Depury McGrath said the Climate Action Plan also has a “bitter bias” against the common car, given the requirement to shift to electric vehicles.
This is exactly the kind of creeping criminalisation that I have been warning about for some time.”
“It’s unfair that rural people have to make these sacrifices”
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She said that there were “very serious personal safety issues emerging around the isolated nature of some of the more rural school bus stops.”
Rural Independent TDs have said that without major amendments the Climate Action Bill “blatantly attacks the fabric of rural Ireland and our democracy”. Ahead of the Report Stage debate and vote on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill in the Dáil, the Rural Independent TDs hd called on backbench government TDs to […]
“AN END TO THE BEEF BARONS”: Rural independents call for new beef regulator to save family farms. #gript
A Westport-based company will create 150 new technology jobs after raising €8.3 million in a new round of funding. The payroll tech company, Payslip, which was founded by former Taxback CEO Fidelma McGuirk, will provide the new jobs mostly in software engineering, taking the number of staff employed by the firm to almost 200. The news is a […]
While the Climate Change Bill attracted most of the political attention this week – with just 12 TDs voting to oppose the legislation at second stage – of equal significance was a vote also taken on Wednesday evening on a motion regarding Project 2040 comprising of the National Development Plan and Framework. The private members […]
“A STALINIST POLICY” – Wexford TD Verona Murphy blasts new rural planning rules, claiming they will force rural people into “urbanised ghettos.” #gript
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 […]
Aontú Rep for Cork North-West, Becky Kealy, has critiqued the government’s continued abandonment of rural pubs, and the return of arbitrary regulations of the pub trade which has already been through so much this year. Ms Kealy said that “In Cork, rural Pubs were waiting in anticipation for the government announcement regarding restrictions for the […]