Portarlington Façade Enhancement Scheme has been re-launched for 2022. The grant available is 75% of the overall cost of the painting works subject to a maximum grant of €750. The scheme is open to both residential and commercial properties in French Church Street, Market Square and Main Street (part of). The scheme ...
Hi Everyone, I hope you are keeping well. Another busy two weeks across the constituency and in Leinster House. Here are some of the things myself and the team has been up to - Volunteered at the ONE medical clinic for Defence Force veterans in Dublin. Virtually attended the board meeting of Kildare Drug ...
Thanks to Newbridge Community Development for organising a very successful and constructive meeting in Ryston Sports & Social Club this week to resist mooted changes to an approved footpath connecting the Linear Park with the new Belin Woods housing estate in Newbridge. Vital that the conditions attached to ...
Great atmosphere here at the Ronald McDonald House Charities Ireland fundraiser at the Well on St Stephen’s Green. It really is a fantastic charity. I am glad to hear that the 20 bed accommodation facility in Crumlin is to become a larger 52 bed facility just next to the new Children’s Hospital in the coming ...
Hi Everyone, I hope you are keeping well. Just sharing some of the things myself and the team have been up to this week across the constituency and in Leinster House - Attended the Centenary of the handover of the Curragh Camp. Delighted to welcome ONE veterans to Leinster House to discuss veteran mental ...
Glad to support and stand in solidarity with the Medical Scientists who are on strike at Naas General Hospital and other hospitals around the country. They provide an unseen but critical service without which the HSE could simply not function. Early resolution of their legitimate claim at the WRC is now vital. ...
Finland, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland are actual neutral countries whereas Ireland is simply defenceless. The RAF polices our skies, yet Oireachtas consent was neither sought nor received for this. Time for Ireland to clarify its “strategic ambiguity”. Dr Cathal Berry speaking on Sky News in ...
I very much welcome the publication of the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. It is a grim and accurate assessment of the situation in our armed forces because of decades of underinvestment by successive governments. I am very concerned that the Minister intends to wait “four or five months” to produce ...
There is a persistent epidemic of violence against women in this country that needs to be eradicated. A sizeable minority of men in Ireland have unacceptable attitudes and inappropriate behaviours towards women which we must call out and challenge when we see them and educate ourselves on how we can do better as a ...
I very much welcome the announcement this week that St Brigid’s Day will be an annual public holiday from next year on. It’s a wonderful acknowledgement of the work of the Brigidine Sisters as well as for Kildare. It’s great for both men and women in this country to have a worthy role model to look up to. The ...
