News Archives for September, 2008
30 September, 2008
Speaking in Dublin today Lucan Sinn Féin representative Robert Ballesty today welcomed the announcement by John Curran, Minister of State, of the roll-out of the "Dial to Stop Drug Dealing" scheme. Read full article
30 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Christy Burke today called on the Housing Minister Michael Finneran to meet immediately with Dublin City Council's Housing SPC in light of the news that Dublin City Council faces a shortfall of €20m in this year's budget. Read full article
29 September, 2008
South Dublin Sinn Féin representative Shaun Tracey has slammed the Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe for failing to provide a timeframe for the building of a permanent school structure for Holy Trinity National School in Leopardstown. Read full article
26 September, 2008
Cllr. Larry O'Toole has commended his fellow councillors on the Dublin North East area committee for his proposal that the Whitehall Framework plan be adopted and presented to the October meeting of Dublin City council. Read full article
26 September, 2008
Cllr. Larry O'Toole has launched a new initiative for senior citizens in the Darndale Belcamp area. The project "Care and Repair" is a service for citizens of 65 and over who require small repair jobs in their homes carried out free of charge by a maintenance team from the Darndale Village Centre. Read full article
25 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Donnelly has called for those using the pathway on the Blakestown Road at the entrance to Hartstown Park to stop blocking the footpath and the entrance to the park. Read full article
25 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Donnelly has welcomed the progress made on the planned signalisation works for the roundabout at Scoil Oilibhéir and the link road near the fire station.* Read full article
25 September, 2008
Speaking in the Dáil today Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD called for a debate on the proposal to merge five equality and human rights groups into one body. Read full article
25 September, 2008
Sinn Fein's Dublin Environment Spokesperson, Councillor Daithí Doolan, speaking today at the launch of the report 'Funding the Dublin City Region', said Sinn Féin will oppose any attempts cut central Government funding for the City Council. Read full article
24 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has welcomed the launch by the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern of guidelines for the establishment of Joint Policing Committees (JPCs) across the state. Read full article
24 September, 2008
South Dublin Sinn Féin representative Shaun Tracey has called on Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to waste no time in establishing a Joint Policing Committee after the Minister for Justice today launched guidelines for local authorities throughout the state to establish these groups. Read full article
23 September, 2008
Sinn Féin's Dublin Environment Spokesperson, Councillor Daithí Doolan, has today challenged the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, "to deliver jobs and retraining for the inner city" Read full article
23 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD today launched his party's submission to the Garda Policing Plan for 2009. In the submission Deputy Ó Snodaigh has urged the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner to re-direct spending in the new context of recession. Read full article
22 September, 2008
Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has today sharply criticised European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean Claude Trichet for the recent call by the ECB's Governing Council to abolish any links between the rate of inflation and pay increases. Read full article
19 September, 2008
Paul Donnelly was officially ratified as Sinn Féin's candidate for the Mulhuddart ward in next year's local government elections at a convention of party members held in St. Peregrines GAA club in Blakestown, Dublin 15 last night. The meeting was chaired by Finglas based Sinn Fein Councillor Dessie Ellis and was attended by members of all the Sinn Féin Cumainn in the Dublin West constituency. Read full article
17 September, 2008
Reacting to news that a draft new National Pay Deal has been agreed Sinn Féin National Chairperson and MEP for Dublin Mary Lou McDonald described the agreement as a bad deal for the low paid. Ms. McDonald expressed deep disappointment that the deal has once again failed to deal with the issue of low pay and described the five cent an hour extra for low paid workers as farcical. Read full article
17 September, 2008
DUBLIN 15 Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Donnelly has warned that the current
economic slowdown must not be used as an excuse to cut funds for drug
rehabilitation projects in next month's budget. Read full article
16 September, 2008
Responding to government plans to extend credit from the National Treasury Management Agency to the Housing Finance Agency on the basis that it give greater access to local authority loans for the lower paid Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Housing Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has called on the government to make a much more substantial intervention into what is for thousands of families across the state a housing crisis. Read full article
16 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has described government efforts to link the rejection of Lisbon to the downturn in the economy as a "low brow tactic that seeks simply to bully the Irish people into submission rather than actually engage with them on the issues." Read full article
16 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, speaking after yet another shooting of a man in Clondalkin today, said high Garda visibility in areas suffering high levels of crime is crucial to tackling increased incidents of public shootings. Read full article
15 September, 2008
DUBLIN 15 Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Donnelly has called on the Gardaí to
take action after Corduff Park was badly damaged over the past few weeks by young vandals recklessly driving uninsured motorbikes. Read full article
