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LABOUR PARTY CHAIRPERSON Colm Keaveney has said his “own value system” would not allow him to vote with the government on the respite grant cut in the Dáil today. However he said he is “determined to remain as chairperson of the party.
Keaveney sided with opposition parties in voting to remove the cut, from €1,700 to €1,375 per year, as part of the Social Welfare Bill.
The motion was nonetheless defeated by 54 votes to 87 when taken electronically, and by 55 votes to 89 when repeated through a manual vote.
In an interview with due to air this evening on TV3′s tonight with Vincent Browne, Keaveney said that over the past couple of weeks he “failed to reverse some of the odious cuts that emerged on Budget Day”.
He said a number of days prior to the announcement of the budget it became apparent to that the budget was going to be” regressive, particularly with low, middle income workers”.
He described the budget as a “conflict of ideologies” and said the issue was one of proportionality with Labour making up only one third of government.
Keaveney said the cut to child benefit “resonated very strongly” with him as he had promised families in the election that he would protect it.
“I remember vividly promising families in the last general election that I would try to keep the scarce few bob in their pockets and would try to get children through this,” he said.
The Labour party Chairperson said he had spoken to Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore about his concerns before the budget was published and was asked not to make any decision until he looked at the budget in its entirety.
When asked if he would now resign his position as chairperson Keaveney said, “I am determined to stay as chairperson of the party”.
He said that when it comes to critically important negotiations in the future that a Labour stamp is put on those discussions.
Keaveney said he is not tempted in any way to join any of the opposition parties and will continue as a Labour party member.
The full interview will air tonight at 11pm.
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Just drop the Sun full stop..
Its such a pity…Page 3 gave me plenty of fond mammaries…
Get rid of page 3, I’d get rid of page 1,2,3,4,5,6…in fact the whole paper. It’s a rubbish paper with very little relevant news, might be ok for sport but that’s about it.
He can’t get rid of page 3 otherwise there’ll be a gap between page 2 and page 4.
Obviously there will be no page 4 now
Ahh Tits, it was the only reason I bought the bloody paper :)
Now there’s two more reasons not to buy the Sun.
Murdoch has cheapened society with his muck empire .Boycott his print dumbdumb papers .
You said it, Murdock the Muckraker.
If the market wants it then give it to them. What will builders do without page 3!
What builders…….
Plenty of builders this side of the pond. The world consists of more than Ireland.
If page 3 goes, how will we keep abreast of things?
No way…………
Its no more a rag than the mirror and the star, and increasingly the independent a rag without a red top
What’s poor old Dannii (21) from Essex and Jakki (19) from Newcastle going to do now?
Celebrity Big Brother
More a case of who will they do now!
danni has been 21 for the last five years or so.
Looks like he lived through the whole century himself……….
The no more page 3 group, brought to you by ugly single women with low self esteem…
Probably no chebbs either.
Although the sun is a rag, if he gets rid of page 3 no one will buy it, and it will go out of business( which is not a bad thing). I can’t see him doing it as he will lose money as a result.
As long as they dont get rid of Zoo or Nuts I dont care if they get rid of Page 3. Plenty of tits on Nuts and Zoo
Page 3 is the breast page in the paper
Lindsay 23, Essex, will not be pleased!
A bit like yourself Rupert.. Last century
Baps
Nnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooo
What about those poor unfortunate exploited girls.
They need hugs and Jesus.
Ah crap, forgot my medication!
Page 1, page 2, page 4….wtf?
Is he going to have a 2A page instead, or just page 1, 2 and 4.
let’s hope he considers this much in the same way the organisation he runs considered phone tapping.
have your say