“We need to recommence peat harvesting until 2030. Unhinged environmental policies have left workers in the Midlands devastated while we’re importing peat briquettes from Germany” says CAROL NOLAN TD. “Workers need a fair chance”. TDs need to stop having one foot in the green camp and one for the workers.”
Around this time last year, the streets surrounding Leinster House and Merrion Square were brought to a complete standstill by furious beef farmers. This followed years of having their produce and their work undervalued. They were fed up to the back teeth. They demanded change. Beef prices were on the floor. Morale was at all […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said there is widespread shock and anger at the sudden announcement by Bord Na Móna that it will permanently cease all peat harvesting and production. She said that the decision made “no sense .. given that solid fuels are now being imported into this country.” She said […]
Independent TD, Carol Nolan, has asked the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, to investigate revelations that the same insulation used in tower block in Grenfell is to be used in the construction of the new National Children’s Hospital. The Deputy for Laois Offaly said she had submitted a number of questions to the office of […]
Jobpath is described by government as an approach to “employment activation” which caters mainly for people who are long-term unemployed (12 months or more) to assist them to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Depending on where you live in the country it is delivered by one of two private companies – Seetec Limited […]
Carol Nolan, chair of new All-Party Pro-Life Group said today that they would be seeking amendments to the abortion legislation regarding late-term abortions and babies born alive after abortion. #gript
The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has refused to address the issue of babies born alive after abortion in Ireland, as revealed in a shocking new study from UCC which was published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Questions were submitted to Minister Donnelly on the issue by TDs including Peadar Tóibín of […]
A parliamentary question was recently submitted to the Health Minister by Carol Nolan TD who asked an important question concerning abortion and women’s health and safety . She wanted to know “the number of patients that received post termination of pregnancy care in maternity hospitals from January 2019 to date; the number of those that […]
The village I grew up in, settled in and even managed to find a husband in is a rural village in South Offaly called Cadamstown which lies at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains. Visitors to the area come here regularly to experience its tranquility and beauty, one would never suspect that this village […]
The Rural Independent Group has called on the current Taoiseach, Michael Martin, and the leader of the Green Party, Eamon Ryan, “to emerge from hiding and earnestly address” the controversy surrounding the actions of the Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar, who shared information on a GP contract with the IMO with a rival organisation. Commenting on the […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said that she has written to the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe asking him to urgently investigate the lack of insurance options for nursing homes who operate with a capacity of less than 40 beds. Deputy Nolan said that unless the matter is dealt with quickly and […]
The HSE has confirmed that they have no national system in place to identify and report when the use of abortion pills goes wrong. This means that important data on when abortion pills cause harm to women is not being reported in the same way as happens with other aspects of services provided by the […]