Today’s guest post is from Joe O’Reilly who is a Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan. I will definitely be responding when I return from holidays and think many of my readers will be interested in what he has to say. I want to thank Suzy for giving me the space to talk to you about […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking there were not 437,000 people on the live register given the last ten days of fightbacks, distractions, chicken impressions (Mary Hanafin) and the rest. Now Dara Calleary (next leader of FF though I don’t see the draw myself) today was anxious to talk about the 1250 jobs that were […]
Tags:#ge11·Cash For Gold·Job Creation·Political Reform·Recession·Universal Social Charge
Amnesty International and See Change are hosting a number of public events on the subject of ending discrimination and stigma in the area of mental health. One of the current projects supported by both groups First Fortnight which takes place this Saturday in Dublin with a public debate on the subject of Have attitudes and […]
No doubt there is a lot of fevered scribbling going on amongst political parties at the moment with regards to writing their manifestos to be launched during General Election 2011. After the election during the coalition negotiations a Programme for Government will be produced with more lobbying by pressure groups and priorities slipping in the […]
As I have referred to frequently in the blog posts on the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010 there are to be significant changes to social welfare entitlement, benefit, and assessment for those in civil partnerships and also to those cohabiting in same sex relationships. The Department of Social Protection now have […]
Tags:Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010·Civil Partnership Ireland·Social Protection