A significant spike in Covid-19 cases in Kildare, Laois & Offaly. Please take extra care in implementing all public health advice 😷 Click here for the special advice for people living in Kildare, Laois and Offaly 👉 https://www.gov.ie/…/7b237-special-advice-for-those-living…/
Parents who are receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment will be entitled to claim the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance. The Department of Social Protection is making €153 million available to include parents who have lost their jobs due to Covid-19. The allowance is worth €150 for a child ...
I welcome the great news that The Kildare Town Renewal Plan for €1.75 million in RRDF funding has been approved. This project which is being led by Kildare County Council, will prepare plans for the redesign of the Market Square and for a pedestrian link from the Kildare Village Outlet into the Town Centre. ...
I welcome today’s announcement by Minister Heather Humphreys that many towns such as Portarlington, Athy, Kildare Town, Monasterevin and Lowtown will benefit from the Town and Village Renewal Scheme 2020. These projects will really benefit the local communities and the economy in our constituency of Kildare South ...
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In the Dáil, I spoke in relation to the Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018, which I am very much in favour of. This Bill was introduced two years ago and steered through the Seanad by former Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh and aims to make it easier to prosecute those who knowingly give false evidence. This Bill ...
The Department of Education has issued details of the Roadmap for the Reopening of the Primary and Secondary School System: ✅ All schools will reopen at the end of August ✅ Children below third class will not need to maintain social distancing but all other primary school children will sit in pod bubbles ...
This afternoon in the Dáil, I got the opportunity to raise the following questions with the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, in relation to COVID-19: ✅ How many community testing facilities do we have currently operational in the country? ✅ Are we still using the International Laboratory in Munich, Germany ...
This afternoon in the Dáil, I raised various issues with the Minister for Education and Skills, Norma Foley. ✅ The importance of the school building programme from a post-primary point of view, particularly in Kildare South. Coláiste Íosagáin in Portarlington is creeking at the seams, St. Paul’s in Monasterevin is ...
I got the opportunity to question the Minister for Climate Action, Communications Networks and Transport, Eamon Ryan. I questioned the Minister in relation to: ✅ The ability Ireland has to prevent and protect itself from cyberattack. ✅ The National Cyber Security Strategy and the capacity review that is ...
Families who paid a fee for school transport in 2019/20 will receive a refund for the unused portion following the public health measure of closing schools to prevent the spread of Covid19. Bus Éireann operates the School Transport Scheme on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills, and is managing the refund ...
