Alex White TD pleased that Mount Carmel Hospital will provide over 100 Community Hospital beds
I welcome the news this week that when fully redeveloped Mount Carmel Hospital will provide over 100 community hospital beds. The information came in a letter from HSE Director General, Tony O’Brien, after I requested clarification on plans for the hospital’s development.
Getting more people back to work is a top priority for 2015. This infographic will give you a snapshot on the progress we made nationally in 2014. Locally, I was pleased to see a 17.3% drop in the number of under-25s on the live register at Nutgrove Social Welfare Office in the past year.
Minister for Communications, Alex White T.D., visited the Charlie Hebdo office on Monday, January 12th in Paris, where he left a bouquet of 17 white roses in memory of the people killed in terrorist attacks in the city last week.
I was delighted to meet with local, young scientists who participated in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Students from Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh, Loreto Beaufort, Jesus and Mary College Our Lady’s Grove and Rockbrook Park School were exhibiting their innovative research at the RDS last week. I want to congratulate the students for their fantastic hard work, creativity and ingenuity. They are incredibly hard-working and I wish them every success into the future.
I attended a Charlie Hebdo remembrance ceremony at Dublin Castle on Saturday which was organised by the NUJ.
Minister for Communications Alex White, TD, today (Monday) awarded €540,000 to twenty-nine projects to help 12,000 people develop basic internet skills. The funding will bring to 114,000 the number of ‘non-liners’ – people who don’t use the internet – who have been helped by the BenefIT Programme since it was established in 2008.
I welcome the confirmation by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council that they have purchased Fernhill Estate for €4.25m. It is intended that Fernhill Estate will be developed as a public park.
Addressing the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, yesterday (Wednesday), Minister for Energy Alex White, TD, said Ireland was accelerating its actions to combat climate change. He said Ireland was playing an active part in meeting collective EU targets and global aspirations for reduced carbon emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy, afforestation, improved agricultural practices, and financial support for developing countries.
This week I’m representing Ireland at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru. Yesterday I attended the opening address by Ban Ki-Moon. Today, I will address the conference.
