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The Labour Party will host a major international seminar on Brexit in Dublin tomorrow evening, to discuss the ways in which Ireland may be impacted by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Labour leader Brendan Howlin will deliver a key note address at the event, with Senator Ivana Bacik to chair an expert…

Labour spokesperson on Housing, Planning and Local Government, Jan O’Sullivan, will lead a Dáil debate today on Labour’s Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016. Deputy O’Sullivan and Labour leader, Brendan Howlin, will be available to speak to reporters on the Plinth this morning on this and issues of the day. Date: Thursday, December 8th, 2016Time:…

Labour spokesperson on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Alan Kelly, will officially launch the Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016 this evening. Deputy Kelly will be joined by food writer and publisher John McKenna and a host of Irish craft brewers, cider makers and distillers. Date: Wednesday, 7th December 2016 Time: 7-9pm Location: Porterhouse Central,…

Labour spokesperson on Equality, Senator Ged Nash, will today launch a Bill that seeks to have the state recognise the need to exonerate, and apologise to, gay men who were convicted of sexual offences before 1993. Senator Ivana Bacik will also launch legislation that aims to ensure that those same-sex couples whose pension rights are…

Labour spokesperson on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Seán Sherlock, alongside our Environment Spokesperson Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin will today at 12.30pm launch a Bill to be introduced in the Dáil aimed at banning the use of microbeads and other micro-plastics in cosmetics and personal products. Deputy Sherlock and Senator Ó Ríordáin will be…

Labour spokesperson on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Alan Kelly, will today launch the Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016, which is aimed at boosting craft-beer tourism in Ireland by removing a major regulatory barrier for breweries, microbreweries, cider producers and distilleries. Deputy Kelly will be available to speak to reporters at 11.30am on Wednesday,…

Labour Party leader and Justice Spokesperson Brendan Howlin and Senator Kevin Humphreys will be available to speak to reporters at 12pm on the Leinster House plinth on the 200 day anniversary of the Government . Date: Tuesday 22nd November 2016Time: 12pmLocation: The Plinth, Leinster House. END

Labour Housing spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan TD will tomorrow launch a Bill on rent certainty which will be introduced in the Dáil on Tuesday, and Senator Ged Nash will speak on the Seanad bill to be debated on Wednesday that will regulate uncertain hours. They will be available to speak to reporters at 12pm on Tuesday…

Senator’s Ivana Bacik and Ged Nash will be available to speak to reporters at 2pm today, Thursday 10th November outside the Kildare St gates of Leinster House with representatives of the NUJ and SIPTU. This is in advance of the report and final stages of our COMPETITION (AMENDMENT) BILL 2016 at 2.15pm today in the…

Labour Lord Mayor Brendan Carr, and Labour Spokesperson on Dublin Senator Kevin Humphreys will host a political roundtable on proposals for a directly elected Mayor for Dublin on Monday morning at 10.30am in the Mansion House, Dawson St. Date: Monday 24th October 2016Time: 10.30amLocation: Mansion House, Dawson Street.

Labour Education Spokesperson Joan Burton TD and Party Leader Brendan Howlin TD will be available to speak to reporters at 3pm today, Tuesday 18th October on the Leinster House plinth in advance of our private members motion on Education funding and Budget 2017 from 8pm tonight. Motion attached here. Date: Tuesday 18th October 2016Time: 3pmLocation: The Plinth, Leinster…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin, along with Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton and Public Expenditure Spokesperson Seán Sherlock, will launch the Party’s alternative budget tomorrow, 6th October.   Launch : Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. (Map here) Time : 11.30 Date: 6th October 2016

Today Deputy Willie Penrose will host a briefing on his Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016 in the AV Room from 12-2pm, a media opportunity will take place at 11.30am at the Leinster House Gates on Kildare Street with noted Irish musicians Phil Coulter, Johnny Duhan, Michael English, Tony Allen, Sibéal Ní Chasaide and Ruaile Buaile. There’s…

Labour TD for Longford Westmeath, Willie Penrose, will  host a gathering of some of Ireland’s best known musicians to discuss his proposed legislation to guarantee more airtime for music of Irish origin on the country’s airwaves. Under the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016, a quota of at least 40 per cent of the airtime allotted to…

Leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin, members of the Labour Parliamentary Party and Labour councillors will hold a media doorstep today at 1.50pm. Location: Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.  Time: 1.50pm

Notification for the information of media. Neil Ward has been appointed Chief of Staff in the office of the leader of the Labour Party, and will oversee operations in Leinster House. Neil served as special advisor to both Jan O’Sullivan and Ruairí Quinn over recent years, having previously worked in Labour Head Office and in…

MEDIA NOTIFICATION Wednesday 21st September LABOUR TO LAUNCH BILL TO TACKLE UNCERTAIN HOURS CONTRACTS Labour Party Spokesperson on Labour Affairs and Workers’ Rights, Senator Ged Nash, will launch the Party’s Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016 today Wednesday 21st September, 2.00pm Archbishop Square, directly opposite the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Kildare Street…

The Parliamentary Labour Party will hold its Autumn meeting in the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 on 22nd and 23rd of September. The meeting will discuss Labour’s rebuild, new ways of looking at Ireland’s progress, givering every child the right start and the future of work. Media arrangements are as follows: Thursday 5pm – Media…

The Leader of the Labour Party Brendan Howlin, T.D. will attend the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co.Offally this Wednesday the 21st of September with members of the Labour Parliamentary Party. Deputy Howlin along with our Agriculture Spokesperson Willie Penrose TD will be available to the media at 10.45 am outside the National Ploughing Association…

On Saturday, September 17th, Labour Women will hold their bi-annual conference in The Mansion House. Party Leader Brendan Howlin will give a speech at 12.30 where he will unveil a new policy proposal. He will be available to the media at 1pm. At 2pm Joan Burton TD will present the Rosie Hackett Award to TV3’s…

The Parliamentary Labour Party will hold its Autumn think-in in The Mansion House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd of September. A full agenda and details of media arrangements will be available in due course.  

MEDIA NOTIFICATION Sunday 26 June, 2016 LABOUR TO LAUNCH BILL TO ADDRESS RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS TOMORROW Labour Party Education Spokesperson Joan Burton, along with Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, will launch the Party’s Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016 tomorrow. The Bill will be debated in Labour’s Private Members’ time in Dáil Éireann…

The Labour Party has today announced the following nominations for election to the Seanad: Kevin Humphreys – Administrative PanelAodhán Ó Ríordáin – Industrial and Commercial Panel In addition the Party will endorse the following candidates: Denis Landy – Agricultural PanelGerald Nash – Labour Panel ENDS

This morning, Minister Aodhán Ó Riordáin and Senator Lorraine Higgins will launch Labour’s plan for community policing and reform of justice, ‘Standing Up for Safer Communities’. Labour Party Senator Máiría Cahill will also be in attendance and will outline the Labour Party’s proposals on domestic and sexual violence. The document will be formally launched, followed…