by Deirdre Clune | Oct 4, 2018 | Political News
CO2 emissions from new cars should be cut by 40% by 2030 as MEPs voted on proposals. In addition market uptake of electric and low-emission cars should accelerate as a result of these votes. This is good news for Ireland. In the draft law voted on yesterday, MEPs...
by Deirdre Clune | Oct 2, 2018 | Political News
A farm tyre bring-centre has been set up for Wexford, New Ross Mart on October 9th. However there were reported tailbacks of over 2km last weekend when the first one opened in Cavan. Farmers faced significant delays in bringing old tyres to the recycle point in Cavan...
by Deirdre Clune | Sep 25, 2018 | Political News
MEPs will gather in Brussels this week to discuss ways of improving the issue of late payments for firms. Managing late payments is a huge issue for many firms and many go out of businesses because of cash flow problems. It is crippling many businesses. Late payments...
by Deirdre Clune | Sep 24, 2018 | Political News
I am delighted to welcome the counties of Laois and Offaly to the new five seat Ireland South Constituency. I look forward to visiting Laois and Offaly over the coming months to meet the communities there and hear how we can work together. I know Mairead McGuinness...
by Deirdre Clune | Sep 18, 2018 | Political News
It is vital to retain the CAP Budget and increase it. We see the value of it. Every penny a farmer gets is spent in their local community and we recognise that agriculture is so important and we need to support it. There is a really strong push to have the CAP Budget...
by Deirdre Clune | Sep 12, 2018 | Political News
The European Solidarity Corps is the new European Union initiative which creates opportunities for young people to volunteer or work in projects in their own country or abroad that benefit communities and people around Europe. It was adopted this week by the European...
