Fine Gael will overhaul Ireland’s outdated and job-destroying bankruptcy laws, and has published a radical new policy to reduce the statutory bankruptcy period from 12 years to three, Fine Gael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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Fianna Fáil’s new interest in political reform is just a cynical attempt to divert attention away from their failed economic policies and delay a general election for as long as possible, according to Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD. Fianna Fáil has been in Government for more than 13 years. The party [...]

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Cork Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune has called on the Government to react to RTE’s expose on Home Care by prioritising the regulation of this service. RTE’s Primetime programme exposed the realities that exist for some elderly people and their families. Scenes of an elderly women being force fed and of individuals forcing situations on [...]

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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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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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Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune will today, Wednesday 1st December 2010 at 6pm, launch a new book by Cork woman Madge Fogarty entitled; ‘Recovering from Postnatal Depression’ in Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin. For too long the issue of Postnatal Depression (PND) has had an unfair stigma attached to it. Part of the reason for this [...]

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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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Fine Gael Spokesperson on Research & Innovation Deirdre Clune TD has criticised the Government’s four year plan as a document with no future. It lacks any proposals on the banking sector or any package for job creation and seems yet again to target the vulnerable in society. Instead of a vision and hope the Government’s [...]

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Responding to the ongoing chaos within the Government Cork Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune believes that the voices of the Irish public must be heard now through an immediate General Election. Last Monday the international media revealed that the current Government were misleading the Irish public. This Monday we see a Government in chaos. The [...]

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