Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed €219,500 funding to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in North Dublin.
Senator De Burca said that the funding, announced as part of a €3 million dormant account funding package, would help local groups to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in the community. The funding [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed €240,840 funding to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in South Dublin.
Senator De Burca said that the funding, announced as part of a €3 million dormant account funding package, would help local groups to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in the community. The funding [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed €145,000 funding to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in Dublin City.
Senator De Burca said that the funding, announced as part of a €3 million dormant account funding package, would help local groups to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in the community. The funding [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed €134,355 funding to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in Fingal.
Senator De Burca said that the funding, announced as part of a €3 million dormant account funding package, would help local groups to tackle drug abuse and homelessness in the community. The funding specifically [...]

-Select few want to cut a deal allowing registration to be voluntary
Green Party MEP candidate for Dublin Senator Deirdre de Burca has called for immediate EU action on the mandatory registration of lobbyists, saying a select few in the European Parliament wish to cut a deal to avoid mandatory registering.
Senator de Burca said: “The ‘Inter-institutional/High-Level [...]

Party unity has fallen apart over Saturday’s Leinster v Munster showdown
The Green Party is deeply split ahead of this weekend’s Heineken Cup semi-final between Leinster and Munster in Croke Park. In a show of provincial disunity MEP candidates Senator Deirdre de Burca and Dan Boyle today donned their team’s colours ahead of Saturday’s highly anticipated [...]

-First website, now posters; is the Party short on ideas, asks de Burca?
Green Party MEP candidate for Dublin Senator Deirdre de Burca has said she is flattered by the imitation of her poster campaign by Fine Gael’s Mairead McGuinness in an advert in today’s Farming supplement in the Irish Independent, saying ‘they obviously like my [...]

In attendance:  Mr. David Waddell, Mr. Aidan Moore and Ms Jacqueline Moore of the Standards in Public Office Commission
I welcome the representatives from the Standards in Public Office Commission and thank them for their report and the important set of recommendations they have made. We must not be complacent about our democracy. The commission’s role [...]

Green Party Health Spokesperson and Dublin Candidate for the European Elections Senator Deirdre de Burca has called for a ‘calm but vigilant’ response by health authorities and members of the public across the EU following the confirmation of a case of swine flu in Spain.
“The confirmation of swine flu in Spain is a very worrying [...]

Dublin is missing out on hundreds of well paid, professional EU- funded jobs, said Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre de Burca today.
 
“Examining one category of EU grants alone – Research and Development grants for Employment and Social Affairs – I find that the European Union spend tens of millions of Euro [...]