Motions

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...

Conference notes with some alarm the rise of the far right across the world. The emergence of these political forces indicates a growing disenchantment with the idea of globalisation, a democratic deficit and has resulted in declining respect for international...

Congress notes that across the world Far Right political parties have made major gains at all political levels. The Far Right Movement has cynically fed off the fallout from the worldwide recessions and the refugee crisis with thousands fleeing war torn...

This BDC notes that 2019 marks the centenary of the foundation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The founding principle of the ILO: that universal, lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice is as relevant today as it...