Planning & Development Bill 2009
The Minister for the Environment has made much of his reforming measures of Planning Legislation. I believe he is taking the wrong route with his 2009 Act. It is often said that if the Dutch lived in Ireland they would feed the world, while if the Irish lived in the Netherlands they would drown. Anybody […]
Travel Tax
The Fine Gael party last week introduced a motion under Private Members time to abolish the disasterously counterproductive Travel Tax introduced in the Oct 2008 budget. The Government are to stand by this Tax, making them almost unique in Europe in their disadvantaging the possibility of a meaningful recovery of our important Tourism business. The […]
DNA Database
A Bill to establish an Irish DNA database was recently presented to the Oireachtas, There are elements of this legislation which will impact my work in Juvenile Justice. I plan to submit ammendments to the legislation reflecting the issues that I see as important. I do feel that a distinction should be made in length […]