Responding to the latest Simon Community housing report ‘‘Locked Out of the Market III: The Gap Between Rent Supplement/HAP Limits and Market Rents’’, Jimmy Dignam, The Workers’ Party candidate for Dublin North West, said that it highlighted the urgent need for the proper rent controls to ensure affordable rents for tenants in the private sector. [...]
Workers' Party Dublin North West candidate Jimmy Dignam has urged the government to start taking the crisis in the health system seriously. Speaking in response to the news that Beaumont Hospital is postponing non-urgent procedures today, Dignam said, "the Government and Minister Varadkar need to stop sitting on their hands pretending the crisis has nothing [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for a large turnout at next Saturday’s nationwide Right2Water marches. Party spokesman and Meath East candidate Seamus McDonagh has said a clear message needs to be given to both the government and the opposition parties that the issue of water charges was not going away and would be a major [...]
Workers' Party representative for Whitehall and Glasnevin, Jimmy Dignam, has welcomed the news that an Educate Together Secondary School is to open in the area in September. Dignam stated, The announcement by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Educate Together that the new school will be co-located in the building currently occupied [...]
Seamus McDonagh (WP) Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has hit out at Junior Minister Damien English following the announcement that €18 million of taxpayers’ money is being spent on a new Geo-Science research unit at UCD. Mr. McDonagh said that the announcement was a sop to the multi-nationals such as the [...]
The Workers’ Party has accused Environment Minister Alan Kelly of cravenly capitulating to property developers in relation to the minimum size of so-called studio apartments in the Dublin region which can now be 27% smaller than the previous maximum size. Dublin Central Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan said that the new regulations amounted to a [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan (WP) The Workers’ Party this evening expressed disappointment at Sinn Féin’s refusal to rule out supporting the sale of public housing in the future. Speaking after a special meeting of Dublin City Council this evening, called to discuss a Sinn Féin motion on the matter, Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan [...]
The Workers' Party extends its full solidarity with all INMO members and emergency department workers who are taking strike action tomorrow (Tuesday 15th October). Jimmy Dignam, Dublin North-West representative, stated: “I will be present at tomorrow's picket line at Beaumont hospital to show my full solidarity with the striking emergency department workers. The fact that [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the shocking levels of fuel poverty revealed in the Unite union study published today exposes the true misery of Christmas for a huge number of families in Cork and across the state. Cllr. Tynan said that the Unite report had utterly destroyed [...]
Jimmy Dignam, WP candidate Dublin Nth West Workers’ Party spokesperson Jimmy Dignam has said that the reported spurt in economic growth making headlines across the state today is just an illusion for the great majority of working class people who have experienced little or no recovery while many more have seen their personal [...]
