The Tánaiste and Labour party leader Joan Burton has said her main goal is to see all of the parties TDs and senators elected to the Dáil in the next general election.
Ms Burton made her comments whilst speaking to reporters about the party’s current decline in voter support, the party could loose up to 20 seats in the next election. According to the latest opinion polls the Labour party currently only have 7% of voters support which leaves them languishing behind their major rivals. Ms Burton told reporters in Dublin West that her current aim is to return all deputies and she also believes a number of colleagues could be in with a chance of taking seats in the next Dáil.
Ms Burton said: “What I hope to see, and what I am aiming to do as leader of the Labour Party, is to see us returning all of our deputies and indeed a number of our senators who are particularly strongly placed to win a seat.” “People like Lorraine Higgins in Galway East and John Whelan in Laois. So I am very confident that as the election approaches, and as people get an opportunity to look at the platforms and programmes of the various parties, I think that what Labour is offering over the next five years to the electorate is something that is deliverable and that makes sense for the country.”
Meanwhile the Tánaiste also said she believes that people who currently earn more than €100,000 should still be expected to pay the Universal Social Charge.