“Like the Penal Times”: TDs, including Michael Collins, Mattie McGrath and Carol Nolan have called for a Dáíl Debate to allow churches to open for Holy Week before Easter. Michael Collins TD said that the media were ignoring the read need and desire of people for worship. #gript
The Rural Independent Group of TDs have described the cabinet decision to “plough ahead with new legislation, banning oil and gas exploration, as utterly counterproductive”, claiming it to be a “groundless decision lacking any rational, scientific or evidence-based scrutiny”. The group warn of the impact on higher energy prices, with no reduction in greenhouse gas […]
The HSE has used Covid as a cover to close small rural hospitals, Independent Td Mattie McGrath has claimed. “The HSE are doing things now in the middle [of the Covid crisis] that they wanted to do for a long time,” Deputy McGrath said. “That’s disband and close all the rural hospitals. We are under […]
Rural TDs have urged politicians to give cross-party support to their motion which seeks to revoke the latest Covid-19 restrictions passed by the government which they say are “bizzare, illogical, and unworkable.” The Independent TDs were sharply critical of the actions of other deputies who they said voted for the Government’s restrictions in the Dáil […]