Last night's "uncontrolled explosion" at the Covanta-run Poolbeg incinerator demonstrates the irresponsibility of handing waste management services over to the private sector, according to Cllr. Éilis Ryan of the Workers' Party. Speaking following the incident, Cllr. Ryan said: "Covanta have an atrocious safety record, operating in a field which is highly sensitive both in terms [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan The Workers’ Party have said that the latest crisis at Irish Rail is the result of years of underfunding and one of the lowest levels of state subvention per capita in Europe. Cllr. Ted Tynan, Workers’ Party Cork City councillor, said that there seemed to be a clear choreography in [...]
The Workers' Party have condemned the 30-year "corporation tax holiday" the government is granting AIB in order to attract private investors in the state bank. Workers' Party representative Gavin Mendel-Gleason said: Its extraordinary that, for the period AIB has been in state hands, loopholes allowing the bank to avoid corporation tax have been closed off. [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned AIB’s plans to escalate the sale of its bad loan books, in order to entice investors to buy shares in the state-owned bank. Workers’ Party representative for Dublin Northwest, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, was responding to comments made yesterday (Wednesday) by AIB Chief Executive Bernard Byrne that AIB intended to clear its [...]
Workers’ Party Dublin North West representative Gavin Mendel-Gleason has described as deeply worrying the fact that the government is receiving advice from investments banks such as Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank on the possible sale of AIB Mendel-Gleason said: "It is shocking to think that Merrill Lynch could have any involvement in providing advice to [...]
Seamus McDonagh Workers’ Party representative for Meath, Séamus McDonagh, has called on the government to introduce legislation immediately to implement the Supreme Court’s ruling today (Tuesday) that asylum seekers must be given the right to work. Reacting to the judgement, McDonagh said: “It is not exactly a surprise that denying adults resident in Ireland [...]
The profits now being made off assets previously controlled by NAMA show the madness of the government’s “Sell-Off Strategy,” according to the Workers’ Party. Comments released by Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) were sparked by news that Hibernia REIT, whose asset portfolio contains a large number of former NAMA-controlled properties, expected to [...]
PAME protest in Athens today (17.05.2017) The Workers' Party has sent the following message to PAME, the Greek All Workers Militant Front on the occasion of the Greek General Strike organised by PAME and May Demonstrations and Rallies across Greece. Dear comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland sends warm greetings and extends its [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan The Workers’ Party has said that the announcement that Taoiseach Enda Kenny will stand down as leader of Fine Gael tonight and as Taoiseach once that party elects a new leader will be met with indifference by the vast majority of workers and their families and by the wider working [...]
In the wake of the announced closure of a creche in Drumcondra to make way for a Lidl development, the Workers’ Party have raised queries as to how the creche demolition was not spotted by the planning authorities when revieiwing Lidl’s planning application. Speaking following the announcement today (Friday) of the creche’s closure, Workers’ Party [...]
