Fianna Fail Senator Averil Power has called on Diageo to cover the financial cost of the additional public services needed to manage Arthur’s Day. These costs include the extra gardaí required to police the event and the major clean-up operation the following day. According to the North Dublin Senator, the taxpayer should not have to […]

Senior Counsel and Fianna Fáil Deputy Director of Elections Cllr Jim O’Callaghan has identified the proposed removal of Article 27 of the Constitution as ‘the most disturbing element of the Government’s Seanad abolition power grab.’  Article 27 provides that a controversial law, that is deemed to have been passed by the Oireachtas, may be referred […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Health, Billy Kelleher TD, has called for an independent audit into the ambulance service. Deputy Kelleher was responding to the revelation that an ambulance transporting a transplant patient from Cork to Dublin broke down on the outskirts of Dublin having ran out of diesel. “I find it appalling and wholly unacceptable […]

Fianna Fáil Director of Elections Niall Collins TD has called on Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton to apologise for misleading voters in the run-up to the Seanad referendum after the central plank of the Fine Gael campaign was exposed as untrue in correspondence published by the Referendum Commission. Deputy Collins commented: “From the beginning, the Fine […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform Sean Fleming has said the Minister for Public Expenditure is failing to control wasteful spending by State agencies after it was revealed Forfás spent €1,407,655m on vacant office space in 2012. Deputy Fleming commented: “The 2012 Financial Statements from Forfás raises serious questions for Minister Howlin and […]

In light of the recent publication of the worrying OECD report, Fianna Fáil Senator Thomas Byrne has called on the Government to wake up from its complacency over the jobs crisis.  “Earlier this year, I voiced my concern about the fact that the IDA did not visit Co. Meath at all last year. Considering both […]