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Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has called for a lifting of the recently announced recruitment freeze on home helps and other care workers.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has urged greater investment in soccer in Galway, saying that it lags behind in terms of government investment, despite being the most popular team sport in the county.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has criticised comments made by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on cutting childcare costs.

Labour Party City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has said Government must move to halve the waiting times to work for those seeking international protection in Ireland.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis said the eviction ban must be extended until the end of 2023 to safeguard vulnerable renters from entering homelessness.

Seanad Eireann is celebrating its 100th anniversary and in that hundred years some of the greatest and most noted people took their place in the Higher House of the Irish Parliament.

Insider understands the job of opposition politicians: it is to make you feel miserable. Their thinking is as follows; no matter what condition the country is in, we must give the impression that things are a lot worse than they are, and if we can convince enough people that the country is ‘gone to hell in a handcart’, then we can pick up some extra votes which will help us at the next election.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has warned that unless a new national industrial policy framework prioritised the scaling up of indigenous Irish enterprise, Ireland will continue to be exposed to a dangerous and excessive reliance on foreign direct investment for high value, high paying jobs.

Public representatives must be advocates for inclusion and not support bigotry and social exclusion, the head of the Labour Party in Galway has said after controversial comments were made by a city councillor last week about the alleged incompatability of Traveller and settled cultures.

A Galway councillor says says the Government’s Work Life Bill will fall short of meeting the very clear demand for a greater work life balance in this country.