Fine Gael will overhaul Ireland’s outdated and job-destroying bankruptcy laws, and has published a radical new policy to reduce the statutory bankruptcy period from 12 years to three, Fine Gael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 Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has called on Education Minister Mary Coughlan TD to address Ireland’s underperforming standards in maths education. In the last few weeks Ireland’s underperformance in the maths education has been highlighted by two reports, one international and one from the Department of Education. The findings of the international PISA [...]

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Fine Gael Spokesperson on Innovation & Research Deirdre Clune TD has welcomed the recommendations for reform contained in the Law Reform Commission’s Personal Debt Management and Debt Enforcement Report. Deputy Clune has urged the Government to respond to the report by reforming our outdated insolvency laws without any further delay. I agree with the Law [...]

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Click here for my view of the Government’s record on providing ICT & High Speed Broadband to schools. Click here to view the full video clip of my Question to the Minister for Education regarding the Broadband & ICT in schools and the reply from Minister of State Mary White TD. My Priority Parliamentary Question [...]

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With Science Week currently underway, Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has raised the Government’s failure to invest in information and communication technology (ICT) and provide high speed broadband to Irish schools. The Government’s record on improving the quality of ICT and broadband to schools has been nothing short of abysmal. Just [...]

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This article was published in the Evening Echo on Wednesday 20th October 2010 The current unemployment crisis among people who have recently graduated means that emigration once again haunts the dreams of people across Ireland. As a nation we run the risk of being the victim of a brain drain as thousands of our best [...]

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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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Click here to view the video clip of my Question to the Minister for Education regarding the Introduction of Bonus Points for Leaving Cert Maths and the reply from Minister of State Conor Lenihan TD, Minister for Science, Technology & Innovation. My Priority Parliamentary Question to the Minister for Education & Skills was: To ask [...]

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