Updated / Thursday, 6 May 2021
15:52
Rural TDs have expressed serious reservations about the proposed legislation
Minister for the Environment and Climate, Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan has introduced the Climate Action Bill to the Dáil.
The wide-ranging bill includes cuts in carbon emissions, a key priority for the Green Party when it entered Government last year.
Rural TDs have this afternoon expressed serious reservations about the proposed legislation.
TD Mattie McGrath, of the Rural Independent Group, warned that the Bill, which he said is being rushed through , diminishes our democracy as it includes little or no democratic accountability , and gives the Climate Change Advisory Council much more input than elected TDs.
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Cinemas seek clarity on contradictory dates for reopening Government removes reopening date online as TDs post about June 7th on social media
Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 18:30
Irish cinema owners have expressed anger about confusion over when they will be able to reopen, after a date of June 7th was “listed and then delisted” on Thursday.
The confusion extended to prominent social media posts from some Fianna Fáil politicians’ accounts, touting a June 7th reopening.
That a reopening date was circulated and then withdrawn is “completely unacceptable”, said Mark Anderson, a director of the Omniplex Cinema Group, who wrote to the Minister and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media on Friday afternoon, looking for clarity on the issue.
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has defended a pay rise which was planned for Robert Watt, new secretary general of the Department of Health.
The Government had planned to pay him €292,000 but he is now being paid €211,000.
Speaking at the Oireachtas Finance Committee this afternoon, Mr Martin said that the Department of Health was not like other departments .
The Taoiseach said he believed the pay rise was appropriate for the position for Secretary General of the Department of Health. Being a former Minister of Health I think the increase is appropriate to the position, he said.
He said the salary increase was warranted when you consider the transformation that is required in Health .
Remembering the great Kilkenny Hug Fest of 2012!
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A flashback to the 2012 Hug Fest with then-Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan with Aoibhín Murphy, Rosemary Collier and John McGuinness TD Picture: Pat Moore );
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The inscription on the greeting cards reads: ‘The average person needs 300 hugs each month to remain healthy, happy and secure’ and inside, in my friend’s handwriting: ‘Good luck with
that, Gerry. Stay safe.’
Good luck indeed. 300 hugs a month! Not a hope in hell. Three hugs a month in this climate and one is doing well.
And then I remembered giving, and getting, almost 30 hugs in the space of one hour, all of nine years ago.