Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre de Burca has congratulated the Balbriggan Awareness of Drugs group on their swift and effective response to the Head Shop which opened recently in the town.

Senator de Burca was invited to a meeting of the Balbriggan Drugs Group by Minister of State and local TD Trevor [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre de Burca has said that new legislation may be necessary to properly regulate the ‘Head Shops’ that are springing up all over Dublin.

“As Health Spokesperson for the Green Party I have been very concerned about the appearance of these so-called “Head Shops” on the main streets [...]

Senator Déirdre de Búrca:    Like others, I welcome the opportunity to discuss the appalling situation that pertains in Gaza at the moment, and to consider the motions put before us. It is appropriate that this committee is discussing the issue, because we had much debate recently about the Lisbon treaty and very strong arguments were [...]

I welcome the delegations and thank them for their presentations. The responses to the issues raised in the European Union Green Paper were interesting. There was a slight contradiction in the issues raised by the representatives of the farming organisations and those raised by Food and Drink Industry Ireland. I would like Mr. Barry to [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, has expressed concern that Dubliners pay an average of 4.5 per cent more for their goods and services than consumers in the rest of the State, according to the latest price comparison by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). She has called for immediate government [...]

Ringsend Waste Water Treatment Plant: Discussion.

Chairman:    We will now proceed to the main item on today’s agenda, namely, the report on the Ringsend waste water treatment plant. Members will recall that at the meeting on 18 November 2008 we decided to invite the author of the recent report on the Ringsend waste water treatment plant [...]

Green Party European Affairs spokesperson and European Election Candidate for Dublin, Senator Deirdre de Burca, who spoke at a press conference organised by Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign today, said: “The Green Party believes that the European Union will have to address its limited and ineffective handling of the crisis in Gaza over the past few [...]

Green Party Senator and Dublin candidate for the European elections, Deirdre de Burca,has welcomed the extension of the national energy rating system, which advises on the energy efficiency of buildings. This system is now being extended to all homes that go for sale or rent from January 2009.
In welcoming the extension of the system, Senator [...]

Green Party Senator and Dublin candidate for the European elections, Deirdre de Burca has commended theDepartment of the Environment for the amount of funding made available to Local Authorities in 2008 towards  the continuing development of Dublin’s waste recycling infrastructure.
“Nationally a total of 47 waste recycling projects, such as bring banks, civic amenity sites, composting [...]

Green Party Senator and Dublin candidate for the European elections, Deirdre de Burca has welcomed the government announcement that a further additional top-up funding of €1,014,000 has been allocated to projects in or serving RAPID (Revitalising Areas by Planning, Investment and Development) areas that were successful under the Sports Capital Programme 2008. 

Projects selected by [...]