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Mortgage Interest Rates
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the predicted increase in mortgage interest rates in 2011, which will add further financial pressure to hard-pressed homeowners, many of whom it is believed will fall behind on payments or face selling their homes as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter Education
Several schools throughout the constituency are in need of refurbishment or rebuilding while increasing class sizes are putting more pressure on already overstretched resources.
Job Creation
North and East Cork has been dealt a number of severe blows in terms of the loss of traditional industry.
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NEWS
31/08/10
MEETING SIGNALS HOPE FOR WORKS TO N72
Labour Party Councillor Ronan Sheehan said he is hopeful that funding will be released for long overdue improvements to the N72 following a meeting with the National Roads Authority in Dublin this week
Cllr Sheehan, who chaired a delegation of elected councillors and officials, to the meeting with Michael Egan, Head of the NRA's corporate affairs unit described the meeting as a ‘positive development'.
"This followed numerous requests from the members of the Northern Committee of Cork County Council for a meeting to highlight the genuine concerns we all have regarding the safety of this stretch of road. It was a strong delegation that travelled to Dublin intent on hammering our message home and this was duly noted by Mr Egan and his team," said Cllr Sheehan. "My party colleague Seán Sherlock TD had previously met with the NRA and received a commitment that a road survey would be carried out at Carrig, Mallow. This was reaffirmed to us during the course of Monday's meeting," he added. Meanwhile, Fermoy based Councillor Noel McCarthy also impressed on the NRA the need for road realignment works on the Fermoy to Castletownroche stretch of this route. "We were assured that the N72 has been earmarked as a priority. It was also stated that we can expect to hear from the National Roads Authority within a matter of weeks on their plans for this stretch of road which has been identified as one of the ten most dangerous roads in the Republic of Ireland," said Cllr McCarthy |
Address: Tel: Email: 30/01/12
“Lero: a superb example of an Irish-based research centre delivering impacts regionally, nationally and globally” – Sherlock
Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock T.D., today [Monday]announced Government funding through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) of €16 million for Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre based at the University of Limerick (UL).
26/01/12
Minister Sherlock publishes draft legislation regarding copyright law Draft
R E G U L A T I O N S entitled European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012
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