Seamus Healy TD at the launch of @1YIIreland campaign for citizen initiated referendums after #ge16 which WUAG fully support.
We have been advised that the leak (the 5th successive problem in the Clonmel area since last weekend) in the Marlfield area has now been located but unfortunately it is appears to be under a layer of mass concrete.
This will take some time to get through and accordingly the council have extended the end time for this work into tomorrow on the Irish water system. In the meanwhile they have arranged for a tanker to be in the Inislounaght area tonight at about 9 pm.
Focus Ireland Spokesperson said:This is far from rent certainty.
However, we are highly concerned it will fail to stem the constant rising flow of 70 to 80 families becoming homeless in Dublin alone very month. —–The measures are far from a convincing response to the scale of the problems we are facing.
Kelly sought that rent increases be pegged to the cost of living. But Minister Noonan(FG) backed by 25 FG Landlord TDs, and American developers Kennedy Wilson forced him to bend the knee and retreat.
Landlords can only increase the rent every two years now rather than every year as before. Landlords must get three local examples of rents to justify an increase.!!! This will make almost no difference. In a situation where there is no competition between landlords due to shortage of accomodation, landlords can simply raise the rent by double the yearly increase every two years! OR, WORSE STILL, RAISE THE RENT BY A LARGE AMOUNT BEFORE THE LAW COMES IS PASED. The Dáil sat all night to bail out the Banks. But there is no urgency about protecting tenants!
Thanks to all who came and supported our Election Launch in Dalys last night. Brilliant music and craic with The Galtee Mountain Boys and friends. Special mention to two of our legends Tom Stafford and Pauline Burke who played and sang like young ones. Great to see all the old faces and a lot of new ones as well.
What a great turn out this morning for the Centra Walk the World event to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society’s Action Breast Cancer programme. Well done to all the organisers, volunteers and indeed to everyone that took part. It was great to be involved and support this great cause.
Seamus Healy TD with the Irish League of Credit Unions President Brian McCrory, at the launch of the Credit Union proposal for the funding of social housing.
The Credit Union proposal for social housing is a win-win situation for all – families waiting for homes, construction workers, the government and the Credit Union movement itself. It would be an extremely effective way of combatting the housing crisis and would make €8.5bn available to the government to build houses. The government should grab this offer with both hands. Well done to the Credit Unions on such a practical proposal.
