Motions

Congress calls on all public representatives in the next general election to address inequalities in health and access to healthcare by ensuring a Health in All Polices Approach, by putting mental health on a par with physical health and by focus on universal...

This conference, noting: six years of unparalleled cutbacks, both in terms of financial and human resources, imposed upon the public health service; the resulting contraction of essential health services, as a result, causing hardship and upset to ordinary...

That this Conference demands. That the Government repeals all aspects of the FEMPI legislation, and. That any future attempt by the government to impose unilateral changes to the pay and working conditions of public sector workers be vigorously opposed and...

Congress notes that Article 25 of the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights, 1948 states that Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical...

Conference: calls on all political parties and candidates to commit to proper funding of primary education in the term of the next government in order to reduce class size, support schools of all sizes, tackle the effects of disadvantage through education and...

According to the EU, European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs) are a new approach to EU research and innovation. They purport to be challenge-driven, focusing on societal benefits and a rapid modernisation of the associated sectors and markets. In reality they...

Conference fully supports the decision of the Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to demand a referendum to enshrine the public ownership, supply, treatment and management of water in Ireland in the Irish Constitution as a power of the...

That the Waterford Council of Trade Unions calls on Conference to reject imposition of water charges on the Irish people and call for a Constitutional Amendment that ensures water remains in the ownership of the Irish people. Adopted Unamended Waterford...

Conference is extremely concerned about theproposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Free Trade Treaty, a wide-ranging trade deal giving unprecedented power and influence to transnational corporations that would become the benchmark for...

That this Conference calls on the Irish government representatives engaged in on-going negotiations on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to ensure that there is a general exclusion or carve-out for education and other vital public...