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Cllr. calls for ‘emergency cutbacks reversal’ for Dublin north inner city community development projects in wake of latest shooting

Cllr. Éilis Ryan Dublin Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan (North Inner City) has called for the Minister for Justice to mandate an immediate, emergency reversal of cutbacks to community development services in the Northeast Inner City, in the wake of the latest shooting in the area, at Avondale House on Tuesday morning. Cllr. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 25th, 2016|

Real jobs with decent pay and conditions must be the replacement for JobBridge

The Workers’ Party have said that only a comprehensive job creation programme providing sustainable long-term employment with decent pay and conditions will be acceptable as a replacement for the JobBridge scheme which, it has been announced, is to end in September. Jimmy Dignam Workers’ Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam said that [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 23rd, 2016|

“Private waste companies will continue to raise recycling fees, despite scrapping of minimum government charges”

Cllr. Éilis Ryan Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, Dublin North Inner City) has said that the government’s announcement that it was scrapping minimum recycling charges will make little difference to many households in areas such as the capital’s north inner city who already pay for recycling. Cllr. Ryan said: “The reality is that, [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 19th, 2016|

Citizens’ Assembly would force 13,000 more women out of Ireland to seek abortions

Workers' Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, is calling on the newly established government to hold a referendum on the 8th Amendment to the constitution early in the lifetime of the present Dáil. Cllr. Éilis Ryan Cllr. Ryan said: “It is abundantly clear from numerous media polls that this is the wish of [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 18th, 2016|

Tynan opposes €200k council loan to Cork Film Festival

Cllr. Ted Tynan, "Essential council services must come first" Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that he could not in conscience support a loan request for €200,000 by Cork City Council to the Cork Film Festival committee at a time when the council’s services remain seriously curtailed due to cutbacks in its [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 16th, 2016|

Workers’ Party publishes costed proposal for cross-subsidised public housing

Fr. Peter McVerry welcomes ‘Solidarity Housing’ as important contribution to thinking on housing ‘Solidarity Housing’ model would expand public housing provision at reduced cost to State Proposals form viable state-led alternative to Housing Land Initiative The Workers’ Party today (Monday May 9th) published Solidarity Housing: Getting the vultures out of Irish Housing, a costed proposal [...]

2016-05-09T09:37:02+00:00May 8th, 2016|

Workers’ Party call on government-bound TDs to take a stand on TTIP

Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called on those independent TDs currently contemplating doing a deal to return Enda Kenny and Fine Gael to government to make an issue of the  the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and demand an end to the secrecy surrounding the subject. Workers’ Party Dublin Central Councillor [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:47+00:00May 4th, 2016|

Cancer report shows damning income based healthcare bias

The Workers’ Party have said that a new report by the Irish Cancer Society into waiting times for people requiring urgent medical investigation or treatment into potentially life-threatening cancers is a damning indictment of Ireland’s class and income based health care system. Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan said that the report clearly showed a [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 26th, 2016|

JobBridge encourages low-pay and “battery hen” working conditions

The Workers Party has flatly rejected claims by the Department of Social Protection that criticism of the JobBridge internship scheme is unfounded. Low paid and exploitation encouraged by JobBridge Dublin North West Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam said that far from being an unbalanced or unfounded representation of the extent of exploitation under [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 25th, 2016|

Cllr. Ted Tynan condemns racist attack and calls for restoration of Community Garda service

Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has strongly condemned last Monday night’s vicious attack against a Polish family in Mayfield, saying racist attacks are completely unacceptable in any area. Cllr. Tynan, who has spoken to many local residents on a number of occasions since Monday, described the attack as despicable and has called for the restoration and [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:48+00:00April 14th, 2016|