{"id":10933,"date":"2024-12-12T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:14:48","slug":"statement-from-cian-ocallaghan-following-a-meeting-of-the-soc-dems-parliamentary-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/statement-from-cian-ocallaghan-following-a-meeting-of-the-soc-dems-parliamentary-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Cian O&#8217;Callaghan following a meeting of the Soc Dems parliamentary party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Statement from Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O\u2019Callaghan following a meeting of the party\u2019s parliamentary party this morning.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a meeting of the Social Democrats parliamentary party this morning, a decision was taken to continue talks with the four parties we have already engaged with \u2013 Fianna F\u00e1il, Fine Gael, Sinn F\u00e9in and Labour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier, during the meeting, I and the other members of our negotiation team \u2013 Jennifer Whitmore and Gary Gannon \u2013 updated the parliamentary party on those meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reported that the meetings had been positive and constructive with a good exchange of views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese talks have been exploratory to date but I expect that next week they will become more focused \u2013 particularly on the dealbreakers we highlighted during the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose dealbreakers were the delivery of 50,000 genuinely affordable homes during the lifetime of the next government; the full implementation of Sl\u00e1intecare; quality public childcare; a senior minister for disability and credible climate action to avoid up to \u20ac20 billion in EU fines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn continuing these talks, the Social Democrats are delivering on a commitment we gave to the electorate to talk to every party after the election with a view to forming a government and delivering on our mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O\u2019Callaghan following a meeting of the party\u2019s parliamentary party this morning. \u201cAt a meeting of the Social Democrats parliamentary party this morning, a decision was taken to continue talks with the four parties we have already engaged with \u2013 Fianna F\u00e1il, Fine Gael, Sinn F\u00e9in and Labour. \u201cEarlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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