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EU DELEGATES WILL be able to avail of free Dublin Bikes during Ireland’s presidency of the EU in 2013, as part of cost-saving and sustainability measures.
All delegates to official Presidency events in Dublin will receive a Dublin Bikes card, which is to encourage them to use the bikes.
As Dublin Castle is the venue for the vast majority of Presidency events and delegates’ accommodation is also city-centre based, the organisers said this would be an ideal mode of transport.
Sustainability
The bikes are just one element of a sustainability drive within the Presidency.
Around 1600 meetings will take place during Ireland’s presidency of the EU, with 180 of those taking place in Ireland, and approximately 150,00 delegates will visit the country.
The cost of the 2004 Irish presidency was €110m, but the cost of the 2013 presidency is estimated to be €60 million, indicating the organisers have scaled back significantly.
They said that they are using state-owned locations for primary venues, buses will be the primary transport, Dublin Castle will be the Presidency headquarters, and sponsorship has been sought for some parts of the programme. All of these have helped to save money overall.
The presidency will only pay for hotel rooms for Heads of Delegation for the 11 informal ministerial meetings, and a handful of high-level events.
There will also be a ban on printing large volume handbooks or the programme, with all documents available online, plus instead of bottled water, tap water will be used at meetings.
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Why didn’t they test it on themselves?
@Derek o keeffe: Because like most clinical trials this one was carried out on mice to gauge reactions/side effects..
Without such trials the average human life expectancy would still be somewhere between 35/55 and we wouldn’t have the vast majority of the current life saving Cancer and AIDS treatments to mention just two…
@Derek o keeffe: a better question is why they didn’t test it on you.
Cannabis works on pain as well oh thats right big pharmaceuticals cant profit off that though.Cannabis is one of the biggest break throughs in medicine but our media seem to ignore it.
Can you “milk” the fish for venom, package it and sell it to people? Asking for a friend.
‘The Fang Blennies’….weren’t they a pop group back in the 80′s?
Is the venom addictive like current opioids? If so what’s the big deal?
Stooooooory bud!!! Ya got any of them fishes the ones with da gear man for me girlfriend like it’s her beerday tomorra!! On tick of course bud scratcher end of the week bud… (over heard in pet shop in Dublin city centre )
What’s the point. Patients still can’t get the medicinal cannabis that could help them.
It’s not IF we lose the Great Barrier Reef it’s WHEN. Better stock up on tanks pumps and protein skimmers all of which will require a lot of fossil fuel generated electricity to run if we want to keep the blenny inter alia.
Mind it’s probably moot given the mindless approach of governments and society to date towards natural painkillers and cancer killing substances. If it actually delivers a useful result he blenny will probably be banned by law.
Do they feel pain themselves I wonder?
I foresee growth in aquarium stockist shops
Were the mice drugged or did they just drown?
Does this come in the form of fish fingers?
Big Bryan Fry experimenting with Small Blenny Fry. The outcome a numbing experience.
You can get bags of it down the quays already
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The happiest fish going lol.
Brilliant, another drug all the social degenerates can get addicted to once it gets licensed!!!
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