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Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has challenged the Government to be more transparent in relation to its water metering programme with Irish Water   Senator Ó Domhnaill raised the issue with the Environment Minister on the floor of Seanad Éireann during an adjournment debate last night (Monday 22nd July). Senator Ó Domhnaill said; “Minister [...]

Urgent Policy Actions to Safeguard and Enhance Commonage Lands Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Agriculture, Senator Brian Ó Domhanill, has called on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in conjunction with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to fully implement all of the recommendations contained in the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food [...]

Donegal FG, Sinn Féin and Independent TD’s vote for abortion despite Pro-Life election promise.   Donegal Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has slammed the FG/Labour Government for pushing the abortion bill through the Dáil and into the Seanad in an unprecedented manner despite the fact that the justification for the Bill is now in [...]

Calls on Health Minister to lift recruitment ban for key frontline posts   Donegal Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has called on the Minister for Health James Reilly to immediately address the staffing crisis at community hospitals in Donegal.   Raising the matter with Minister Reilly in the Seanad last week, Senator Ó Domhnaill said patients [...]

Fine Gael and Labour have blocked attempts by Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill to hold an emergency debate on the future of two special needs pre-schools in Donegal. Senator Ó Domhnaill called for the Health Minister James Reilly to come before the Seanad to discuss the threatened closure of St Agnes Special Needs Pre-School in Donegal [...]

Fianna Fáil Senator, Brian Ó Domhnaill, says the Government’s budget policy of taxing Maternity Benefit will hit 46,000 mothers throughout the Country this week. Senator Ó Domhnaill commented: “One of the most senseless cuts the Government introduced in their regressive budget was the taxing of Maternity Benefit for 46,000 women all over the country, including [...]

The 10% cut to Special Needs Assistants will still go ahead in September despite today’s u-turn by the Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn.   Fianna Fáil has welcomed Minister Quinn’s late realisation that he made a mistake in signing off an additional 12% cut in resource teaching hours. But the party’s has expressed concern that [...]

Minister must initiate grant system to fund scheme Fianna Fáil Senator, Brian Ó Domhnaill, has called on the Minister for the Marine, Simon Coveney, to immediately provide grant funding for personal location beacons which help trace fisherman lost at sea. Senator Ó Domhnaill commented: “The terrible fishing tragedy that occurred in Tramore last week highlighted [...]

Donegal Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has called on Donegal County Council and the Department of Transport to immediately proceed with a full replacement of the Mullantyboyle Bridge in Glenties   Senator Ó Domhnaill said, “I have raised this issue a number of times on behalf of local people who are frustrated at the lack of [...]

Donegal Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has called on the government to introduce legislation to govern the development of large scale Industrial Wind Farms.   The Donegal Senator and Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin TD have this week highlighted the anxiety and concerns expressed by local communities across the country.   Senator Ó Domhnaill [...]