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If you genuinely believe that excess profits are being made in the PBSA market I am surprised the Students’ Union has not entered the market itself and provided lower-cost student accommodation for its members.
Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan came under fire to this comment, made in response to a students’ union president objecting to student accommodation being temporarily used for tourism.
The advice will be given as soon as we have it ready to go.
NIAC chair Karina Butler on when new advice on a Covid booster campaign might be published.
Fundamentally we’re on a knife-edge.
Professor Philip Nolan on the sudden change in the trajectory of Covid in the past week.
I am hugely disappointed that the Executive and Department of Health are continuing to seem to wilfully neglect the welfare and rights of women and girls in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland secretary of state Brandon Lewis after a High Court judge ruled that he failed to comply with his duties by not expeditiously ensuring provision for full abortion services for women in the region.
Maybe someday we’ll get our chance, and that somebody will come forward and help us. Any piece of no matter how small, it’s very important. That’s all we want: for someone not to feel afraid to come forward after nearly 26 years now. We would ask them not to be afraid, they won’t be judged and it will be dealt with in a very sensitive matter.
The sister of Jo Jo Dullard, Kathleen Bergin, speaking after gardaí investigating the disappearance of a number of women in Leinster during the 1990s launched a major search operation.
I genuinely believe the ministers are trolling us.
Sinn Féin TD Mairead Farrell speaking in the Dáil on the government’s attempts to tackle the cost of living.
Future generations will not tolerate inaction from the leaders of today. But, by future generations, I do not just mean children yet to be born. Children, teenagers, and the younger adults of today demand action. They deserve action. They are clear in their arguments and the science is unambiguous: the world is burning, and the only chance we have to control those fires is through coherent and effective policies.
Part of Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe’s Budget 2022 speech, explaining why carbon taxation measures were introduced.
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How about extending Breast and Bowel Screening Tests to over 70′s? That would be a real benefit and an end to age discrimination in those areas.
That’s nothing new. Most old age pensioners bring the partner any, I don’t feel anyone would stop
them, give it a rest, Bord failte talk
@Phillip Smyth: yes, but this measure extends it from spouse, to friend or loved one
@Phillip Smyth: I was stopped at Carlow Railway station from bringing my sister as a companion and she is even older than me.
@Kevin Kerr: this happening anyhow has been years it’s an epidemic lol.
@Geraldine Mahon: I would have kicked up a major fuss, Shame on them.
Address the huge cost of attending hospital appointments, and having to use and pay for the car parks.
The HSE have contracted the car park facilities out so that they don’t have to deal directly with the clients.
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