The Labour deputy leader says she has full confidence in Eamon Gilmore as party leader.

Joan Burton says she supports Eamon Gilmore's party leadership and suggests she has no wish to oust him.

There has been longstanding speculation that Minister Burton could be encouraged to launch a leadership challenge.

At the Labour Party conference in Killarney at the weekend, Mr. Gilmore listed job creation, restoring the minimum wage, GP care for under-5s, cleaning up ghost estates and building classrooms as Labour achievements.

And the Tánaiste re-iterated his hope to be able to announce an income tax cut for families in the lifetime of this country.

And after the Labour conference at the weekend, Minister Burton says Eamon Gilmore has the full support of everyone.