Local communities and people interested in the development of Douglas, Carrigaline and the surrounding towns and villages can view Cork County Council’s Local Area Plan and make submissions on this plan until January 12th. Cork County Council published a Local Area Plan for the Douglas/Carrigaline area in late November 2010. The plan sets out in [...]

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Local T.D. Deirdre Clune and Cllr. Deirdre Forde have expressed their concern that a dangerous bus stop on Maryborough Hill has to be replaced by a safer bus stop with a standing area urgently. Local residents in Broadale and Maryborough Ridge have been fighting for a safer bus stop to be provided for a number [...]

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Click here to view the video clip of my Adjournment Debate on the need to improve dental services for adults with special needs and the reply from Minister of State Sean Haughey TD. My Adjournment Debate to the Minister for Health was as a result of a number of people contacting my office who have [...]

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Local Cllr Deirdre Forde and Deirdre Clune TD have welcomed Cork County Council’s decision to review the traffic levels using the roundabout at Mount Ovel/St. Patrick’s Church on the Rochestown Road with a view improving congestion. Cllr. Deirdre Forde said: Cork County Council has confirmed to me that it intends to proceed with a review [...]

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Cork Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune has highlighted that more than two months into the college year of 5,926 applications in Cork for Higher Education Grants only 713 have been awarded. A further 1,837 of these applications have yet to be even processed. This information was released to Fine Gael this week from the Department [...]

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Cork Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune said her office has been contacted by a large number of mainly young people who want to vote in the General Election in a few weeks time but need to get on the Draft Voter Register before the closing date on November 25th. Since the political crisis started on [...]

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On the first anniversary of Cork’s devastating flooding Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune has been given time for a Dáil debate on the Government’s lacklustre response to the flooding and the insurance implications of this inaction for local residents. Cork was hit by devastating flooding on 19th November 2009. Twelve months on, and facing into [...]

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Click here to view the video clip of my Adjournment Debate on the TB outbreak in Cork and Minister of State Dara Calleary’s reply. The outbreak of TB in a Cork Primary School has raised a number of questions about the the TB services that exist and the decision not to offer the BCG vaccine [...]

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Click here to view the video clip of my Adjournment Debate on the HIQA Report on Foster Care Services in Cork and the reply from Minister of State Conor Lenihan TD, Minister for Science, Technology & Innovation. My Adjournment Debate to the Minister for Children was as a result of the HIQA Report (PDF 374KB) [...]

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Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has expressed her disappointment at the announcement of 55 job losses at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Cork together with changes to shift patterns which will result in 66 fewer jobs. The Cork TD criticised the Government for the lack of any credible job creation policy and its [...]

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