Senator de Búrca addresses Union of Students in Ireland
Green Party Senator Déirdre de Búrca has said the future of Europe is of critical importance to young people and that students have an important role to play in shaping the future direction of the European Union.
Speaking at the Annual Congress of the Union of Students in [...]
I welcome the Minister, Deputy Gormley, to the House. I also welcome the publication of the draft planning guidelines on sustainable residential development in urban areas and the accompanying best practiceurban design manual. It is fortunate that every time the Minister comes into the House it is with a good news story. I congratulate him [...]
Green Party Senator Déirdre de Búrca has called on Libertas, a group actively campaigning against the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, to clarify its position on an EU Energy Policy.
Senator de Búrca says that an entire section of the Libertas website addresses the issue of energy policy within the Union. “The website identifies the fact [...]
I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The matter I am raising on the Adjournment concerns the future of the domiciliary birth service, which is more commonly known as the home birth service, in this country and, in particular, the immediate threat that indemnity cover will be removed for independent midwives who really [...]
I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am pleased to have an opportunity to discuss this Labour Party Bill which attempts to highlight an important issue that requires Government attention. Temporary agency work has been the most rapidly growing form of atypical work in the EU over the past 20 years. The [...]
I wish to express my concern that Dublin Port Tunnel was closed again yesterday for several hours owing to problems which arose, causing major traffic congestion in the city centre. This is not the first time it has happened. There have been a number of incidents in the past couple of months which have caused [...]
I welcome both delegations and was pleased to hear the presentations. I will start with USI because its representatives made their presentation first.
I am pleased to hear the positive comments made by the USI representatives about Europe, the European Union and all the benefits that have flowed to students due to Ireland’s membership of [...]
89TH PLENARY SESSION
Thank you, Chairman. Chairman, I would like to welcome Jens‑Peter Bonde to the Forum today and just to say that I have great admiration for Jens‑Peter for all of the work that he has done over the years in terms of trying to promote greater democracisation of the European Union. I think he has produced an [...]
Irish and European Greens meet in Galway on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th March 2008. Pictured (from left): Ciarán Cuffe TD, Senator Dan Boyle, Cllr David Healy, Cllr Niall O’Brolcháin, Margret Auken MEP (Denmark), Pierre Jonckheer MEP (Belgium), Senator Déirdre de Búrca, Jean Lambert MEP (UK)
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I apologise for my late arrival. I wish to raise a couple of points regarding some of the issues to which the Minister referred.
I welcome the publication of the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill. I am sure there will be lively debates in both Houses of the Oireachtas on the issue of [...]
