Tag: Carol Nolan
‘Hate Speech Bill is nothing more than a government gagging order...
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Carol Nolan, has launched a scathing assessment of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill...
‘National Ambulance Service notified of 100 incidents of assaults against staff’...
Information provided by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to the Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Carol Nolan, has revealed that the Service has recorded 100...
‘Ministers must consider providing accommodation to ease nurse and teacher staffing...
Government must consider prioritising a supported accommodation policy for nursing, medical and teaching staff who are being forced to leave their jobs or relocate...
‘Significant funding increase projected for Laois Offaly educational disadvantage fund’ says...
Funding allocated to the Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB) since 2020 from The Reach Fund (formerly the Mitigating Against Educational Disadvantage...
‘Families left devastated as major delay hits Laois housing project’ says...
The negative impact of the budget measure to impose a 10% levy on blocks and concrete products is already being felt according to Independent...
‘Minister confirms cost of report on Ireland’s energy security has reached...
Environment Minister Eamon Ryan has confirmed that the report on the review of Ireland’s energy security will be published before the end of 2022.
Minister...
‘Minister confirms ploughing and tilling ban being considered on carbon rich...
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed that proposals are being examined which may include recommending a ban on ploughing and...
‘Urgent Government intervention required to ensure nursing homes remain open’ says...
A local TD says there is now 'a clear and present threat to the ongoing viability of critically important nursing home facilities'.
Independent TD for...
Call for more rural pick up routes for school buses as...
Independent TD for Laois Offaly, Carol Nolan, has said that her offices are dealing with an increasing number of families who say their children...
‘Elderly people are waiting years for their first hearing aids’ says...
Elderly residents of Laois and Offaly are being shut out from social and family participation and are having their quality of life dramatically reduced...
‘Renewed focus on community first responders needed as ambulance service faces...
A local TD has called on the Minister for Health and the National Ambulance Service to place a renewed focus on supporting schemes that...
‘Farm incomes are not poker chips that Government parties can gamble...
Government parties are treating the agri-sector and farm incomes as if they were poker chips on the gambling table, a local TD has said.
Independent...
‘Government must guarantee funding to support dementia Day Care and Home...
A Local TD has called on the government to guarantee a funding package of €19 million to support infrastructure and community supports that have...
Local TD calls on government to ‘consider removing means test conditions...
A local Independent TD fully supports Family Carers Ireland (FCI) in its call for a complete overhaul of the Carer’s Allowance scheme which would...
Overdue report on security of Ireland’s gas and electricity systems due...
A report on Ireland’s energy security conducted by London based consultancy firm CEPA is due for delivery in the third quarter of this year.
So...
‘Proposed increase in student earnings cap is a sensible and welcome...
A proposal to increase the holiday earnings income disregard that third level students can earn under the Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) scheme is...
‘Minister confirms turbary rights to bog-land could be removed or delimited...
The Agriculture Minister has confirmed that while the exercise of turbary rights by persons in possession of a folio number for bog plots are...
‘Fear factor’ preventing farmers and producers from making complaints over ‘unfair...
The Unfair Trading Practice’s (UTP) Enforcement Authority has said that while the number of complaints it has received to date is relatively low, this...
Vacant Special Education Needs Organiser position for Laois-Offaly to be filled...
The National Council for Special Education has confirmed to Independent TD Carol Nolan that the vacant position of Special Education Needs Organiser for Laois-Offaly...
Local TD calls for ‘consumers and farmers to be protected from...
While consumers must be protected from soaring rises in food prices, efforts must also be doubled to ensure that farmers and food producers are...
Calls for a passport office to open in the midlands to...
Government must consider setting up a passport processing office in and for the midlands region.
That was the position put forward by Independent TD for...
‘Government response to Post Office crisis will meet with a lukewarm...
There is 'widespread suspicion' around the 'nature and intent' of Government proposals to support the Post Office network.
So says Independent TD for Laois Offaly...
‘How much longer can the private forestry sector survive this level...
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that he will not 'be happy' until he sees a greater level of plantation and afforestation taking place within...
Local TD voices ‘disappointment’ as changes to student income earning limit...
There is to be no change to the €4,500 limit on student earnings in order to qualify for the SUSI Grant.
So says local TD...
‘Micro-generation customers must wait until at least July to receive payment...
Environment Minister Eamon Ryan has confirmed that The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) is not setting a date or deadline for the timing...
‘Government must address parent’s concerns around the impact of the refugee...
There is concern among parents and within schools after it was confirmed that schools could be asked to accommodate more than 40,000 new students...
‘Major staff vacancy levels identified in Laois Children’s Disability Networks’ says...
HSE services that deliver high levels of complex care to children and young adults with a disability in Laois are experiencing a significant staff...
‘Mounting anger’ as micro-generation solar panels support scheme ‘still not operational’
There is mounting anger among farmers, families and landowners who invested in Micro-generation solar panels in the expectation that they would be able to...
Local TD calls for Children’s Allowance to be extended to all...
Government must give now serious consideration to extending receipt of the Children’s Allowance to parents and guardians of full-time students in second level education...
‘Disbelief and anger’ as the ‘sale and marketing of turf is...
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly Carol Nolan has said there is a sense of disbelief and anger within rural communities following confirmation that the sale...