Affordable Housing in Clare
No affordable home being constructed, or even currently planned, in Clare under Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme.
Budget 2023 introduces levy on concrete products
In the budget, the Government is introducing a levy on all concrete products, which will be passed on to those already struggling to build a home. The Government failed to recoup any of the cost of the mica redress from the quarry owners who caused the problem. It didn’t even try.
1m electric vehicles on Irish roads
This government’s plan to have one million electric vehicles on our roads by 2030 is disconnected from today’s reality.
Ireland’s energy security
I pointed out the difference between what Government says and what it is doing regarding developing offshore wind energy in Ireland.
Education Minister Commits To Resolving Whitegate School Transport Places
Education Minister Norma Foley has said she will examine a situation whereby secondary school students in parts of Northeast Clare have missed out on securing public school transport for the current academic year.
Government must intervene over Standing Charges – McNamara
Independent Clare T.D. Michael McNamara says the Government needs to step in to prevent electricity and gas providers from imposing significant increases in standing charges during the ongoing energy crisis.
Read MoreGovt Shuts Down Calls For Windfarm On Clare/Galway Border To Be Retained
The Government has shut down calls for a windfarm on the Clare / Galway border to be retained.
Responding on behalf of the Environment Minister to a query from Scariff Independent TD Michael McNamara, Minister Hildegarde Naughton explains that the site is now ‘unathorised’.
The Sunday Independent – Subsidies are just a finger in the dyke — Ireland needs energy sovereignty
How we are going to meet our energy needs? And how long we can continue to provide financial compensation for our high energy costs over which we have no control due to our reliance on imports? I wrote about the issue in today’s Sunday Independent.
Ireland’s energy security
Energy security was and should be a fundamental part of Ireland’s independence.
Decommissioning the Derrybrien wind farm
In the midst of an energy crisis, we are decommissioning the 70-turbine Derrybrien wind farm. Rather than looking at ways to mitigate the damage, a State agency is instead seeking to build another wind farm on a bog atop the nearby Slieve Bearnagh.
Bank branch closures in Clare
I raised the appalling treatment by Bank of Ireland of its customers in Miltown Malbay, Kilkee and Tulla with the Interim CEO of Bank of Ireland at the Oireachtas Finance Committee.
Former KBC customers charged lower rate than existing BOI customers
The interim CEO of Bank of Ireland admitted to me at the Oireachtas Finance Committee that KBC’s former customers will be charged a lower variable rate than the bank’s own customers.
Ibec Mid-West holds pre-Budget meeting
Ibec Mid-West Regional Executive Committee held a pre-Budget 2023 meeting at Edward Lifesciences in Limerick on Monday.
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