The Workers' Party submission to the Department of Education and Skills with reference to the New Education Strategy 2016-2018 highlights a number of salient points regarding our education system in general and more specifically regarding education proposals contained in the Programme for a Partnership Government 2016.
Cllr. Ted Tynan (Cork) Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has accused the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) of becoming the leading cheerleader of a low wage economy following the ESRI’s latest report which, according to Cllr. Tynan, seeks to justify the exploitation of workers. Cllr. Tynan said that the report, which [...]
The attached submission has been sent to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister for Education with regard to the development of a new Strategy for Education and Skills (2016 – 2018) on behalf of the Workers’ Party, Dublin Mid-West Constituency. Mid-West has vast areas of poverty and educational deprivation with extremely low accession rates to third level. [...]
Workers’ Party says inclusion of school-day faith formation in nominally multi-denominational schools is evidence of the need for a state-run, secular education system Cllr. Éilis Ryan Reacting to comments made by Minister for Education Richard Bruton that he favoured the expansion of ‘Community National Schools,’ Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Dublin [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that only a comprehensive job creation programme providing sustainable long-term employment with decent pay and conditions will be acceptable as a replacement for the JobBridge scheme which, it has been announced, is to end in September. Jimmy Dignam Workers’ Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam said that [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan, "Essential council services must come first" Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that he could not in conscience support a loan request for €200,000 by Cork City Council to the Cork Film Festival committee at a time when the council’s services remain seriously curtailed due to cutbacks in its [...]
The Workers Party has flatly rejected claims by the Department of Social Protection that criticism of the JobBridge internship scheme is unfounded. Low paid and exploitation encouraged by JobBridge Dublin North West Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam said that far from being an unbalanced or unfounded representation of the extent of exploitation under [...]
Time to repudiate the McCarthy Report on the sale of State Assets Cllr. Ted Tynan, the Workers’ Party candidate in Cork North Central has said that the massive backlash against water charges and Irish Water had put the outgoing government’s privatisation plans seriously on the back foot but he feared these plans could be revived [...]
“People want to see action in bricks and mortar not meaningless promises” Meath East Workers’ Party candidate Seamus McDonagh has said the individuals and families on the County Meath housing waiting list are in total despair and will not be deceived by weasel words this time. They will only believe there is an end to [...]
Workers Party Dublin Central candidate Cllr. Éilis Ryan has said that the involvement of NATO, the United States and other military forces in anti-terror training at the Templemore Garda training college in Co. Tipperary will only increase Ireland’s potential exposure to terrorism. "Cllr. Ryan was reacting to reports in today’s (Thursday) Irish Independent that NATO-funded [...]
