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Ban Bee Pesticide

April 12, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

Corporate lobbying to prevent a ban on Bee pesticides is intensifying. This issue is a concern to us all. I will be pushing Minister Coveney on this critical issue when the Dail reconvenes.

via corporateeurope.org

Biotech and pesticides giants Syngenta and Bayer are waging an all-out lobbying war against an upcoming vote on a limited ban on three of their pesticides1. The European Commission (EC) proposed this ban following very critical conclusions by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) based on new scientific evidence. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) had access to private letters and emails sent by these two companies and allied lobby groups to the EC as well as EFSA, which displayed their strong-arm tactics to
try to avoid the ban.

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Category: animals, Environment /

CAHWT meeting Malahide 28/03/2013

March 29, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

Category: Home Tax /

EU wide petition to protect public water services.

March 22, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

A European Citizen’s Initiative has raised over one million signatures petitioning the EU to make commitments in the area of access to water and sanitation. The petition also calls on the EU to protect water services across Europe from ‘internal market rules’ and privatisation. Essentially the campaign seeks to keep water services in the public’s hands. Read more

Category: Economy, Environment /

Cyprus: Troika empty the ATM’s

March 19, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

The bailout deal for Cyprus has been greeted by Ireland’s Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan as a “positive development for Cyprus, the euro zone and Ireland”. Mr. Noonan is showing his true colours, as the only people for whom this is good news are the senior bondholders who have transferred their debt directly on to the shoulders of Cypriot families.

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Category: Economy /

Anti Austerity Song

March 17, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

hats off to local anti home tax campaign activist Emer Fox who put this great Anti Austerity song & video together

Category: Video /

Workers threatened with dismissal over industrial action

March 12, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

Supporting 7 workers who manage corporate travel arrangements for the Kerry Group who are threatened with dismissal. Below is a copy of their press release from Monday.

Press Release
BCD Travel employees threatened with immediate dismissal
Date Released: 11 March 2013

SIPTU members employed by BCD Travel, which manages corporate travel arrangements for the Kerry Group, have been threatened with immediate dismissal and the non-payment of redundancy entitlements if they exercise their right to take industrial action.

The seven workers based in the Kerry Group head office in Tralee, Co. Kerry, were informed of the threat by the management of BCD Travel late last week following their unanimous vote to take industrial action on Wednesday, 6th March. Read more

Category: Workers' rights /

Social Media and Cyber Bullying

March 5, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

05/03/2013
Submission by
Clare Daly TD
to
The Joint Committee on Transport and Communications in relation to the abuse of social media and cyber-bullying

Main Points

1. implementation of a national education programme dealing with online etiquette

2. protect children through educating the correct use of internet technologies

3. bring industry in from the cold and task them with being part of educational change

4. curtailing the use of the internet simply won’t work

5. traditional media have a role and responsibility in their reporting

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Home Broadcasting Tax

March 1, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

The TV licence fee funds public service broadcasts and insures that private media moguls do not get to own all the viewpoints in broadcast media.

What we must avoid is allowing a home broadcasting tax become a tax that is not linked to usage or ownership, if let, this TV tax will become a tax on people for merely existing.

Supporting public service broadcasting is part of protecting media diversity. As the Minister for Communications deliberates on changing from TV licence fee to home broadcasting tax, here are some pointers to be mindful of.
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Category: broadcasting, Home Tax /

HSE: use the LRC – electrician strike at St James’s Hospital continues

February 28, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments

Time the HSE were introduced to the LRC: their intransigence & abuse of industrial relations machinery is shocking.

TEEU PRESS RELEASE
February 28th, 2013 – TEEU refers dispute at St James’s Hospital to Labour Court as management threatens to dismiss all electricians. Read more

Category: Workers' rights /

Stop the sell off of Ireland’s forests

February 26, 2013 / Clare Daly / No comments
listen to ‘Stop the sell off of Ireland's forests ’ on Audioboo

Save Ireland's Forests

Category: Environment /
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