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Meeting today on EU Fund possibilities for BOSE workers
Date: February 13, 2015
The possibility of retraining BOSE workers for jobs emerging from the expansion of Combilift will be among the subjects to be discussed when Independent MEP Marian Harkin and Cllr. Paudge Connolly meet with SIPTU and BOSE workers...[more]
Appointed to the Special Tax Committee of the European Parliament
Date: February 12, 2015
“As one of the original signatories asking for the setting up of this Committee on tax matters I am very pleased to have been appointed a Substitute member of this Committee”.[more]
Penalty Points will follow Motorists across Borders
Date: February 12, 2015
Motorists on both sides of the border who up to now could disregard road safety penalties pertaining in the jurisdictions of Northern Ireland and the Republic will not in future be able to do so.[more]
Ireland to Receive up to €20 Million in Pre-Financing for the Youth Employment Initiative
Date: February 10, 2015
In a move to ensure that the Youth Employment Initiative is implemented as rapidly as possible the European Commission has sanctioned €20 million pre-financing to Ireland. Ireland has an allocation of €68 million for the Youth...[more]
Major threat to Ireland’s water is from urban waste water systems – not septic tanks
Date: February 3, 2015
The most recent inspections of septic tanks by the Environmental Protection Agency had revealed that their threat to the country’s drinking water had been exaggerated and paled in significance with the damage being caused by 38...[more]
Louth Photo Competition Launched
Date: February 2, 2015
Volunteering among young people n Co. Louth was alive and well and contributing substantially to society and to the self development of those involved. This was the view of Independent MEP Marian Harkin following her visits to...[more]
Harkin to Seek EU Funds for Monaghan Workers
Date: January 26, 2015
Independent MEP has called on the government to immediately apply to the EU Globalisation Fund to assist workers being made redundant by the decision of the Monaghan based Bose company to move the enterprise abroad.[more]
MEP Warns on Unrealistic Farm Investment
Date: January 18, 2015
While Ireland’s food exports have been particularly strong contributors to Ireland’s economic recovery the producers of that food have not benefit commensurately.[more]
EU Commission accepts difference between good debt and bad debt
Date: January 14, 2015
“This afternoon the EU Commission explicitly differentiated between good and bad debt when they illustrated the flexibility that is contained within EU economic governance”. [more]
Brussels Bureaucrats Will no Longer Decide Irish GMO Policy
Date: January 13, 2015
The clear opposition of the European Parliament to the unacceptable power of multinational corporations to sue Member States of the European Union when they do not get their way was demonstrated in Strasbourg today, Tuesday,...[more]
