local government

Workers’ Party call on Zappone and Rabbitte to put pressure on South Dublin County Council to provide proper accommodation for traveller families

David Gardiner, Workers' Party Public Representative in the North Clondalkin area, has called on the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone and the recently appointed Chairperson of TUSLA, Pat Rabbitte, to pressurise South Dublin County Council into providing proper accommodation for the traveller families living in inhuman conditions on the Scoil Oscar site [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:59+00:00February 28th, 2019|

Owen Keegan must resign, says Workers’ Party Councillor

Cllr. Éilis Ryan has called for the resignation of Dublin City Council chief Owen Keegan, saying: “Astonishingly, Owen Keegan has been paid over a million euro of taxpayer’s money since his appointment in 2013. Today in 2019, the number of people homeless in Dublin is five times greater than it was in 2014 - it [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:00+00:00February 18th, 2019|

New Workers’ Party candidate selected for Cork City North West

A new candidate has been chosen by the Workers’ Party to contest the extended Cork City North West ward in May’s local elections. Catherine Coffey Catherine Coffey , a high profile volunteer worker and community activist, was  selected by the party at a convention in the constituency last week. Following her selection Catherine [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:01+00:00January 21st, 2019|

London warning: Dublin councillors urged not to offload housing to charities

The city council has been warned against handing public housing over to charitable housing bodies, in light of increasing sell-offs of public housing by such bodies in the UK. Cllr. Éilis Ryan was speaking ahead of a vote at next Monday’s (July 2nd) council meeting, on whether to give 52 newly-acquired public housing units in [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:08+00:00June 28th, 2018|

Tynan condemns Sinn Féin support for Cork City budget

Cork city councillor Ted Tynan (Workers’ Party) has condemned Sinn Féin’s decision to back the council’s annual budget last week (Thursday, November 9th). Speaking in reaction to the budget, Cllr. Tynan said: “I voted against the budget for the same reason Sinn Féin said they had voted against the budget in the past - It [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:18+00:00November 13th, 2017|

Established four years ago this week, Irish Water is a complete failure as Meath / Louth crisis continues

The Workers’ Party has described the Louth / Meath area water crisis as “a national disaster” and the party has called for local authority resources from other counties to be brought in to assist in restoring the water supply as a matter of urgency.   WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Meath Workers’ Party [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:23+00:00July 25th, 2017|

Councillor warns Dublin City Council land tendering plan risks repeating PPP failures of the past

Calls for Dublin City Council to use a state company to develop its land instead of PPP A city councillor has warned that Dublin City Council (DCC) is at risk of repeating the disastrous Public-Private Partnership (PPP) failures of the past, with a new multi-county ‘bundle’ approach to developing public land. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:29+00:00April 3rd, 2017|

An Bord Pleanála hearing on Clery’s must focus on €1.5m Council Levy exemption

There have been calls for An Bord Pleanála to examine a €1.5 million council levy exemption granted to developer consortium Natrium, at the planning appeals hearing of the controversial Clery's development which begins tomorrow (Monday). Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan, who will address the appeal hearing tomorrow, will ask why the controversial development has been [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:32+00:00March 19th, 2017|

Workers’ Party walks out of Dublin City Council meeting in protest at Obama Freedom of the City award

Labour Lord Mayor Brendan Carr's choice of candidate for Freedom of Dublin City has provoked strong reaction at Dublin City Council's monthly meeting tonight (6th February). Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party) said: "To grant Dublin's highest honour to a man responsible for inflicting such harm on communities across the globe, does a great disservice to [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:34+00:00February 6th, 2017|

Underfunding local government is an attack on democracy says Tynan

Cllr. Ted Tynan Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the year on year underfunding of Cork City Council represents an ongoing attack on local democracy that is damaging the fabric of the city and its society. Cllr. Tynan said that once again Cork City Council is faced with another annual [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:37+00:00November 15th, 2016|
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