Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party have called for the HSE to establish a plan to move all home helps into direct employment by the state health agency. The call comes in the wake of repeated scandals relating to the the exploitation of home helps by the private agencies who employ them. Speaking on [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party have criticised the government’s 2017 Report on Housing Delivery, saying they show nothing except a forced increase in reliance on private landlords. Responding to the Report, Workers’ Party representative Gavin Mendel-Gleason said: “These figures are not a good news story. The only area of so-called “housing delivery” that has [...]
Sinn Féin, Labour and some independents today voted down a proposal from Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan to bring into force a ban on all for-profit development on publicly-owned land. Speaking following the vote, Cllr. Ryan said: “Why, in the midst of a housing crisis, should a private developer be entitled to make profit by [...]
Dublin City Council have come under attack for a U-Turn tonight (Monday), in which council officials acknowledged that the ‘affordable’ housing component of their housing development plans will require a full giveaway of land to private developers. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party) responded to the comments made by city council Deputy CEO Brendan Kenny saying: [...]
The Workers’ Party have called for fees for postgraduate teaching degrees to be scrapped as an urgent measure to address the collapse in numbers of applicants to train as teachers. Cllr. Ryan said: “It is perfectly clear what has caused this collapse. The course fees and expenses to train to be a teacher doubled, and [...]
A city councillor has called for the introduction of an emergency ban on office development in the docklands, following a report from Owen Reilly that office space was set to well outstrip residential development in Dublin’s docklands. The proposal comes on foot of a 35,000 square metre office development being granted permission in the docklands [...]
O'Devaney Gardens Dublin City Councillors will tonight (Wednesday) vote on a proposal from the Workers’ Party to ban private, for-profit housing development on Dublin City Council owned lands. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) is proposing the motion, and said: “Yesterday saw the announcement of a national demonstration in April to [...]
Publicly-owned housing stock needs to grow by 500% in order to meet demand Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party) has today (Tuesday) issued figures which reveal that Dublin’s publicly-owned housing stock is less than a sixth of what would be required to meet current demand. Cllr. Ryan said: “Figures released to me from Dublin City Council [...]
Debate dominated by demands for expanded public services The Workers’ Party held its annual Ard Fheis over the weekend against a background of continuing election speculation. Over 200 delegates from across Ireland debated a range of motions, with demands for expanded public service taking centre stage. The Workers’ Party will be contesting the constituencies of [...]
Some of attendance at 2016 Ard Fheis The Workers’ Party holds its Ard Fheis / Annual Delegate Conference in Dublin this weekend with a wide range of motions on economic, social and international issues . The Ard Fheis opens this evening (Friday) at the Communications Workers Union hall in the North Inner City [...]