Pádraic Vallely, Fianna Fáil local election candidate for the Ballincollig-Carrigaline area, says he was delighted to attend the announcement today by Zevas Communications that 50 new jobs will be created at the company. Zevas Communications currently employs over 200 staff members at its offices in Cork, Dublin, Hamburg, Madrid and San Francisco. “There have been […]

Sean Fleming T.D. has said there must be an independent enquiry carried out by the Health Information Quality Authority (HIQA) to investigate the HSE handling of tragic deaths of 4 babies in the Portlaoise Maternity Unit and the subsequent cover up of this by very senior people in the HSE. Both I and everybody I […]

Sean Fleming T.D., has called for the HSE to totally re-evaluate its ambulance service operating in Co. Laois. Reports have emerged of a fatal accident in Portlaoise town approximately 1 mile from Portlaoise General Hospital on Friday evening the 31 January and no ambulance was available in Portlaoise or anywhere in the County and an […]

Fianna Fáil has said that the Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation should insist on the right to vet the credentials of the next IDA chief executive. The party’s Spokesperson on Jobs Dara Calleary has said Minister Richard Bruton should give a commitment that the Government’s nominee will be presented to the committee for a […]

Fianna Fáil’s Leader on Dublin City Council and candidate in the European Parliament elections, Mary Fitzpatrick has responded to today’s reports of Labour Party ‘plans’ to cut property tax, but only after the local elections and only on councils where they take the majority of seats. Cllr. Fitzpatrick commented, “I think that people will have […]

Waiting times for life-saving scans ranging from two weeks to two and a half years highlight glaring inequalities that remain in the health service according to Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Health Billy Kelleher. Deputy Kelleher was responding to information released to him by the HSE. It revealed that University Hospital Limerick currently has a waiting […]