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12 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Some Govt agency should be tasked with monitoring alleged price gouging by service providers West Cork Senator Tim Lombard has backed the call of his colleague, Fine Gael TD Bernard Durkan, for a government agency to be tasked with monitoring price increases across utility and service providers. Senator...
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9 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Dangerous stretch between N73 Clogher Cross and Waterdyke a step closer Seán Sherlock TD (who is elected in Cork East – which includes part of North County Cork) has confirmed the contractor for the works on the N73 Clogher Cross to Waterdyke, on the Mallow to Mitchelstown Road....
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9 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Aer Lingus management have been asked to appear before the Oireachtas Transport Committee to explain what they are doing for the thousands of passengers let down by cancelled flights in recent weeks. Cork Fine Gael Senator Jerry Buttimer, a member of the Oireachtas Transport Committee, proposed the airline’s...
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7 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Kinsale gas pipeline should not be decommissioned due to current pressures on gas supplies in Europe and a lack of alternatives in Ireland, according to Fine Gael TD David Stanton. Deputy Stanton, who represents Cork East, raised the matter of the imminent decommissioning of the Kinsale gas...
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6 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Representatives of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) will address an Oireachtas Committee this morning and urge all political parties to support Socialist Party TD Mick Barry’s “Debenhams Bill”. ICTU representative Luam Berney will tell the committee: “The Bill we are discussing here today is an attempt...
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5 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A new bill to allow for the State to come up with a national strategy for recycling organic waste and turning it into biogas has been drafted by Cork South West Deputy Christopher O’Sullivan. The draft bill – the Anaerobic Digestion (National Strategy) Bill 2022 – will provide...
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4 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie People in Ireland could soon be able to communicate with contacts across multiple messaging apps, according to Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune EU lawmakers are set hold a final vote on new Digital Markets Act (DMA) this week, which is designed to limit the dominance of large platforms...
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4 July 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune – who lives in Blackrock, Cork City – is reminding parents to be aware of the marketing of unhealthy food towards their children over the summer holidays. As young people take a well earned break, more free time can mean more exposure to...
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1 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD for Cork East, Pat Buckley has urged the government to back the party’s plan to cut back-to-school costs. The plan contains a package of measures to ensure families get a much-needed break from the cost of living crisis by cutting spiralling back-to-school costs such as...
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30 June 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork has recently said the Government must proceed with plans for a vacant properties tax, following preliminary census results showing rates of vacancy in the city. Despite vacancy rates across Cork city and county falling in this census, preliminary data from Census 2022 shows...
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29 June 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Major reforms to Community Employment, Tús and the Rural Social Scheme will extend eligibility criteria for Cork participants and provide additional flexibility to local supervisors when it comes to recruitment, a Cork North Central TD has said. Deputy Colm Burke said: “These schemes support a range of vital...
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28 June 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cllr Michael Creed, Deputising for the Mayor of the County of Cork welcomed Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney to Béal na Bláth in County Cork to see the works which have taken place to date and those that are planned at the memorial in advance of the centenary...
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