Funding for improved road infrastructure in Cork welcome –Clune. Fine Gael Cork Senator Deirdre Clune has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Transport that Cork City and Council is to receive over 7 million euro in funding to improve road infrastructure. I have been informed by the Minister that a sum of over 3 [...]

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CE Schemes Vital to Local Communities – Clune 23rd January 2012. Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune today has called on the government to ensure that money will continue to be invested in Community Employment Schemes. The Department of Social Protection is currently in the process of reviewing the Community Employment (CE Schemes). The Community Employment [...]

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Redundancy Payments due to Vita Cortex, Cork workers must be paid – Clune. Monday 16th of January. Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune in the Seanad last week also raised the plight of the Vita Cortex workers by raising an adjournment on the matter. The Vita Cortex are now in the fourth week of their protest [...]

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  Tourism figures increase in 2011   Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune has welcomed CSO figures released this week revealing a growth of 10% in the numbers of tourists coming to Ireland this year. Between January and September over 5 million overseas visitors chose to visit Ireland.       Also noteworthy were the 12.3% [...]

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Deirdre Clune TD, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Research & Innovation, at today’s launch of Fine Gael’s Working for Our Future Plan described the policy as the best way to tackle the jobs crisis and rebuild our economy. Our plan, Working for Our Future, is based on keeping people in work, making it easier for people [...]

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Fine Gael will overhaul Ireland’s outdated and job-destroying bankruptcy laws, and has published a radical new policy to reduce the statutory bankruptcy period from 12 years to three, Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has announced. Click here to view policy “Irish bankruptcy laws are simply not fit for propose. They are [...]

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Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has challenged Enterprise Minister Batt O’Keeffe TD to ‘ramp up’ the Government’s initiatives to tackle graduate unemployment. Minister O’Keeffe claims the Government has been pro-active in addressing the growing problem of graduate unemployment – but the reality is totally different. The Government has a target of [...]

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Click here to view the video clip of my questions to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation Batt O’Keeffe TD about the Government’s lack of action on Graduate Unemployment. I took the opportunity to outline to the Minister to crisis in Graduate Unemployment which has been estimated by the Union of Student’s in Ireland [...]

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A fatal flaw in one of the Government’s key job-creation initiatives means it has been a total flop, reaching just 6% of its 2010 job-creation target, Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has warned. The Government’s Employer Job (PRSI) Incentive Scheme was launched with great fanfare during the last Budget. Batt O’Keeffe [...]

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