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Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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national / consumer issues Friday February 20, 2015 16:29 by missing our buses already
10% to go in 2016 and then decimation beings in earnest
Just three weeks ago the National Transport Authority (NTA) officially started the tendering for 2016 of initially 10% of Dublin Bus routes and a further 10% of all Bus Eireann routes with most of the routes in Waterford City, and a number of Dublin commuter routes are to be privatised. In the original plan a number of Cork City routes were to go but these will probably happen later. This process has been the culmination of a relentless effort by Fine Gael (FG) in the present government and their predecessors and fellow Neo-Liberal ideologists, Fianna Fáil (FF) in the last government where they have consistently pushed for the break up of both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann so that it can be handed over to their friends in the private sector to run on a profit basis. The NTA is used as a sort of cloak of respectability to give the impression that they will actually be a regulator with teeth of which we know very few regulators have any teeth, with the banking regulator during the Celtic Tiger coming to mind, plus many other examples and the function of NTA is really for propaganda value to convince the middle class. However this whole scheme is about ideology and is NOT about competition but about privatisation. Related Links: Prices rises are on the way for public transport users... | Joe Higgins TD seeks topical issue debate tomorrow in Dáil on Bus Eireann strike | Government to fund private bus companies! - Jobs, wages & services under threat | Rivermeade residents wage war to defend the 40B bus
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national / consumer issues Thursday November 24, 2011 11:12 by Paul Gavan
Fair Hotels - www.fairhotels.ie
Fair Hotels is an initiative of hotel workers employed in Fair Hotels throughout Ireland and trade union representatives. Hotels listed on www.fairhotels.ie were invited to participate in the Fair Hotels campaign by their own staff and their staffs' representatives. Each of the hotels listed on www.fairhotels.ie has agreed to participate. Our objective is to support and promote quality employment in the hotel industry in Ireland.
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national / consumer issues Wednesday April 13, 2011 06:38 by Michael O'Callaghan
• Scientists accuse European Food Safety Authority of corruption and fraud Related Links: FF reverse Irelands position to pro-GM during last days in office. Fianna Fáil Decision on GM food is dangerous and foolhardy | Gathering Momentum: Stop GM! all Island meeting | European Commission exceeding its powers to approve more GM crops: | EU citizens should not be force-fed GM food — Former Chair, European Food Safety Authority | Two Governments call for Ireland to become GM-free zone | Bio Technology and G.M.O.s sponsored by the Irish tax payer | Call for Government's Chief Scientific Adviser to resign | And this scientist advises FG - Irish biotech scientist's fraudlent pro-GM paper slammed by leading experts Irish Greens amazing u-turn on GM feed External Links: www.gmfreeireland.org/
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national / consumer issues Thursday March 12, 2009 12:37 by Andrew
Confrontation at Mountjoy
This evening (Wed 11th March), after the news of the 30 day sentence imposed on 55 year old Shell to Sea protester Maura Harrington filtered through, supporters converged on the gates of Mountjoy prison. By the time the van carrying Maura came into view over 30 supporters were waiting at the prison gates, matched by a similar number of Gardai.
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national / consumer issues Saturday February 28, 2009 09:25 by Workers Solidarity
It's time to fight back, not cut back.
There is no money left in Ireland. At least that’s what you might think after listening to Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny, IBEC and the parade of capitalist economists and pundits who parrot this nonsense. Yes, we are heading into a deep recession but guess who is expected to pay the cost?
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The Government has no problem finding money to bail out bankers and speculators, it’s only when cash is needed for special-needs teachers, the sick, or to improve run-down schools and hospitals that nothing can be found. The attack on pay and pensions is a class struggle by employers and the government against working people.
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