Labour Party Dublin City Councillor for the North Inner City, Joe Costello has said Minister Eoghan Murphy’s questioning of the deal with Bartra to build 824 housing units in O’Devaney Gardens is unacceptable. Councillor Costello said: “The deal was negotiated between Bartra and Dublin City Council at the behest of City Councillors on the Dublin…

Labour Party by-election candidate for Fingal, Councillor Duncan Smith, has called on management at SK Biotek to return without preconditions to the WRC. Councillor Smith said: “I have visited the SK Biotek picket line on Watery Lane in Swords several times now to meet the Biotek workers who are currently locked out of their workplace…

Speaking in response to the ten proposals of the Youth Assembly that met in Dáil Éireann today to discuss action on climate change, the Labour Party’s member of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, Seán Sherlock TD, gave the Labour party’s initial response to these recommendations. Deputy Sherlock said: “The Youth Assembly conducted itself with…

Speaking in relation to Rosslare Port and Brexit, the Mayor of Wexford and Labour Party by-election candidate for Wexford, Cllr George Lawlor, said that the Government has allowed Rosslare to go backwards while Dublin Port is over-congested in a way that makes no sense. Cllr Lawlor said: “According to Rosslare Port Manager, the port is…

Labour spokesperson on Climate Change, Deputy Seán Sherlock, has commended the students taking part in today’s Youth Assembly on Climate Change in the Dáil, as showing true leadership on tackling climate change. Deputy Sherlock said: “As a father myself, I think it’s really inspiring to see our young people come out and show such fantastic…

Labour spokesperson on Housing and Local Government and Enterprise and Innovation, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has called for local authorities and ETBs to use their ownership of the Irish Public Bodies (IPB) Insurance mutual to extend cover to community events and festivals. It follows the cancellation of a number of local events around the country over…

Labour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly TD, has welcomed the HSE’s decision to purchase a second MRI scanner for University Hospital Limerick. Deputy Kelly said: “I have engaged in extensive lobbying and have shamed the HSE into putting a plan in place to secure a second MRI machine for University Hospital Limerick. I have been…

Limerick City North Labour Councillor Conor Sheehan has called on the people of the Midwest to come together to fight RTE’s decision to downgrade Lyric FM to Dublin and Cork and close RTE’s Limerick studio. In advance of Fridays special council meeting, organised by Cllr Sheehan, the Labour Councillor said: “I called a special meeting…