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Commissioner Günter Verheugen
Mr. Martin Territt, director, European Commission Representation in Ireland;
Mr. Eckehard Rosenbaum, DG Enterprise and Industry
Andreas Schwarz, a member of the Commissioner’s Cabinet
Senator Déirdre de Búrca: I welcome the Commissioner and thank him for his presentation.
I shall take up some of the points raised by Deputy Tuffy. In his presentation the Commissioner argued that [...]
Everyone knows that generating your own electricity can save you money. But know it can make you money too! A programme announced today by the Green Party’s Energy Minister Eamon Ryan, means that any homeowners who produce excess electricity at home can now sell it back to the ESB to make a profit.
The [...]
Green Party Senator Deirdre De Burca has urged Dublin drivers to pay attention to cyclists following the launch of the Dublin ghost bike scheme.
Ghost Bikes are memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site, [...]
Senator Deirdre De Burca has been selected to represent the European Green Party during the forthcoming election campaign. The Green Party’s MEP candidate for Dublin will be one of the faces of the campaign, alongside the Green Leader in the European Parliament Danny Cohn-Bendit. Austria’s Ulrike Lunacek, Philippe Lamberts from Belgium and German [...]
The Green Party has announced its shortlist of film clips, devised by a selection of Irish filmmakers and animators in a competition to promote the Party and its messages. The films have been uploaded to YouTube for voting and two finalists will go forward to Party’s National Convention, where the overall winner will be decided.
Green [...]
Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, has urged Dublin City Council not to charge Dublin restaurants for monitoring drainage.
The Council has ordered that all Dublin food outlets including pubs, restaurants and hotels pay hundreds of thousands of euro in annual costs to maintain the city’s drains.
In 2008 the council introduced [...]
Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, has given a cautious welcome to the news that Dublin City Council will build a 22km promenade and cycle path around Dublin Bay.
The proposed design will run from Sutton to Sandycove (S2S) and will be the longest urban seafront cycle route and [...]
Energy savings from efficient bulbs equivalent to yearly output from ten power stations
The Green Party’s spokesperson for European Affairs Senator Deirdre de Burca welcomed a vote today by MEPs that will facilitate the phasing out of environmentally inefficient light bulbs in Ireland.
Senator Deirdre de Burca, who is the Party’s Dublin candidate for the European elections [...]
Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, has opposed a decision by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to build a car park in a field in Booterstown near a conservation area.
The planned site, once used as a circus field, will now become an overflow car park for the Booterstown dart station. [...]
