Motions

Conference recognises the huge progress in the Republic since the referendum on abortion in May 2018 and welcomes the solidarity shown North and South during the campaign. Conference notes that services and provision of abortion up to 12 weeks have been rolled...

Congress acknowledges the important service that foster carers play in providing a safe and stable environment for foster children in Ireland. While their role is recognised by the State in terms of fostering allowances, there are no associated leave...

That this Conference calls on the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to reverse the decision in 2015 to increase the waiting time to qualify for disability benefit from three days to six days. This measure was implemented during the...

This Congress notes with sadness that in September 2012, two young people returning from a music festival in England lost their lives when the coach they were travelling in crashed. The driver was also killed. The crash was caused by a tyre that was nearly 20...

In the campaign to build a better future for all, Congress recognises the fundamental importance of public services and, in that context, the centrality and transformative potential of a high-quality public education system informed by principles of justice...

1. This Conference recognises the enormous value of primary education in laying the foundations of learning, and the internationally-acknowledged high quality of the Irish primary education system. 2. However, Conference notes that the most recent comparative...

Health Services in Ireland North and South are under extreme pressure, facing a funding crisis and significant difficulties in recruiting and retaining an adequate workforce. Waiting times in ED departments and waiting lists for first outpatient appointments...

The Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme made fifty recommendations to be implemented in light of the failures highlighted by the scandal. A Review in March 2019 by the report’s author Dr Gabriel Scally noted that the “deeply flawed” open...

Conference despairs at the extreme rise in the abuse of schools and individual teachers and support staff on social media. Conference further despairs at the apparent refusal of the Employing Authorities to provide clear support and guidance to Boards of...

Conference notes the many societal problems across the Island of Ireland; from unemployment, job insecurity, and homelessness, rural isolation to ghettoisation, deprivation, poverty and inequality. This conference agrees that urbanisation and centralisation of...