Citizens’ Assembly puts ball in Fine Gael court to legislate for freely available abortion Workers' Party activists including Seamus McDonagh with the party's Repeal the 8th Amendment banner in Dublin last week The Workers’ Party has said that the concluding votes of the Citizens’ Assembly show a clear mandate for freely available access to [...]
The Workers Party has slammed what it says is Fine Gael's decision to delegate women's healthcare to a handful of people. Reacting to this afternoon's announcement that the Citizens' Assembly would not be recommending the repeal of the eighth amendment, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers Party) said: "What we have here is yet another example [...]
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
The Workers’ Party have accused the government of hiding behind the Citizen’s Assembly in relation to this week’s AAA/PBP Dáil motion calling for referendum to repeal the 8th amendment. Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said that it was clear that the Citizen’s Assembly was merely a mechanism to allow the government to kick fraught issues [...]
The Workers' Party has welcomed the recent decision of the United Nations Human Rights Committee which found that Ireland's criminalisation and prohibition of abortion violates this country’s human rights obligations. Cllr. Éilis Ryan Dublin Central Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan said, “this party applauds the courage of Amanda Mellet in taking her case [...]
