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Fine Gael will overhaul Ireland’s outdated and job-destroying bankruptcy laws, and has published a radical new policy to reduce the statutory bankruptcy period from 12 years to three, Fine Gael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 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 Deputy Clune has urged the Government to respond to the report by reforming our outdated insolvency laws without any further delay.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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Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has described the Budget as a needless attack on the lowest paid that will damage the economy. By cutting the minimum wage by €1 per hour, and applying the new Universal Social Charge to those on annual incomes as low as €4,000, the Government has needlessly [...]

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Tax increases on low and middle income families in Budget 2011 will only damage the economy and stymie growth, according to Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD. Budget 2011 is an attack on low and middle income working families. The tax changes will reduce their spending power and suck money out of [...]

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Cork TD Deirdre Clune met with local members of Macra na Feírme in Carrigaline last week to discuss how Government policy is failing young farmers and damaging the prospects of economic growth in the Agricultural sector. I met Macra na Feírme to discuss the damage Government policy is wreaking on the Agricultural Sector. They are [...]

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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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