Emer Higgins, TD

The Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) announced today that it will start accepting applications on Monday the 9th of September from authorised Personal Insolvency Practitioners and Approved Intermediaries for the new debt reliefs on behalf of insolvent debtors under the Personal Insolvency Act.

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Mid-West, Derek Keating, has welcomed confirmation that the traffic management control system at the N4 Kennelford Road and M50 junctions in Palmerstown is due to be upgraded. The works are being allocated by South Dublin County Council, using monies provided to it by the Department of Transport.

Phil Hogan, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government today launched (23 August 2013) the public consultation for Ireland’s first National Implementation Report under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (known as the PRTR Protocol).

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat Deering, has written to the Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, to investigate the possibility of introducing a student loan system similar to that in the UK.

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat Deering, has today (Thursday) welcomed the news that four new primary care posts are being allocated to the area in the form of two speech and language therapists, one occupational therapist and one physiotherapist.

The Minister welcomes the appointment of Mr. Cyril Roux to the position of Deputy Governor, Financial Regulation at the Central Bank.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo and Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications, John O’Mahony, has come out in support of the campaigns by the Active Retirement Association of Ireland and the Irish Post Masters Union who are protesting against what they have described as 'aggressive' paperless billing policies by certain companies.

Fine Gael TD for Cork South West, Jim Daly, has written to the Cork County Sheriff, Ms. Sinead McNamara, asking for reconsideration of the current arrangement which sees county votes at referendums being hosted and counted in Cork city.

4,640 false alarm calls made in Cork city in the last 5 years costing local authority dearly.

Fine Gael TD for Meath West, Ray Butler, has welcomed the announcement by the HSE that a new adult mental health Acute Admissions Unit for Louth and Meath will be developed on a site located at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Healthcare Campus in Drogheda. The purpose built unit will have a bed capacity of 45.