News Archives for September, 2007
29 September, 2007
Sinn Fein Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Michelle Gildernew MP, MLA, has encouraged rural dwellers, equality groups, and rural stakeholders to come along to a series of equality roadshows. Read full article
29 September, 2007
Addressing Minister of State for Health Máire Hoctor during yesterday's sitting of the Seanad Donegal Senator Pearse Doherty called on Minister Harney to meet Assembly Health Minister Michael McGimpsey to progress plans for a satellite radiotherapy unit to service cancer care patients in the North West on a cross border basis. Read full article
29 September, 2007
Sinn Féin Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Michelle Gildernew MP MLA, has met with Éamon Ó Cuív TD, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (DCRGA) at Dromahair in County Leitrim. Read full article
29 September, 2007
Sinn Féin All Ireland spokesperson Willie Clarke MLA has today welcomed the meeting between the Employment and Learning Minister Reg Empey and his counterparts in Leinster House, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin TD, and the Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin TD as a first step to All Ireland Engagement. Read full article
25 September, 2007
Sinn Féin Environment spokesperson, North Antrim MLA Daithí McKay has re-iterated the party's manifesto demand for an Independent all-Ireland Environmental Protection Agency. Read full article
21 September, 2007
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said the current 'grannying' case in Derry underlines the need for real progress in breaking down the obstacles to mobility across the border. Read full article
20 September, 2007
Sinn Féin's Oireachtas team and leadership are meeting today at the Deerpark Hotel in Howth to focus on preparations for the return of the Dáil. Speaking at a meeting of Sinn Féin's Oireachtas team in Howth today Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caolain said: "In the coming months Sinn Féin will be setting out a major plan for party development across the 26 Counties and this will include key campaigns around health, the economy, regional development and community safety. Read full article
20 September, 2007
South Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey has written to An t-Áire Ian Paisley and An tÁire Martin McGuinness as well as An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Dermot Mannion (Chief Executive, Aer Lingus), to highlight his concerns that Aer Lingus staff to be based in Belfast will be employed under less advantageous terms and conditions than their counterparts in the 26 Counties. The South Belfast MLA has urged all concerned to work to ensure that this does not become the case. Read full article
20 September, 2007
Sinn Féin 6 County MEP Bairbre de Brún has said that the party campaign to gather signatures for the European 1Million4Disability Campaign got a huge response in Belfast City Centre today, Thursday 20th September. Read full article
18 September, 2007
Sinn Féin Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy today outlined the role for the North's ports as a key gateway to economic growth across the island of Ireland. Read full article
18 September, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Mitchel McLaughlin (South Antrim) has called on an Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to honour his commitment to representation in the Oireachtas for elected representatives from the six-counties now that he has embraced` all-Ireland politics. Read full article
17 September, 2007
Sinn Fein anti-poverty spokesperson, West Tyrone MLA Claire McGill says that she is encouraged that the Committee set up by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Michelle Gildernew to examine the problem of accessing childcare in rural areas and to make recommendations on how to improve rural childcare provision, will now bring forward its findings in January. Read full article
14 September, 2007
Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty has welcomed today's all-Ireland Ministerial meeting on transport which took place in Enniskillen. Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy chaired the discussions which also involved DUP Minister Arlene Foster and Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey. This is the first in a series of meetings where key decisions on transport planning and road safety will be taken. The next meeting will take place in the south in December and Conor Murphy will host the third meeting in Newry in March 2008. Read full article
14 September, 2007
South Down Assembly Member Willie Clarke is urging the British and Irish Governments to press ahead and make funding available for the construction of a link bridge across Carlingford Lough at Narrow Water on the outskirts of Warrenpoint. Read full article
14 September, 2007
Sinn Féin West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty has welcomed the North South ministerial meeting chaired by Sinn Féin Regional Development Minster Conor Murphy that involved DUP Environment Minister Arlene Foster and the 26 County Transport Minister Noel Dempsey. Read full article
14 September, 2007
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Road Safety, Newry Armagh MLA Cathal Boylan has welcomed today's North South ministerial meeting chaired by Sinn Féin Regional Development Minster Conor Murphy that involved DUP Environment Minister Arlene Foster and the 26 County Transport Minister Noel Dempsey. Read full article
4 September, 2007
West Tyrone Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty says that he has been assured that Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy is determined to fast track the upgrade of the A5 road from Derry to Monaghan to dual carriageway standard. Read full article
3 September, 2007
Sinn Féin Health Spokesperson, Carál Ní Chuilín has said that the development of an all-Ireland approach to the delivery of healthcare will deliver economies of scale and increase capacity and equality of access. Read full article
3 September, 2007
Following the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain in which the EU decided wisely to treat the north as being unlinked to the British food industry, Sinn Féin's MEP Bairbre de Brún has called upon the European Commission to formalise this approach to ensure security for local produce in the future. Read full article
3 September, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney (Foyle) commenting on the continuing attempts by the IFA to block northern residents declaring for the Republic of Ireland soccer team has called on the Irish government to defend rights of Northerners to be Irish. Read full article
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