Fri, Feb 19, 2021 Read in 3 minutes The Green Party has this week launched its vision for Dublin’s Moore Street Area. Neasa and her Green Party colleagues have called for an Architectural Conservation Area to be prepared for Moore Street and its surroundings, and for mixed-use new development that is in sympathy with the […]
Sat, Jan 1, 2022 Read in 1 minutes Why is the Working Family Payment not available to the self-employed? To qualify for Working Family Payment, a person must be engaged in full time paid employment as an employee. They must also have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them or is supported […]
Fri, Jul 3, 2020 Read in 1 minutes Dublin City Council is running a public survey on the future of Street Trading in Moore Street based on the latest report of the Moore Street Advisory Group. It’s a simple survey to gauge the public’s views on the vision for future Street trading in Moore Street. […]
Fri, Dec 10, 2021 Read in 2 minutes This week the Minister for Health finally commenced the Review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. The review will seek to capture information on the effectiveness and operation of the Act from the perspective of women who access the service, health professionals who […]
Tue, Jul 7, 2020 Read in 1 minutes There is a new housing development planned for the old Smurfit site on Botanic Road. We are holding an online public meeting on 20th July at 7pm to walk though the proposal and to discuss any observations people might have with a view to including those observations […]
Tue, Nov 17, 2020 Read in 1 minutes Today Green Party Spokesperson for Finance Neasa Hourigan TD and Green Party Spokesperson for Social Protection Marc Ó Cathasaigh launched the Green Party’s position paper on Wellbeing Indicators. GDP is not a way to measure the wellbeing and the quality of life of Irish Citizens. Having established […]
Tue, Oct 11, 2022 Read in 1 minutes I was delighted to attend a sod-turning event for a new shared kitchen facility at the SPADE Enterprise Centre in Nth King Street. Starting a food business is tough and a shared kitchen facility will allow new food businesses to start without large capital outlays. I was […]
Thu, Mar 4, 2021 Read in 5 minutes Neasa spoke today on the Second Stage of the Land Development Agency Bill 2021 The Green Party agrees with the principle of active land management, and of activating under-used sites and identifying private lands that could be of benefit to projects for renewal of particular areas or […]
Fri, Jun 28, 2024 Read in 3 minutes A planning application has been made at the former Andersons Creperie for a change of use from coffee shop/creperie to funeral home (chapel of rest) including a smaller coffee shop. Works undertaken to convert premises from a café to a funeral home (Chapel of Rest) Dublin City […]
Fri, Feb 19, 2021 Read in 2 minutes As Ulster Bank announces it is to withdraw from the Republic of Ireland over the next few years, the requirement for a public bank has never been more keenly felt by ordinary banking customers. The programme for government sets out a number of ways in which community […]
Fri, Sep 9, 2022 Read in 1 minutes In the run up to Budget 2023, I am going to do some 60 second videos unpacking some of the jargon around Budgets, so that you know what you are looking at when you see the allocations. One of the things we are going to start with […]
Thu, Apr 1, 2021 Read in 4 minutes Neasa spoke in the Dáil on the RTÉ Prime Time Investigates findings that the Department of Health has been secretly maintaining dossiers on children with autism who were involved in legal actions against the State. Transcript: Minister, I would like to echo what I think a lot […]
Thu, Apr 9, 2020 Read in 2 minutes Green Party MEPs Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O’Sullivan, along with the Party’s Finance spokesperson Neasa Hourigan TD, today called on the Eurogroup and the Irish government to take decisive action and agree a pathway for the issuing of Eurobonds without further delay. Speaking today, Green MEP for […]
Fri, Apr 26, 2019 Read in 1 minutes Neasa spoke to Catherine Gallagher from Dublin City FM about why she is running in the Local Elections, what her priorities are and what she is doing about those priorities right now. There is a recording of Neasa’s interview with Catherine Gallagher from Dublin City FM available […]
