Cllr. Ted Tynan Cllr. Ted Tynan of The Worker's Party has accused the National Transport Authority and the Department of Transport of being responsible for the present dire financial situation in Bus Éireann. Cllr. Tynan said that since it was set up the NTA has been undermining actively Bus Éireann by issuing licences [...]
The DUP / Sinn Fein Coalition has consistently failed to deliver The Workers Party has condemned as ‘irresponsible’ Sinn Fein’s decision to resign from the Executive and trigger an Assembly election. ‘Today’s resignation will solve nothing. The RHI scandal will remain unaddressed, the waste of public money will continue, there will be no [...]
A Dublin City Councillor has criticised council officials’ decision to reject NAMA social housing offers because of concerns about ‘tenure mix.’ Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City), was responding to reports that Dublin City Council rejected over a quarter of properties offered to it by NAMA in 2016 because of concerns around ‘tenure [...]
Unoccupied hospital bed- a rare sight in Ireland's public hospitals The Workers’ Party have said that the latest increase in the number of patients on hospital trolleys in Ireland today has gone beyond an emergency and now requires bold and immediate action by the government. Cork based Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has [...]
The Workers’ Party states its full and complete support for the courageous actions of the activists who have established housing units in the Apollo House block in Dublin to accommodate members of the homeless community. Workers’ Party President, Mickey Donnelly, said: “This action, of taking a disused property and making it a place of refuge [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that the announcement that the 2017 HSE Service Plan will budget for 24,000 fewer Medical Cards is a plain admission that severe health cuts are back on the agenda and seriously undermines the government’s claims of a recovery in the economy. Dublin Central Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that [...]
WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party have said that Housing Minister Simon Coveney and his colleagues can bring in bills on various aspects of housing rental until the cows come home but none of these will have any significant effect on the housing crisis as long as the government refuses to [...]
The Workers' Party has made a formal submission to the Citizen's Assembly demanding a referendum for the complete removal of the 8th Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann / The Constitution of Ireland. You can view / download the Workers' Party submission by clicking the following link:- workers-party-submission-to-citizens%27-assembly-on-8th-amendment-1
To accompany Solidarity Housing, the Workers’ Party’s policy for 100% public mixed income housing, the Workers’ Party have launched a proposal for a public housing corporation, to fund and manage the scale of public housing required to tackle the housing crisis. The proposal would enable borrowing within EU rules, to fund long-term, large-scale building of [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has this morning launched its public housing finance policy, “Financial Aspects of a Solution to the Irish Housing Crisis”. The launch comes ahead of this afternoon’s city council vote on whether to sell O’Devaney Gardens – a 14 acre site of city council land formerly used for [...]
