LABOUR TD SEÁN KENNY WELCOMES WEEK END PROPOSALS FOR PRIORY HALL RESOLUTION
Posted on April 24, 2012 11:46 AM
Dublin North East Labour TD Seán Kenny today welcomed the unanimous agreement by the Priory Hall residents, at a specially convened meeting on Sunday, to participate in the resolution process agreed in the Supreme Court on Friday last. "I welcome this long overdue positive initiative by Dublin City Council to allow a resolution process involving the lending institutions/banks/building societies, the notice parties, Dublin City Council and any other party relevant to the process." "For the last six months the Priory Hall residents have been being forced to battle with Dublin City Council, government, banks and the developer in their attempts...
YES TO STABILITY TREATY WILL HELP US MOVE FROM MISTAKES OF THE PAST
Posted on April 19, 2012 11:52 PM
This Treaty is about ensuring long-term stability and economic recovery, which will lead to growth and employment This Treaty is also about ensuring confidence abroad and maintaining and enhancing the influence that the Government has been rebuilding with investors, job-creators and with Europe. I want to take this opportunity to welcome the announcement yesterday of an additional 280 jobs in the Pharmaceutical industry in Baldoyle in my Dublin North East constituency. For job-creating investment, from which so many announcements have come in recent months, these decisions have come about thanks to the renewed political and economic stability and above all...
LABOUR TD KENNY WELCOMES BALDOYLE PHARMACEUTICAL JOBS BOOST
Posted on April 18, 2012 4:23 PM
Labour Party TD for Dublin North East, Seán Kenny has welcomed the announcement that 280 new jobs will be created by the pharmaceutical manufacturer Mylan in Dublin North East. Mr Kenny said the hi-tech jobs, which will be based in Gerard Laboratories, in Baldoyle, were a welcome boost to Dublin North East and an extremely positive development for the life sciences sector in Ireland. "Today's announcement of 280 new jobs is great news for Baldoyle and for Dublin. It is a further sign that Ireland is attractive as a location for investment. Mylan, who is responsible for this investment, is...
KENNY WELCOMES BADLY NEEDED N32 IMPROVEMENTS
Posted on April 18, 2012 3:36 PM
Dublin North East Labour TD Seán Kenny has welcomed the announcement by the Department of Transport in relation to the investment of €60,000 for the carrying out of a road safety audit on the road markings along the N32 and a redesign of the road lane layouts in consultation with the NRA and the implementation of the revised road layout through new road markings. "I have been asking the Minister Alan Kelly about the N32 for some time now and I am delighted that funding has now been released to enable work on the road markings here to take place....
KENNY WELCOMES FAIRVIEW / AMIENS STREET CYCLE SCHEME
Posted on April 18, 2012 3:34 PM
Labour TD Seán Kenny has welcomed the announcement of the Fairview to Amiens St Cycle Scheme. The scheme is part of the the high quality Sutton to Sandycove cycle route to connect the northside and southside of Dublin Bay. "€60,000 will be invested in this part of the Sutton to Sandycove cycle scheme. It will start north of Fairview park and continue to Amiens Street. The section of the route that crosses Newcomen Bridge will be developed as separate project." "The Sutton to Sandycove scheme is a fantastic project and allows Dublin citizens and tourists to walk or cycle along...
KENNY WELCOMES LOCAL FOOTPATH WORKS IN SUTTON & KINSEALY
Posted on April 18, 2012 12:44 PM
Dublin North East Labour TD Seán Kenny has welcomed the announcements that work will be undertaken on footpath works in Kinsealy and Sutton. "€25,000 is being spent on the completion of the footpath at Kinsealy Church. This work involves the planning of the design and the construction of the footpath, which will form the missing part of the local footpath network." "In Sutton, there will be €30,000 worth of improvements made to at the Church Road and Burrow Road school. The work involves the design and construction of footpath upgrade to improve access to school." "I have been in discussions...
LABOUR TD KENNY WELCOMES ENDING OF DETENTION IN ST PATRICKS INSTITUTUION
Posted on April 3, 2012 12:54 PM
Dublin North East Labour TD and member of the Oireachtas Justice Committee, Sean Kenny has welcomed as "historic", the announcement by Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald, that capital funding of approx. €50m is to be made available for the building of the first phase of the National Children Detention Facility at Oberstown in Lusk, and that that the practice of imprisonment of children in Ireland will cease within two years. IPRT further welcomed the announcement that from 1st May 2012, boys aged 16 will no longer be detained in St Patrick's Institution. "Over the past 25 years, successive governments have...
DUBLIN LABOUR TD KENNY CALLS ON GREYHOUND TO HALT THEIR MIDNIGHT HOUR BIN COLLECTIONS
Posted on April 2, 2012 12:54 PM
Dublin North East Labour TD, Seán Kenny, today called on the household waste collector, Greyhound, to cease their practice of collecting household bins at midnight. "This week I received several queries from Greyhound customers in the Raheny area who complained that they were alarmed when woken between midnight and 1.30am by the sound of Greyhound trucks collecting brown bins from outside their homes. This is an unearthly hour to have heavy trucks trundling through housing estates creating noise and needless alarm. Some residents told me that when they were awoken by the truck noise they feared that their home was...
