Cllr. Éilis Ryan Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan has issued a warning to Dublin City Council to take heed of the prices being charged for newly built two-bedroom houses in the neighbourhood of O’Devaney Gardens - a major public plot of land which the council intends to have developed primarily for private housing. [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan The Workers’ Party has reacted sharply to the news that the Department of Social Protection is to get yet another name change and rebrand with a party councillor describing the decision as an expensive frivolity by a government that is obsessed by image. Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan said [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan (WP) The Workers’ Party have said that the withholding of a 70 year old woman’s State Pension for more than 18 months because she refuses to register for a Public Services Card (PSC) is reprehensible and is proof that the card is the genesis of a compulsory national identity card. [...]
Cornmarket Street Market (The Coal Quay) - gap left by stall removed following complaint from owners of "super pub" Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has strongly criticised the City Council’s removal of a modern trading stall from the historic Coal Quay market saying the decision was inexplicable and contrary to the council’s [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party have condemned the decision to award a licence to a private operator, UK bus company “Go Ahead” to take over 10% of Dublin’s bus routes, saying the decision marks a major move towards privatisation of Dublin’s bus services and in making Dublin Bus unviable and ripe for [...]
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 [...]
A Dublin City Councillor has reacted angrily to leaks from the city council's senior management that future regeneration of the city's housing stock would involve public-private partnerships, and a diluted percentage of public housing units. Reacting to reports of the privatisation initiative in today's Sunday Business Post, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party, North Inner City [...]
The Workers' Party have slammed the government's continued refusal to take up a stake in Ireland's oil and gas fields, in the wake of Shell's sale to the Canadian state pension fund. Speaking on the matter, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party) said: "We are now left in a situation where two thirds of the Corrib [...]
The Workers' Party have condemned the "extraordinary delusion" of the government's Summer Economic Statement, which forecasts strong economic growth while ignoring predictions that homelessness will grow. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party, North Inner City Dublin), said: "It is extraordinary to read the government's jubilant forecasts of economic growth of over 4%, when consistent 'economic growth' [...]
WP councillor to boycott meeting citing chair's conflict of interest Cllr. Éilis Ryan Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party, North Inner City Dublin) has stated she will not be engaging with the recently-appointed chairperson of the "Taoiseach's Taskforce" in the North Inner City. The Taskforce was established to oversee regeneration in the north inner city [...]
