With the weather the way it has been over the past few months, and I realise there is a pick up in the weather at the moment, but under the…
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It is alarming to hear that 50,000 people walked out of A and E units around the country last year because of the long waiting times. If those people had…
The revelation today that there are 250,000 vacant houses around the country will have to be looked into, but there are a lot of those houses that may not be…
With regard to Job Bridge, the scheme was brought in at a time of mass unemployment to try to get people into the work place but unfortunately we have seen…
The new Minister for Transport Shane Ross will have to ensure that a proper transport infrastructure plan for the West of Ireland is drawn up and he will have to…
I have this evening (18th May) announced that I am leaving the Independent Alliance. The only member of the grouping not to support Enda Kenny’s nomination for Taoiseach his future…
The news from the PNA (Psychiatric Nurses Association) this week that there are 600 vacancies in the mental health sector for nurses, and that another 400 will become available because…
Ireland is now in the midst of a claim culture which is adding to insurance costs in a number of areas and it will have to be tackled if insurance…
The ’forgotten farmers’ who attended with me during negotiations have got a commitment in the programme for Government announced this week that the Minister for Agriculture will be going to…
The biggest of the many challenges facing the new Government is the housing crisis and every possible solution including emergency legislation will have to be used in order to address…