Jerry Buttimer, TD

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he has influenced his colleagues at EU and UN level to focus on the on-going strife and loss of life in Syria.

I welcome the extension of the Smoky Coal Ban to Wicklow Town and Greystones

I welcome the extension of the Smoky Coal Ban to Wicklow Town and Greystones

I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this issue, which is of intense interest and importance to every citizen. An overrun in the HSE budget is nothing new, but this one is disturbing for us all.

Olivia Mitchell TD, has questioned how many other apartment blocks may have similar issues to The Laurels in Dundrum and if they will be discovered and rectified before lives are endangered.

Paudie Coffey has called for the proposed ban on the advertising of cheese during certain children’s programmes to be scrapped. While recognising the need to restrict unhealthy food advertising, Deputy Coffey said cheese should be treated differently as there has been no increase in the consumption of cheese in children or teenagers for the last two decades. He added that the cheese sector is very important to the Irish economy.