Labour Party
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🌹Tomorrow, Labour colleagues are bringing a motion to the Dáil on the growing digital divide and the hidden costs of going back to school. 📚A relationship with school should be built on education. Not fees. No family should be pushed into debt just to get their child ready for the classroom.
Ivana Bacik: It's time that religious institutions paid their dues and were held to account for historical child abuse... jrnl.ie/7079116
Ivana Bacik: Religious orders must be compelled to pay redress for child abuse
Appeals to Christian morality have not worked, it’s time these institutions paid their dues and were held to account.
jrnl.ie
Delighted to be in #Galway last night to attend launch of #GalwayInternationalArtsFestival 2026. Great to be there with our @labour.ie Councillors. Wonderful speech from Mayor Helen Ogbu !
Watch this if you’re wondering how I’ll vote today on a ban on alumina exports to #Russia ⬆️ Standing with #Ukraine cannot be empty words. No fuelling Putin’s war machine through #AughinishAlumina 🇺🇦
Very disappointed to see Gov winning the Dáil vote tonight on my #Redress Bill - this means further progress on the Bill is delayed for 6 months. Vitally important we get this Bill passed - to ensure justice for survivors of institutional child sex abuse. #FairShareForSurvivors
❗️Drug use is a HEALTH issue, not a criminal one! ➡️ The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use has just published a report recommending the decriminalisation of drugs for personal use. ❗️We can’t let the government off on this, we have to keep pushing
Government is failing victims of domestic violence as the refuge crisis deepens. It is deeply alarming that almost 1,900 women were turned away from domestic violence services over a six month period. Behind every one of these figures is a woman seeking safety. 🔗 labour.ie/news/2026/06...
Paid leave for pregnancy loss “does not go far enough,” says @labour.ie dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/... #PLRG_PLACESproject
Paid leave for pregnancy loss "does not go far enough," says Labour
Labour TD and health spokesperson Marie Sherlock has said that government plans to introduce paid leave for pregnancy loss "do not go far enough"
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10% of Ireland’s homeless population lives here on Gardiner Street & the leader of the @socialistsanddemocrats.eu has now seen it firsthand. We need to put these human stories at the heart of Ireland’s EU presidency & deliver urgent European action on #homelessness and affordable #housing.
At last! 5 long years since Labour bill started in the Seanad, passed all stages and moved to the Dáil. Thinking of all those women over the years who had to suffer on the double with no access to compassionate leave. www.independent.ie/irish-news/w...
Women who miscarry or have abortion will get paid leave under new plan being considered by coalition
Government moves to introduce new law after Northern Ireland and Malta brought in similar measures
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Welcome to Dublin @iratxegarper.bsky.social, President of the @socialistsanddemocrats.eu 🇪🇺🇮🇪 With Ireland’s EU presidency kicking off next week, I showed her the real challenges Dublin faces in #housing, workers’ rights & cost of living. We are working to ensure Europe delivers for working people.
What a knee jerk, anti evidence, disingenuous response👇 161 recommendations, 134 pages, hundreds of hours of committee hearings & yet Minister dismisses key recommendation just a day after publication And mischaracterises depenalisation as legalisation www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
No plans to decriminalise possession of drugs - minister
The Minister with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy has said there are no plans to decriminalise possession of all drugs - contrary to the recommendation of an Oireachtas committee.
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We cannot appeal to the morality of religious orders to pay their share of redress to survivors of institutional piece. Read my Op-Ed in @thejournal.ie today ahead of the debate on our @labour.ie Bill to compel institutions to pay redress this week in the Dáil. www.thejournal.ie/readme/catho...
Ivana Bacik: Religious orders must now be compelled to pay redress for child abuse
Appeals to Christian morality have not worked; it’s time these institutions paid their dues and were held to account.
thejournal.ie
Powerful report on how victims of abuse in #Dunderrow have been failed by the state. We need justice for survivors. I call on Gov to support my #Redress Bill this Thursday in the Dáil - to ensure accountability for those responsible for abuse in both church & state authorities.
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RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last mo.Victims of sexual abuse at a Co Cork national school in the 1960s and 1970s have called on the Government to take responsibility for the trauma they suffered as children.
📺Speaking on This Week in Politics, we discussed Aughinish Alumina and Ireland's continued exports to Russia. 🇺🇦Ukraine must win. Russia must lose. Ireland and the EU must ensure that our trade and industrial policies do not weaken our support for Ukraine or strengthen Putin's ability to wage war.
Fine Gael have claimed Ireland has been overwhelmed by migration. Playing the immigrant card to deflect Government failures in housing and the cost of living is factually incorrect & lowest common denominator politics. 📻 Listen to my take on Newstalk with Claire Byrne this morning.
Good luck to all the #LeavingCert and #JuniorCert students starting exams today!
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo agoThe State Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle written exams begin this morning with record numbers of students registered.
A pleasure to visit @labour.ie Mayor of Waterford Seamus Ryan, Deputy Mayor John Pratt and Cllr. Thomas Phelan in Waterford this week.
Important to bring my @socialistsanddemocrats.eu colleague Irene Tinagli (chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Housing Crisis) to Oliver Bond Flats today. This is why it matters. Housing isn't an abstract policy debate. It's people's lives.
Delighted to give the keynote address at today’s powerful #BlackandIrish #APNI conference - well done to all!
I spoke to @newstalkfm.bsky.social this morning about the European Parliament Housing Committee's mission to Dublin this week. I am both proud and ashamed to welcome my European colleagues to my city - Proud of Dublin and its people. Ashamed that so many families are being failed by the system.
📍First stop on the EU Housing Committee Mission to Dublin: Focus Ireland. ❗️What we need: more social housing, more affordable homes, and the long-term public investment required to ensure genuine housing security for everyone.
Polls are now open! And we have two amazing #Labour candidates In #GalwayWest - vote Number 1 #HelenOgbu In #DublinCentral - vote Number 1 #RuthO’Dea #VoteLeftTransferLeft
#Poverty is a political choice. It must be ended. It is that simple. The EU Anti-Poverty Strategy is a a necessary first step, but it is just that. We need proper investment and we need concrete action if we are to eradicate poverty. 🎥 My speech in the chamber of the European Parliament today.
Great to be out canvassing over recent evenings with our brilliant #DublinCentral @labour.ie candidate Ruth O’Dea - and with local TD @mariesherlock.bsky.social !
Dublin Central, please give Ruth O’Dea your No. 1 this Friday! #byelection #dublincentral
It was wonderful to meet a good friend - and national icon - while out canvassing in Galway on Friday with the amazing #HelenOgbu #MakeHistory #GaillimhOgbu
Deeply concerning to see Irish citizens detained. We need effective sanctions against #Israel & urgent passage of the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill
Irish Independent@independent.ie · 3mo agoThe flotilla has posted videos from Dr Connolly and five others, which appear to have been recorded in advance of their detention www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
