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1. Every effort must be made to protect Dun Laoghaire Jobs
   Issued : Tuesday 2 March, 2010
   The Leader of the Labour Party, Eamon Gilmore TD, has called on An Post to do everything it can to ensure that the 260 people currently working in Postbank do not become unemployed as a result of the wind down of the Banks operations.
2. Iarnród Eireann must revisit cut in number of peak time DART services
   Issued : Friday 22 January, 2010
   The Labour Party Leader, Deputy Eamon Gilmore has called on Iarnród Eireann to revisit, as a matter of urgency, the cut in the number of peak time train services on the Southside DART network.
3. Local water disruptions - Jan 14th
   Issued : Thursday 14 January, 2010
   Water supply to Sallynoggin, Mounttown, Dalkey, Dun Laoghaire and Killiney has had to be turned off because of critically low water levels at the Church Road supply reservoir. According to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Water department supply may not be restored until 19.30hrs tonight. Crews are working flat out to fix the problem. Please check Taptips for water saving advice.
4. CLOSURE OF COUNCIL CASH OFFICES MAKES NO SENSE
   Issued : Friday 9 October, 2009
   I am very concerned that Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is proposing to close cash offices in County Hall and in Dundrum.This closure will result in a severe reduction in the level of service provided by the Council to the public.
5. JOBLESS FIGURES CONTINUE TO HIT HARD IN DUN LAOGHAIRE
   Issued : Friday 9 October, 2009
    The Live Register figures published in September show that as far as the Dun Laoghaire Employment Exchange is concerned, there are now 7,912 people on the Live Register. This represents a 108% increase on the figures since August 2008. Dun Laoghaire continues to be hit hard with the rise in jobless figures.
6. Railing off car park in St Michael's Hospital unacceptable
   Issued : Wednesday 31 October, 2007
   The Labour Party Leader, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, has asked Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to take enforcement action against a developer who has railed off a portion of the car park at St Michael's Private Hospital.
7. GILMORE HAILS PATTISON’S UNIQUE RECORD OF PUBLIC SERVICE
   Issued : Tuesday 30 October, 2007
   It is not just an honour, but also a great privilege to have been asked to address this function to mark the retirement from public life of a man who was not only one of the most respected and admired figures in Leinster House over a period of 46 years, but who is also rightly regarded as political legend in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency.
8. MY AGENDA IS TO GROW THE PARTY; GET INTO GOV AND IMPLEMENT LABOUR POLICIES
   Issued : Tuesday 30 October, 2007
   We are both at the beginning of something tonight. I am at the beginning of my leadership of the Labour Party. Many of you are at the beginning of your involvement, however long or short, in politics.  We need to decide together what we want to do as a political movement, not just next week, or in the next election, but over the next fifteen years or two decades. We need to plan now so that Ireland in 2020 and beyond is shaped by our values - Labour values.  Many of the problems encountered by people living in Ireland today are a direct result of a lack of vision, and a lack of ambition.
9. DEFERRAL OF PLAN ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH LICENCE SHAMBLES
   Issued : Tuesday 30 October, 2007
   The Leader of the Labour Party, Eamon Gilmore TD, has called for the deferral of new regulations on provisional drivers due to come into operation from next Tuesday.Describing the current situation as a total shambles, Deputy Gilmore said that the mishandling of the issue by the Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey, had undermined the new Road Safety Strategy, brought the law into disrepute and caused anguish for tens of thousands of young drivers and their families.
10. STATEMENT BY EAMON GILMORE TD - DEPT OF TRANSPORT REPORT NOT BELIEVABLE: INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION NOW ESSENTIAL
    Issued : Friday 26 October, 2007
    The disclosure by the Department of Transport, that its Secretary General, Ms. Julie O'Neill, was also aware well in advance of the Aer Lingus announcement scrapping its Shannon-Heathrow air service now makes it more imperative than ever that we have the full independent inquiry sought by the Labour Party when this affair first broke.