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12 October 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Two budgets since announcement, and still no money or timeline Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Aindrias Moynihan has said that once again the much-needed N22 upgrade, and the bypass of Macroom, has been ignored by the Fine Gael Government. “Yet again, the people of North West...
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12 October 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Labour TD and Spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform, Seán Sherlock , has highlighted how thin the Government has spread the ‘fiscal space’ in the Budget announced yesterday. “The immediate aftermath of a Budget announcement tends to focus on top-line figures in the areas of Social Protection and...
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12 October 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry this morning slammed yesterday’s Budget announcement that the national minimum wage will be set at a rate of 9.25 euro an hour next year – an increase of just 10 cent. He said: “Yesterday, one of the best paid Finance Ministers in...
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11 October 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin Deputy Spokesperson on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Pat Buckley TD has called for the government to release a detailed and targeted plan to invest in delivering improvements to community based mental health services. He made his comments following the release of the Budget 2017, which...
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7 October 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A former Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork – Cllr Kenneth O’Flynn – has issued a statement in which he said “It has been brought to my attention that the former Amgen site in Carrigtwohill is to be visited by executives or representatives of Nissan Japan and Nissan...
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30 September 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy was in Denmark recently, where he met the Tourism Ireland team in Copenhagen. Minister Murphy was briefed on Tourism Ireland’s extensive promotional programme, which is in full swing right now, to boost tourism from the Nordic Region to the island of Ireland...
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30 September 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has launched a new programme of Chinese language education at Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers. Liadh is a member of the European Parliament Delegation to the People’s Republic of China. Speaking to staff and students at Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers this morning, Liadh Ní Riada...
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28 September 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie In Warsaw today Ireland’s Minister for European Affairs, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Dara Murphy T.D. delivered a public lecture on “The European Union in challenging times: the Irish Perspective” at the Polish Institute for International Affairs(PISM). In his address, the Minister spoke of the...
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28 September 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork have welcomed the decision of Cork City Council to introduce car-free hours on St. Patrick’s Street. Speaking this morning, Oliver Moran, the Green Party representative in Cork North central said: “The car-free movement is based on the idea of returning to a city...
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28 September 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Jonathan O’Brien TD has stated that it is important for An Garda Síochána to detail and explain the reasons for conflicting reports from the CSO in relation to the recording of crime and the reporting of crime figures. Speaking from Leinster this afternoon, Deputy...
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28 September 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Jim Daly, Fine Gael Cork South West TD and Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, is welcoming a call by the Ombudsman for Children for more oversight over schools. “Speaking at the launch of his office’s annual report today Niall Muldoon said 45%...
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27 September 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie “The fact that the Health Service Executive had no clue that they were being ripped off by pharmacies suggests that there is a systemic lack of oversight over how money is spent in our health system,” said the Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson, Billy Kelleher TD. Following the launch...
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