Policy

Govt has ideological aversion to state job creation

Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton of having an ideologically driven aversion to creating public sector jobs. Workers’ Party Dublin Councillor Éilis Ryan has said that the launch today of another Jobs Initiative was merely a further throwing of massive sums of money at [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 18th, 2016|

Workers’ Party calls for a large turnout at Right2Water marches

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 [...]

2016-02-15T16:16:15+00:00January 17th, 2016|

Coveney more interested in speculators than citizens

Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as disgraceful the recent comments of Minister Simon Coveney in relation to the delayed commencement of the Events Centre at the former Beamish & Crawford brewery site in Cork city. Councillor Ted Tynan The Minister had been quoted as blaming the delayed commencement of work on [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 15th, 2016|

Dignam welcomes Educate Together Secondary School for Whitehall and Glasnevin

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 14th, 2016|

Dignam slams hand-over of housing lands at Oscar Traynor Rd Dublin

Jimmy Dignam, the Workers' Party representative for Santry and Beaumont, has slammed the handing-over of council-owned land at Oscar Traynor Road to a private developer. Jimmy Dignam, Workers Party Dublin North West Dignam said, 'There are thousands of working-class families on the council waiting list, living in the north-east and north-west areas of [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 13th, 2016|

Ryan condemns Sinn Féin support for sell-off of Dublin City Council lands

                              Cllr. Éilis Ryan  Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City Dublin) has condemned Sinn Féin’s support for the sale of significant tracts of Dublin City Council land to private developers at a meeting of Dublin City Council [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 12th, 2016|

€18m centre will only benefit multinational asset-strippers

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 [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 8th, 2016|

Words not strong enough to describe hospital crisis

Workers’ Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam has said that the government has failed utterly at tackling the hospital beds crisis and is shell-shocked that the Taoiseach’s 2011 predictions of an end to the crisis have been completely wrong. Mr. Dignam said said no amount of hospital tours or stage-managed photo opportunities by Minister [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 6th, 2016|

Minister Kelly rolled-over by developers on apartment size

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 [...]

2016-02-13T09:42:10+00:00December 22nd, 2015|

To PCPE in advance of Spanish general election

Workers' Party of Ireland Head Office: 24a-25 Hill Street, Dublin 1, Ireland To:          The Central Committee,                Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España 18th December 2015 Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings to the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and extends its best wishes, solidarity and [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:55+00:00December 18th, 2015|