To mark International Women’s Day 2018, the Workers’ Party have issued a call for the commencement of a comprehensive programme of actions to separate the Catholic Church from the Irish state. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, speaking for the Workers’ Party, said: “We celebrate International Women’s Day as we approach a momentous referendum which may finally give [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party have issued a proposal for a radically-expanded state pension scheme, in response to the government-issued “Roadmap for Pensions Reform” proposal, released last week. Workers’ Party spokesperson Gavin Mendel-Gleason announced the proposal, saying that the government’s Pensions Roadmap was just a continuation of subsidies to private pension providers: “In [...]
The Workers’ Party have issued a call for rent caps to be introduced across all purpose-built student accommodation, to regulate the rapidly-expanding private student accommodation market. The calls come in the wake of an announcement by Global Student Accommodation (GSA) and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital that they are expanding their investment in the market [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party have today (Thursday) called on Minister for Finance Paschal Donohue to veto proposed bonuses for AIB senior executives. The call comes in response to a proposal contained in AIB’s annual financial report, to effectively double the salaries of a number of senior AIB executives, by issuing them with a [...]
The Workers’ Party have called for urgent changes to the current system of deciding school patronage, in the wake of figures showing a 10% rise in pupil numbers in multi-denominational schools. Speaking on the matter, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party) said: “It is not unexpected that pupil numbers in multi-denominational schools grew by 10% in [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for the state to purchase the buy-to-let mortgages put on the market by Permanent TSB earlier this week. Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan said: “There is €1.5billion worth of buy-to-let mortgages within the Permanent TSB portfolio put on the market earlier this week. That’s likely to be thousands and thousands [...]
The Workers’ Party have condemned Friday’s confirmation from the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) that excess water charges are to be introduced from 2019. Speaking on the matter, Workers’ Party representative Séamus McDonagh said: “We have to assume that this is a way of introducing water charges by the back door, plain and [...]
The Workers’ Party has today (Monday) called for the introduction of a mandatory scheme of vaccination for all children who use shared childcare and education schemes, including créches, play facilities, and public and private schools. The call comes in the wake of figures released today showing Ireland’s rate of uptake of tetanus and meningitis vaccinations [...]
The Workers’ Party have criticised comments made by Minister for Health Simon Harris today (Tuesday), who indicated that GPs would have a right to conscientious objection in relation to the provision of abortion in the future. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City), said abortion needed to become an integrated part of normal healthcare [...]
Lorraine Hennessy The Workers’ Party in Dublin Mid West has expressed deep concern that the currently proposed development of the new suburb of Clonburris will repeat most of the serious errors of the past and will create another incomplete, isolated and broken neighbourhood. Local Workers’ Party representative Lorraine Hennessy said: “The proposal to [...]