Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has told the Dáil today (Thursday, 24 February 2022) that urgent Government intervention is required to mitigate huge food price increases in the coming months.
Government needs to intervene now to mitigate huge food price increases in the coming months.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar today has informed Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara that Moneypoint and Tarbert power stations may continue to operate “for many years to come” due to concerns over Ireland’s energy security.
The Government says the temporary Covid downgrading of all National Driving Licence Service (NDLS) offices across the State has now been made permanent. A walk-in service is no longer available and a public services card is now needed to avail of the online service.
HIQA is to undertake inspections of the ED at University Hospital Limerick and work with hospital management to develop a strategic plan to address capacity issues. It’s important the plan has a wider scope than the approach taken up to now.
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has received confirmation that HIQA is to undertake inspections of the Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) and work with hospital management to develop a strategic plan to address capacity issues at the Mid-West facility.
Read MoreIndependent Clare TD Michael McNamara has expressed his support a plan announced to reduce treatment waiting times for children with scoliosis and spina bifida which he described as “long-overdue”.
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Junior Transport Minister Hildegarde Naughten has confirmed that the temporary Covid downgrading of all National Driving Licence Service (NDLS) offices across the State has now been made permanent.
Read MoreEamon Ryan, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, has said the Government is committed to getting the proposed takeover by Clare County Council of Clare-based Shannon Heritage tourism assets “over the line”.
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has urged Clare County Council and the University of Limerick (UL) to engage fully and constructively with Limerick City and County Council and other regional interests in their bid to have the university campus in County Clare and its hinterland designated as an Economic Strategic Development Zone (SDZ).
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Independent Clare T.D. Michael McNamara says the announcement of funding totalling €11.8m towards the proposed Killaloe Bypass, Shannon Bridge Crossing and R494 Improvement Scheme brings the long sought-after infrastructure project closer to being realised.
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Following calls from Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara last week, Environment Minister Eamon Ryan has introduced a further one-year extension to the derogation allowing for the burning of green waste.
Read MoreClare Independent TD Michael McNamara says the Government can do more to ease high timber prices and the consequent impact on construction costs by speeding up efforts to reduce the backlog of forestry license applications across the country.
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Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara has welcomed a funding boost for communities across East Clare.
Read MoreThis is not a plan to tackle inflation. It’s compensation for inflation in April, but the cost of living will continue to rise before and after then. We urgently need targeted measures by Government to tackle rising energy & housing costs, the main drivers of inflation in Ireland.
I spoke to Live 95FM about ongoing overcrowding at UHL, which is consistently the most overcrowded hospital in the State.
The huge imbalance between primary producers and processors in Irish agriculture will only be addressed by a fundamental change in direction and focus by the Department of Agriculture.
Clare TD Michael McNamara has called on the HSE and government to publish the findings of a review by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) into the ongoing trolley crisis at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).
In Dáil Éireann today, Independent Clare T.D. Michael McNamara questioned the Taoiseach Micheál Martin on the proposed takeover by Clare County Council of Clare-based Shannon Heritage tourism assets.
Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara has expressed his hope that works will begin shortly on the upgrading of a section of the popular riverbank walk in Shannon town, which has become impassable in recent years.
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Independent Clare T.D. Michael McNamara has called for wider supports for domestic abuse support organisations in light of 2020 figures released to him and figures for 2021 highlighting an increase in the number of reports of domestic abuse in Ireland over the last 12 months.
Read MoreIndependent Clare TD Michael McNamara has criticised the Government’s policy of closing power stations during an energy crisis in the hope that they will eventually be replaced with green energy sources at an unspecified time in the future.
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Congratulations to St Joseph’s Secondary School, Tulla on winning their first Harty Cup title by beating five times champions Ardscoil Rís in the TUS Gaelic Grounds this afternoon.
Match highlights – https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvlBVLLQGB
Closing down our power stations in the midst of an energy crisis in the hope that we will replace them with green energy sources at some indeterminate time in the future ill-serves this State.
Deputy Michael McNamara has requested the Government to enable employers to provide a €1,000 Covid bonus to qualifying employees without them or their employees incurring a tax liability.
I asked the Tánaiste if the Government will enable employers to provide a €1,000 Covid bonus to qualifying employees without them or their employees incurring a tax liability.
Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara today called on the Government to continue the derogation that was in place up to now that enables farmers to burn green waste such as hedge cuttings and trimming and dead scrub that was previously cut and left to dry out.
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