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Labour is a party of opportunity
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartySpeaking at the launch of the Labour Party General Election Campaign Colleagues, friends, members of the media, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you here to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre for the formal launch of The Labour Party’s General Election campaign. This is…
Read more »Labour at heart of this recovery
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartySpeaking at the launch of the Labour Party General Election Campaign ‘Brilliant and balanced’ Not my words – those of the European Commissioner. Describing an economy that six years ago Fianna Fáil drove off the cliff. And the Commissioner is right. It is a remarkable…
Read more »Labour will sustain a robust recovery to raise living standards
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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…
Read more »No one believes Fianna Fail’s crocodile tears over housing – McCarthy
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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…
Read more »Labour has done more for climate change than Greens ever did
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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…
Read more »Micheal Martin is the Bobby Ewing of Irish Politics
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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”,…
Read more »Do FF and SF not believe in full employment?
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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…
Read more »European Commission forecasts give the lie to opposition claims on economy – Howlin
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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…
Read more »Labour will deliver a job for everyone who wants one by 2018 – Burton & Nash
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – 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…
Read more »Martin wrong to claim credit for clearing up the mess he helped cause
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyEarlier today Micheal Martin had the gall to claim that the economic recovery is down to the work of the previous Fianna Fail administration. Let us remind him of his comments at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis in 2012 where he quite explicitly admitted that…
Read more »Slab Murphy not standing in general election, but Gerry Adams is
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyWhile the Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, wants to pretend that the case of his friend Slab Murphy is irrelevant to the General Election campaign, the fact is that the nature of their relationship is something voters should think long and hard about over the…
Read more »New energy poverty strategy to target people with acute health conditions and those in rented accommodation
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour Party €20m for pilot targeting people with acute health conditions Public consultation on minimum energy efficiency standards for rental accommodation Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) study of consumer switching Minister for Energy Alex White today (Tuesday) published A Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty, which outlines…
Read more »‘Grace’ case erodes confidence in HSE – Cahill
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyLeader, I am calling for a debate on the following issue, which concerns allegations of abuse within a foster home and what the HSE knew. I want to firstly put on record that my heart goes out to the woman at the centre of this,…
Read more »Minister Nash welcomes continuing fall in unemployment figures
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyJobless total at its lowest rate in seven years of 8.6% The Minister for Business and Employment Ged Nash TD has welcomed new figures that show the unemployment rate is at its lowest level in seven years. The figures published by the Central Statistics…
Read more »New school for Gaelscoil Bharra welcome
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyMinister for Education Jan O’Sullivan visited Gaelscoil Bharra this morning to announce to the pupils and parents that the new school is to be built immediately. The news is most welcome because a generation of children of Cabra have been studying in dilapidated prefabs—too hot…
Read more »Labour’s fair tax plan will abolish USC for low and middle income earners
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyLabour’s fair tax plan will deliver for low and middle-income workers by abolishing USC on the first €72,000 of individual income and reducing PRSI for the lowest-paid workers. The plan will put more than €1,100 a year back in the pocket of a worker on…
Read more »Tánaiste welcomes further drop in unemployment
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyBehind every new job is a person or family benefitting from recovery The Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton T.D., has welcomed the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office showing 30,500 fewer people unemployed. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6% in January,…
Read more »White welcomes Irish Postmaster Union’s decision on election candidates
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyMinister for Communications Alex White has welcomed the Irish Postmasters Union’s (IPU) decision to focus on the implementation of the Bobby Kerr report into the future viability of post offices, rather than fielding candidates in the forthcoming general election. Minister White said: “I established the…
Read more »Launch of a new Leaving Certificate subject, Politics and Society
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyJan O’Sullivan TD, Minister for Education and Skills, launched Phase 1 of the implementation of a new Leaving Certificate subject, Politics and Society, in Limerick on Monday 1st February. The launch event was organised by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and also featured…
Read more »Kelly announces new €40 million fire service capital programme 2016 – 2020
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyAlan Kelly, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has today, Monday 1st February 2016, announced details of a new €40m programme of construction / refurbishment of 26 fire stations for the five year period 2016 – 2020. The programme will see 16…
Read more »White expresses concern at results of civil service Employee Engagement Survey
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyMinister for Communications Alex White today (Friday) said he was concerned at the widespread perception among civil servants that their work was not valued by the public. Responding to yesterday’s publication of the Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey, which found that just 15% of civil…
Read more »Costello welcomes funding for mental health & addiction needs of homeless
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyDeputy Joe Costello has welcomed today’s announcement by the Minister for Mental Health, Social Care and Primary Care, Kathleen Lynch, of an extra €2 million to address the mental health and addiction needs of homeless people in Dublin. Deputy Costello stated: “This additional funding will…
Read more »Deputy Pat Rabbitte delivers his final speech to Dail Eireann
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour Party“The Banking Inquiry has done the State some service for which future economic historians will be grateful” Dáil Eireann gave the members of the Banking Inquiry an almost impossible mission given the restrictions, constitutional and legal, in which they had to operate. We owe the…
Read more »Disappointment as Independent disarray stalls new Sexual Offences Bill
Press Archives – Page 170 of 174 – The Labour PartyIt was disappointing to see that the Technical Group and Independents could not agree to work with all other parties in the Dail today to make sure that the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 is passed into law. Deputy Catherine Murphy, speaking for the…
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