News – The Labour PartySpeaking at the Labour Party General Election campaign launch: Five years ago this week, the 30th Dail was dissolved amid unprecedented political and economic crisis. Our country was bankrupt. The economy was in freefall. The Fianna Fail-led government had ceased to function. On that occasion, the Labour Party asked the people…

News – The Labour PartyLabour will sustain and spread the recovery and create an economy and a society that works for working people, the Tánaiste and Labour Party Leader, Joan Burton TD, said today. Speaking at the formal launch of the Labour Party’s campaign in Dublin, the Tánaiste said Labour would continue to manage the…

News – The Labour PartyNo one believes Fianna Fail’s crocodile tears today over housing provision in the State.  They are an insult to the thousands of families who have been consigned to lengthy waiting lists thanks to the massive legacy issue that is Fianna Fail’s botched housing policy while in power.   Micheal Martin has…

News – The Labour PartyEamon Ryan’s comments on climate change are frankly unbelievable. He claims one of the only reasons he went into government with Fianna Fail was to deliver climate change legislation, which he then utterly failed to do.   I’m happy to discuss climate change with Eamon Ryan any day of the week.   In…

News – The Labour PartyWants everyone to forget that Fianna Fail crashed the country Two days into this campaign and Micheal Martin is already tying himself in knots over Fianna Fail’s ruinous economic record. Yesterday, Deputy Martin said the 2012 apology he made for Fianna Fail’s economic recklessness “stands”, yet wasn’t prepared to say if…

News – The Labour PartyEarlier today Labour launched a comprehensive plan to ensure there is a job for everyone who wants one by 2018. The plan is built on investing in people, helping companies access the funding they need to grow, investing in innovation and providing better supports for start-ups. It is astonishing that Fianna…

News – The Labour PartyThe Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin TD, has described this morning’s European Commission economic forecasts as a “ringing endorsement of the Irish economy and this Government’s handling of the crisis it inherited from Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil”. “If the Irish people need a further reason not to…

News – The Labour PartyTánaiste and Labour Party Leader Joan Burton, and Business and Employment Minister Ged Nash, launched ‘Standing up for Jobs’, the Labour Party’s plan for full employment by 2018 this morning in Drogheda. Labour plans to: Deliver a job for everyone who wants one by 2018 and will do this by investing in people, in…