Green Party Senator and Dublin candidate for the European elections, Senator Deirdre de Burca, has welcomed the recent decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office to reject the WARF/Thomson stem cell patent application. The Board of Appeal has ruled that European patent law prohibits the patenting of human stem cell [...]

– De Burca welcomes Government’s electric car plan

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the Government’s plan to have 10% of all vehicles powered by electricity by 2020.

Senator De Burca called on Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and South Dublin County Council to investigate installing special electric [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the announcement of €16,362 for community and voluntary organisations providing support to vulnerable older people in their local communities.

The Scheme of Community Support for Older People assists qualifying people, aged 65 years and over, by means of grants towards the once-off cost [...]

Green Senator says Govt should propose measures on defence and workers rights; criticises Fine Gael and Sinn Fein for contemptuous and self-serving stunts

The Green Party’s European Affairs spokesperson Deirdre De Burca has welcomed the ruling of the Constitutional Court in the Czech Republic that the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with the Czech constitution. Senator De [...]

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Devins, and the opportunity to discuss this Private Members’ Bill. I congratulate Senator Mullen on bringing it forward. There is a need for comprehensive debate on stem cell research, especially the merits of embryonic stem cell research versus adult stem cell research. Unfortunately, due to the lack of [...]

Green Party Senator and European Candidate, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the news that Dublin will host the European City of Science meeting in July 2012.

The week-long event will bring approximately 8,000 visitors to Dublin city and is expected to be held in the Treasury Holdings-backed convention centre on the North side of Dublin’s River [...]

Green Party Senator and European Candidate, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the news that two Tallaght-based community centres – Kingswood Community Leisure Centre and St. Murin’s Road Tallaght – will receive grants totalling €127,500.  

Green Party Minister, Éamon Ó Cuív, announced a total of €2.4 million funding for 60 community-based projects around Ireland under a [...]

Green Party Senator and European Candidate, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the news that Knockmiten Youth & Community Centre will receive a grant worth €42,000. 

Green Party Minister, Éamon Ó Cuív, announced a total of €2.4 million funding for 60 community-based projects around Ireland under a special strand of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht [...]

Green Party Senator and European Candidate, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the news that Outhouse Community Resource Centre will receive a grant worth €42,000. 

Green Party Minister, Éamon Ó Cuív, announced a total of €2.4 million funding for 60 community-based projects around Ireland under a special strand of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs’ [...]

Green Party Senator and European Candidate, Deirdre De Burca, has welcomed the news that two North Dublin Community Centres – Outhouse Community Resource Centre and the Mid-Sutton Community Centre – will each receive a grant worth €42,000. 

Green Party Minister, Éamon Ó Cuív, announced a total of €2.4 million funding for 60 community-based projects around Ireland [...]