Ireland should follow Spanish lead on professional accreditation
The Green Party’s candidate for Dublin in the European elections today called for the implementation in Ireland of European initiatives to train, accredit and certify Irish trade professionals in new ‘green-collar’ trades. She was speaking at a seminar on green economics in Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin today.
According to [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed the announcement that Environment Minister John Gormley is to scrap the e-voting machines.
The e-voting machines were purchased to modernise Irish voting but were found to have vital programming flaws that affected the security of votes. Green Party leader and Environment Minister John Gormley [...]

The Minister covered a number of issues but I will focus on two, the first of which is the European economic recovery plan, about which I have some concerns. The feeling is that it has been rather underwhelming, in the sense that it appears to be more an amalgam of national recovery plans than a [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed the announcement that Inchicore, Ballyfermot and Walkinstown libraries will be awarded €500,000 under a two year capital programme for public libraries.
The libraries will receive €250,000 funding in 2009 and a further €250,000 in 2010. A total of €8.5 million has been awarded to [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, welcomed the announcement that Ballymun and Finglas libraries will be awarded €500,000 under a two year capital programme for public libraries.
The libraries will receive €250,000 funding in 2009 and a further €250,000 in 2010. A total of €8.5 million has been awarded to libraries [...]

Green Party Senator and European candidate for Dublin, Deirdre De Burca, pledged to push homeless strategy on to the political agenda.
Senator De Burca made the pledge following an announcement that the homeless strategy national implementation plan has been finalised and aims to open 300 units of mainstream accommodation for homeless people this year. The plan [...]

Senator Deirdre de Burca, the Green Party’s MEP candidate for Dublin, has refused an invitation to become a candidate for Libertas for “many reasons.”
The invitation came in the form of the email, which follows below, and has been sent to thousands of email addresses. It highlights the difficulty Libertas are apparently having in attracting candidates [...]

Relief is on the way for bus and ferry passengers as the European Parliament prepares to pass legislation that will oblige operators to pay out compensation for poor or interrupted service.
According to Green Party MEP candidate for Dublin Senator Deirdre de Burca, passengers will be entitled to a 50% refund if their ferry journey is [...]

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Green Party European candidate for Dublin Senator Deirdre de Burca has called on all candidates running in the local and European elections to refuse to accept donations from any financial institutions or property companies.
Senator de Burca said: “In some cases, the donation statements from candidates in the 2004 European elections read like a who’s who [...]