15 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Dublin MEP and National Chairperson Mary Lou McDonald today
slammed Junior Minister John McGuinness for his weekend rant against public sector workers. Read full article
15 September, 2008
Sinn Féin International Affairs Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD will attend an event organised by Amnesty International in Leinster House on Wednesday in support of an International Arms Trade Treaty. Deputy Ó Snodaigh has signed a declaration in support of an Arms Trade Treaty and has called on all Irish politicians to do so ahead of Wednesday's event. Read full article
12 September, 2008
Reacting to speculation that a nuclear powered British Naval Submarine was positioned in Irish waters eleven miles off the Mayo Coast as the pipe laying ship 'The Solitaire' arrived for work on the Corrib gas pipeline Sinn Féin Justice and International Affairs Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD called on Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea to make a public statement on the matter. Read full article
12 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has been invited to speak at Le Fete l'Humanite, tomorrow (Sat Sep13th) in Paris on the Lisbon Treaty. Read full article
12 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Justice, Equality and Human Rights Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, speaking as Merchants Quay Ireland launched its annual report, said the current economic slowdown must not be used as an excuse to cut funds for drug rehabilitation projects in next month's budget. Read full article
11 September, 2008
South Dublin Sinn Féin representative Shaun Tracey has echoed calls from Labour Party Leader Eamon Gilmore for the Government to announce a date for the by-election in Dublin South following the death of Séamus Brennan in July. Read full article
10 September, 2008
Responding to today's publication of the governments post Lisbon Treaty research document Sinn Fein Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has called on the government to now knuckle down and prepare the groundwork for the October EU summit. Read full article
9 September, 2008
Temple Bar has won the annual Tidy Towns Competition, having been named last night
as Dublin City's Tidiest area for the first time ever. Read full article
9 September, 2008
South Dublin Sinn Féin representative Shaun Tracey has welcomed the introduction of the number 47 bus from Belarmine to Donnybrook but insisted that new communities in the Glencullen area should be provided with a direct bus route into the City without the added financial burden of having to transfer onto the Luas at Sandyford. Read full article
8 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Shane O Connor today called on the management of the Mill Shopping Centre to request that their tenants remove from sale all airguns. Cllr. O Connor's call came on foot of an incident in Birmingham last week where an 18 month old was accidentally shot and killed by his 5 year old sister using their father's airgun. Read full article
8 September, 2008
Entering the debate on the Government's proposal to merge the Human Rights Commission, the Equality Authority, the Equality Tribunal, the National Disability Authority, and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Sinn Féin Justice and Equality Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD described the proposal as an unjustifiable roll-back on the Government's Good Friday Agreement Commitments. Read full article
8 September, 2008
South Dublin Sinn Féin representative Shaun Tracey has criticised Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council over inaction on an issue involving land between Ballyogan Estate and the M50 Motorway. Mr. Tracey said the land is being used for illegal dumping and anti-social behaviour and should be given to the residents in Ballyogan to extend their gardens. Read full article
8 September, 2008
Speaking after figures were released which show that almost a quarter (23%) of all school children in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown are being taught in classes of thirty or more children South Dublin Sinn Féin Spokesperson Shaun Tracey called on Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe to outline a school building programme which deals with the population boom the county has experienced in recent years. Read full article
5 September, 2008
Dublin South Central Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has criticised Dublin City Council for failing to deal with flooding problems in the Ballyfermot area. Deputy Ó Snodaigh said as many as thirty families in the Labre Park area are hemmed in by flood waters as high as three foot. Read full article
3 September, 2008
The proposed new Corduff Childcare Centre is in serious threat due to the failure of Council officials to provide a lease for the site. The Corduff Childcare Committee have thus far been unable to obtain the lease despite repeated efforts to do so. Up to €1.2m in funding will be withdrawn if a
lease is not in place by 23rd October and Council officials have been aware of this for over a year.* Read full article
2 September, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Christy Burke today called on the Housing Minister
Michael Finneran to meet immediately with Dublin City Council's Housing
SPC in light of the news that Dublin City Council faces a shortfall of
€20m in this year's budget. Read full article
1 September, 2008
Sinn Féin's Councillor Daithí Doolan has tonight welcomed, "the introduction of
regulations for Dublin's off licences."
Speaking tonight during the debate in City Hall Cllr. Doolan said:
"Tonight's vote on introducing control of off licences will ensure that the current
situation of off-licences being outside control of Dublin City Council will end. It
has become necessary to introduce standards to govern the development of off
licences. This will be welcomed by residents, communities and traders right across Dublin. It will ensure mixed use of retail outlets and avoid over saturation of off licences in any one area of the city. " Read full article
1 September, 2008
Sinn Fein's Councillor Daithí Doolan has tonight welcomed, "the introduction of regulations for Dublin's off licences." Read full article
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