NEWS

Green Party Calls for Means-Tested Grant Scheme to Deal with Lead Piping Pollution of Water

We need an immediate survey to find lead piping and grant scheme to deal with the problem   The Green Party are calling for immediate action to deal with the dangerous levels of lead pollution in an estimated 5% of Irish houses. The party’s Environment Spokesperson Malcolm Noonan believes that a national survey will be […]

9th June 2015

Ireland Needs to Wind Down Our Use of Fossil Fuels or The Rest of The World Will Leave Us Behind

G7 commits to decarbonisation as EU energy ministers exclude Ireland from new energy sharing pact. ​ Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said today: “The new Climate Advisory Council due to be announced this week will have to act fast in setting Ireland on a course to do without fossil fuels.”   “The meeting of the G7 […]

8th June 2015

Greens Commend Fiscal Council for their Damning Assessment of Government’s Spring Economic Statement.

Fine Gael and Labour are Returning to the Same Boom and Bust Economic Policies that Led to Financial Crisis   Thursday June 4th 2015: Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan said today.  “We commend the Fiscal Council for publishing their damning assessment of the Government’s Spring economic statement.”   “What the council has done is blow a hole in […]

4th June 2015

Green Party Calls for Oireachtas Finance Committee to Investigate Treatment of IBRC Debtors

Transparency around Debt Terms in the Public Interest Tuesday 2nd June 2015: Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has called on the Oireachtas Finance Committee to hold public hearings into the IBRC’s approach to lending. Reacting to Former IBRC Chairman, Alan Dukes’ comments over the weekend regarding the terms of a loan to Denis O’Brien, Ryan […]

3rd June 2015

Media and Dáil must not be silenced in a democracy

  Taoiseach must comment on emerging constitutional crisis   Friday 29th May 2015, Dublin.   Green Party Justice Spokesperson Cllr Roderic O’Gorman, a lecturer in constitutional law at Dublin City University, has said today that the media and members of the Oireachtas must not be silenced from reporting on issues in the public interest. Cllr O’Gorman […]

29th May 2015

Renua’s approach to reasonable chastisement smacks of populism

    Thursday 28th May 2015, Dublin.   Green Party Justice Spokesperson Cllr Roderic O’Gorman, has said today that Lucinda Creighton’s remarks on the issue of corporal punishment for children smacks of the approach to politics that she and her party promised to dispel. Instead of debating the issue and trying to constructively engage on […]

28th May 2015

Cllr Noonan thanks voters and campaign team

By-election result almost double that of 2011 Monday 25th May 2015, Kilkenny Green Party candidate for the Carlow-Kilkenny by-election Cllr Malcolm Noonan, has today thanked his team and his voters for their support of his campaign. Despite being at a disadvantage in terms of money, manpower and media coverage, Cllr Noonan put in a strong […]

25th May 2015

A day to be proud to be Irish 

  Emphatic support for Yes vote a turning point for LGBT rights   Saturday 23rd May 2015, Dublin.   The Green Party has today enthusiastically welcomed the overwhelming democratic support for Marriage Equality by the Irish people. By any standard the Yes vote is a historic landmark in our nation’s history, and Ireland now stands […]

23rd May 2015

Cllr Duffy wins backing for Architectural Conservation Forum

    Friday 22nd May 2015, Dublin   South Dublin County Council yesterday accepted a motion proposed by Green Party representative Cllr Francis Noel Duffy to establish an Architectural Conservation Forum. The Forum will act as a space for expert voices from across the county to advise and champion South Dublin County Council’s historic built environment. Members will include council officials, sitting councillors who represent the geographical […]

22nd May 2015

Vote Yes for Youth

  Wednesday 20th May 2015, Dublin. The Green Party has today asked voters to support a Yes result in the referendum to lower the age at which someone can run for president. While frequently brushed off as unimportant, the consequences of a No vote could be far reaching and set back the process to realise the rights of young people for […]

20th May 2015