Posted 01/02/12
Fianna Fáil Justice Spokesperson Dara Calleary has called for urgent action from the Justice Minister Alan Shatter to fill the senior garda posts that have been left vacant by retirements over the past six months. Deputy Calleary has said he is deeply concerned by the Minister’s failure to take any action to fill the posts of the most two senior gardaí in the Anglo investigation, who retired before Christmas. Read More |
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Posted 26/01/12
The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has claimed he is unable to identify the cost of running any of the garda stations that he is now planning to shut down. In reply to Parliamentary Questions from Fianna Fáil Justice Spokesperson Dara Calleary, Minister Shatter said the costs are maintained at a district level, so he does not know how much it costs the State to run each individual station. Read More |
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Posted 25/01/12
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Justice Dara Calleary TD has responded to the publication of draft proposals on personal insolvency including mortgage debt, welcoming the publication but expressing concern that the proposals do not go far enough and fail to tackle the key issue of banks refusing to act reasonably. Read More |
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Posted 20/01/12
The Minister with responsibility for Mental Health Kathleen Lynch has failed to provide any reassurance that the planned downgrading of mental health services in Co Mayo will not proceed by the end of February. Minister Lynch was questioned on the Dáil last week by Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary about fears that the in-patient mental health services at St Joseph’s District Hospital in Ballina and the stand-alone unit at Teach Aisling in Castlebar will closed at the end of February. Read More |
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Posted 20/01/12
The Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the Personal Insolvency Bill to reform our bankruptcy laws will not be published until April, despite his colleague Alan Shatter grabbing headlines today by claiming it would be published next week. Read More |
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Posted 18/01/12
Fianna Fáil Justice Spokesman Dara Calleary TD has said that the Government must produce a comprehensive framework on internet management which balances the rights of copyholders, the privacy of end users, and the need to maintain and protect a dynamic internet. He was speaking as a range of high profile website, as well as local site Broadsheet.ie decided to “go dark” in protest at draconian legislation being debated on the matter in the US Congress. Read More |
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Posted 09/01/12
Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has welcomed the announcement that US pharmaceutical firm Allergan is to create 200 jobs in Co Mayo, with a major expansion of its facility in Westport.
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Posted 19/12/11
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Justice Dara Calleary TD has called for a commitment from the Justice Minister and the Garda Commissioner that two senior gardaí leading the investigation into financial irregularities at Anglo Irish Bank will be replaced without delay. Read More |
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Posted 19/12/11
Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has said he is ‘shocked and appalled’ at the news that two psychiatric units in Co Mayo are due to be shut in two months time. Read More |
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