Smith, has said the proposed 40 bed day hospital for Swords will do very little to address the healthcare needs and concerns of people in Fingal. Councillor Smith said: “The proposed 40 bed day hospital for Swords is being hyped up by Fine Gael in this by-election campaign…

Speaking in relation to Labour’s proposal to halt the rise of the pension age, the leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin TD, called on the government to accept that we don’t need to raise the pension age to 67 in 2021 as this is unfair to a cohort of workers who have already worked…

Labour LGBT, the LGBT section of the Irish Labour Party is officially supporting calls for an an investigation into the National Gender Service at St Colmcilles Hospital, Loughlinstown, Dublin. Speaking on the matter, Labour LGBT Co Chairs Aoife Leahy and James Joy said: “The recent news that the National Gender Service in Loughlinstown misplaced over 100…