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House of Lords - Welfare Reform and Work Bill Monday 25 January 2016 Meeting starts at 2.30pm Oral questions: Additional expenditure on housing benefit paid to private landlords as a result of the reduction of social housing units Oral ques...

Ahead of a key vote on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill this week in the House of Lords, over 30 national charities, members of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), have signed an open letter (below) to Iain Duncan Smith warning that the Governm...

The ABC was invited to the Romanian Embassy on Friday 22 January for a meeting to explain more about our organisation, and how we plan to assist European Workers - those on benefits, those retired or retiring. To help workers and business people lear...

Voices from the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davro Tony Blair has been reminding party guests this week that one of his former interns is now the prime minister of Malta. Encouragement to all interns we hope - one day all that free la...

In the Seanad today, Senator Ivana Bacik will introduce the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 on behalf of the Labour Party Senators, as a Private Members’ Bill. Senator Aideen Hayden of Labour will second the Bill.   Speaking to propose t...

For September to November 2015, 74.0% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work, the highest employment rate since comparable records began in 1971. The unemployment rate for September to November 2015 was 5.1%, down from 5.8% for a year earlier. It...

Welfare Reform Committee2nd Meeting, 2016  It started: 19/01/2016 10:00 Finishes: 19/01/2016 12:00 Robert Burns Room (CR1) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private...

The First Minister comes under fire in regard to social care. We are in our infancy coving the Scottish Parliament but we are pleased to bring these debates to you. If you are a care working this is a debate worth following. 

Plaid Cymru responds to Tata steel job losses Devastating news for the affected families, and for the steel community Responding to the confirmation than more than a thousand jobs will be lost at Tata steel sites across south Wales, Plaid Cymru Shado...

The next Irish general election must take place no later than 8 April 2016. The election will be called following the dissolution of the31st Dáil by the President, at the request of the Taoiseach. The electo...