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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
23/09/09
PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS SHOWS ECONOMY THE WAY – SHERLOCK
THE TURNOUT at this year's annual Ploughing Championships is a clear indicator that the Agri-Business Sector can lead the way to economic recovery, according to Labour Spokesperson for Agriculture and Food Seán Sherlock TD.
Deputy Sherlock warned, however, that the current Government policies are undermining growth in the sector. The Cork East TD made the comments as he addressed the Speaker's Corner at the National Ploughing Championships in Athy, Co. Kildare.
"That there are over a thousand businesses here today is a testament to the potential for Rural Ireland to be at the forefront of our economic recovery. That agri-business has worked its way down the pecking order in terms of government priorities is an understatement. "Cuts in vital schemes such as REPS and the Disadvantaged Area Schemes, to name but a few, and the political response to the crisis in the Dairy Sector is proof positive that this Government has shifted its base away from rural priorities to urban priorities. "I, as a member of the Labour Party, along with my leader, Eamon Gilmore am committed to re-affirming, as a priority in Government, the need to place the rural economy at the heart of our economic recovery. "The challenge for us as politicians will be to rethink our approach to agri-business to ensure that there is a central role for agriculture and to ensure that it does not slip down the pecking order of priorities as it has done in the recent past," said Deputy Sherlock. In his speech last Wednesday, September 23, Deputy Sherlock touched upon a number of issues, including the need to address the Groceries Order, why realigning the relationship between retailer and producer is necessary and the importance of the Co-Operative movement in light of the withdrawal of Agriculture subsidies. Deputy Sherlock concluded by highlighting the importance of a Yes vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum. "On the Lisbon Treaty, my views are simple. Vote Yes. By Voting Yes farmers will, through the extension of the co-decision procedure, be able to have a grater say through our European Parliament Agriculture Committee," said Deputy Sherlock "If Lisbon is agreed, then the European Parliament has more power and if it has more power then so will you. That is a fact." » MINISTER ENCOURAGES JUNIOR CERT STUDENTS TO CONTINUE THEIR STUDIES IN SCIENCE AND HIGHER LEVEL MATHS
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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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