Press Releases

I have been in contact over the past few weeks with the OPW, Inland Waterways and the ESB to ensure that the levels of water on the River Shannon are…

With regard to the controversy about the release of the Fennelly Report this week there are some very serious issues that need to be addressed. First of all it is…

Anyone who looked at the image of that 3 year old refugee boy lying dead on a beach in Turkey couldn’t but be moved by it and I am in…

I am once again today calling on Minister Varadkar and the HSE to take seriously the massive problems facing our health service before the situation becomes so chaotic that it…

With regard to the milk price controversy, I am aware that the big co-ops are sending representatives around to farmers informing them that they must join up with the An…

As thousands of our young people head off to start College life this week I am thinking of the part apprenticeships can play in providing some of our young people…

It has come to my attention that earlier this week two ambulances from Longford attended calls in county Roscommon because of lack of resources there. That meant that Longford was…

Minister Simon Coveney is still in denial on the problems facing the milk sector and the problems surrounding the falling prices being offered to farmers. During the week Minister Coveney…

With regard to the current housing crisis in the country I have made an enquiry to the Department of the Enviornment to ask them to outline the numbers of vacant…

There is a solution to the constant and unsustainable increasing rent situation that now exists in the larger urban centres where students are looking for accommodation for the new academic…