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Social Democrats co-leaders Róisín Shortall TD and Catherine Murphy TD today paid warm tributes to women’s rights campaigner Sylvia Meehan who passed away today. “Throughout her life, Sylvia was an inspirational leader and role model for women’s rights and equality in the workplace and wider society.” Social Democrats co-leaders Róisín Shortall TD and Catherine Murphy […]

The Social Democrats have called on the Pope to acknowledge the complicity of the Catholic Church in clerical child sexual abuse in Ireland, and to commit to mandatory reporting across the world of all cases of child sexual abuse. “Ultimately actions speak louder than words and we’ve heard the apologies before. It’s long past time to move on […]

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said today it is morally repugnant that a State-backed corporate landlord has attempted to flout legal rent controls. The Minister for Housing needs to send a clear signal to corporate landlords that this kind of behaviour is morally repugnant, particularly at a time of chronic housing shortages and when […]

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall TD today called on the Minister for Health to intervene to compel the HSE to release smear slides to women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy so they can be independently reviewed. “It is totally shocking that the government is presiding over a situation where our carbon emissions are actually going […]

Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy said that yesterday’s Central Bank Report is a damning indictment of the banking culture in Ireland and gives lie to the Government announcement earlier this month that there is ‘no compelling case’ for a public banking model. “The creation of a publicly owned community banking system – such as operates […]

Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy has said she is disappointed but not surprised that government have chosen not to proceed with a  model of public banking which could have allowed citizens to access financial products and services without being at the mercy of what has proven itself to be an unscrupulous and unreliable private banking […]

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD has called on the Taoiseach to clarify his  reported remarks in New York which were critical of the Irish media and RTÉ’s Primetime in particular. “It is unfortunate that our head of government chose the occasion of such an important overseas trip to denigrate the Irish media in such […]

Social Democrats Co-Leader Catherine Murphy TD has made a substantial submission to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government for use in its current process to review the methodology used to determine local authority funding baselines in order to ensure that the charging model is fair. Current Model of Local Property Tax inherently unfair […]

As Dublin celebrates with the annual Pride Parade, the Social Democrats today call on the government to show much greater urgency in driving reforms to improve the human rights of LGBTI people in Ireland. The party’s co-leaders Róisín Shortall TD and Catherine Murphy TD said it was disappointing, 25 years after homosexuality was decriminalised, that […]

Today’s Summer Economic Statement is another squandered opportunity by the government to shore up our tax base and invest now to tackle the enormous pressures facing our economy and society, the Social Democrats said today. The party’s co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said diverting some corporation tax into a ‘rainy day fund’ at a time of […]