The Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will meet with nominees for Members Designate of the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission at its meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, 22nd May 2013. Committee Chairman David Stanton, TD, said: “Our Committee played an important role in considering the Heads of the Bill which replaced the Equality Authority and the [...]

East Cork Fine Gael TD, David Stanton in welcoming the announcement by Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD of a further €1.5m for the Cobh Landslide Project, hopes that this matter will finally be concluded. The 2013 allocation of €1.5 million bring the total funding for the project to just [...]

Today’s release of €90 million in LEADER funding to local development companies has been welcomed by David Stanton TD. This funding is being made available by the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD, under the Rural Development Programme 2007-1013. South and East Cork Area Development (SECAD) are the LEADER group in [...]

The Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will consider the Value for Money report on the Reserve Defence Force with the Minister for Defence Alan Shatter TD and also with also with representatives from the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association tomorrow, Wednesday 24th April 2013. The Committee will meet with Minister Shatter from 9.30-10.45am and [...]