The Workers’ Party have offered their full support and solidarity to nurses and midwives, due to take strike action on 30th January, and said that the strike shows up twenty years of decimation of the public sector by successive right-wing governments. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, Workers’ Party representative in Dublin and candidate in the 2019 European [...]
WP calls for public ownership of health and education assets The Workers’ Party yesterday (Thursday) held the Waterford launch of a new policy document, The Future is Secular charting a path towards state-owned public services. As well as an analysis of the ownership of both education and health assets, the document proposes a process of [...]
The Workers’ Party have said the government must back the Digital Sales Tax, proposed by the European Commission, if they are serious about taxing mega-corporations. The turnover tax would involve taxing all digital transactions in the country in which they take place, as opposed to just the profits the companies in question record at the [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party have called for all state and semi-state companies to withdraw investments from Saudi Arabia. The call comes as the United Nations warned that 14 million people face starvation due to the Saudi-led bombing and embargo in Yemen. Workers’ Party representative in Cabra-Finglas, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, said: “It has come [...]
Seamus McDonagh The Workers' Party has called for the Clerk of Works to be given responsibility and resourcing for all new building inspections in every local authority, in the wake of the nationwide school buildings crisis. Séamus McDonagh represents the Meath area for the Workers Party, where a number of schools risk closure. He [...]
A Workers' Party councillor has called on the OPW to reverse its decision to sell two residential sites which it owns in Dublin city. The sites are due to be auctioned by Lambert Smith Hampton on November 6th. Cllr. Éilis Ryan said: "It is extraordinary that at the height of the housing crisis, we wake [...]
100% interest relief amounts to an increased annual tax break of €100 per landlord The Workers’ Party have said it is immoral of the government to hand a €120 million tax break to landlords who have consistently raised rents throughout the housing crisis. Responding to the Fine Gael / Fianna Fáil sponsored budget, announced today [...]
The Workers’ Party is calling on our members and supporters to vote for the best candidate in the field, Michael D. Higgins, in the upcoming Presidential elections on October 26th. President Higgins stands out from the other candidates in the field as having the aim of building a more equal society based on peace and [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for an urgent government response to the latest research, published this week, listing Ireland as the world’s biggest tax haven. Workers’ Party city councillor Éilis Ryan said: “A report released yesterday by researchers in the University of California (Berkeley), shows that 50% of the foreign profits of US multinationals were [...]
Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan has called on the Minister for Health and the HSE to act urgently to restore full inpatient paediatric services at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoighaire. Cllr. Ryan said it was a matter of grave concern that a vital service for children such as that provided at the [...]