Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Employment Affairs and Social Protection Minister, Regina Doherty, T.D. has published the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017. The Bill delivers on the commitment in the Programme for a partnership Government to tackle the problems caused...

The Chancellor has upset the disabled by blaming them for a fall in productivity. Others might argue that low wages are the issue.  This is what one disabled person had to say: 'I was enraged today when I read the comments Philip Hammond our Cha...

Storm Caroline is set to batter parts of the UK with gales ahead of another freezing cold snap bringing blizzards and heavy snow showers across Britain. The third named storm of this season is set to arrive on Thursday morning, br...

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall TD has welcomed the government’s move to raise the compulsory retirement age for public sector workers to 70 – but called for the same flexibility to also apply to private sector em...

Labour has used Brexit tactics to secure UC implementation reports that Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke warns must be kept confidential. David Gauke warned campaigners the contents should not go public. The DWP minister claimed in parliament...

Heidi Allen a Conservative MP wept in the House of Commons after hearing of the desperate situations of people affected by government welfare reforms. Heidi Allen’s voice cracked, and she was visibly emotional following the speech by Labour&rsq...

The Labour Welsh Government is letting the UK Tory government do its worst to Wales’ most vulnerable people, Plaid Cymru Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Equalities Siân Gwenllian has said. Siân Gwenllian said that the Welsh Labour Gove...

It’s PMQs day and Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn again have enough topics to choose from when they face each other over the despatch box. Corbyn could highlight new warnings about UK tax havens, Trump’s Jerusalem gamble, homelessness...

DWP Select Committtee PIPs under the microscope. 10:55:12 Witnesses: Dr Paul Williams, Programme Director, Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) MAXIMUS and Leslie Wolfe, General Manager, Global Health, Centre for Health and Disability...

Around 600 people with disabilities will today participate in an all-day event in the European Parliament’s hemicycle, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the founding of the European Disability Forum. President Antonio Tajani and Commissio...