If those to whom problems are addressed, in this case the young people who are the main culprits and offenders in road accidents, do not identify with the people appointed to administer and regulate those problems, we may have made a wrong appointment. Anyone reading three of this morning’s newspapers will see a photograph on …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘March, 2006’
Apologies for Terrorism from Government should not be Tolerated
Reacting to comments by Senator Mary White in the wake of ETA’s ceasefire, I told the Seanad that apologies for terrorism from Government benches should not be tolerated. I am concerned about the apologies for terrorism emanating from the Government benches. If Senator White wants to use the Seanad to praise the president of Sinn …
Government Fails to Understand the Importance of Broadband
A special committee report published last week concluded that Government progress on broadband has been ‘almost non-existent’. It reveals the Government’s startling ignorance of the importance of broadband provision.
What Plans are there to Prevent Deaths from TB?
Following reports of an outbreak of TB in Dublin, the time has come to pose this difficult question. As a child, I had TB and was in hospital for quite a long time. It was a depressing time and a lot of people died in beds around me. I would hate to see that sort …
Opposition to the Nitrates Directive is Opportunistic and Sacrifices Public Health Concerns
The nitrates directive was first meant to come into force in 1991. It amazes me that it did not come into force much earlier and that successive Governments have resisted its implementation for so long. The Minister should be commended for hastening this in his early days in office, and the directive should have been …