Blog Archive
Ireland holds the worst record in EU for air pollutant emissions
Posted on September 29, 2010
Emissions ceiling to be exceeded by almost 50% in 2010
Ireland will suffer the indignity of coming in last place in a major EU environmental league table, exceeding Europe’s binding nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions levels by a massive 47% according to a new report by the European Environment Agency. The State will now face penalties as a result of this breech.
Labelling system needed to advise women to minimise alcohol consumption during pregnancy
Posted on September 27, 2010
A labelling system advising women to minimise alcohol consumption during pregnancy should be obligatory, Nessa Childers MEP has said today.
The Irish government will have a chance to make this European law if it proposes such a move at the EU Council of Health Minister’s meeting in December. The meeting will discuss draft EU legislation on food labelling.
Possible conflict of interest cases ignored by Barrosso commission
Posted on September 27, 2010
Only one senior European Commission figure in the last two years has been barred from taking up a top job that may cause a conflict of interest with their former employment at the Commission.
Information secured by Nessa Childers MEP shows that 201 separate requests were made by Commission figures since January 2008 who were seeking permission to take up jobs following their time in the Commission where a potential conflict of interest with their former EU role may arise.
New EU alzheimers initiative must focus on specific needs needs of women
Posted on September 22, 2010
The proposed new EU Initiative on Alzheimers must focus on the specific needs of women. Twice as many women as men in Europe are affected by the illness, according to Nessa Childers MEP with the burden of care often falling on women who neglect their own health, quit jobs and risk poverty as a result of caring for an ill relative.
New EU-wide medicine monitoring system will save lives
Posted on September 21, 2010
With almost 200,000 deaths per year in the EU caused by adverse reactions to prescribed drugs, Nessa Childers has today welcomed moves to bring in a new EU system to monitor the safety of medicines which have already been approved for use by doctors. Adverse reactions, she said, are the fifth most common cause of hospital death in the EU.
The so-called pharmacovigilance legislation sets out the rules and procedures for monitoring the safety profile of medicinal products once they have been authorised and placed on the market.
World Alzheimer's day - 13 years in government and still no national strategy on dementia
Posted on September 20, 2010
The government has more interest in bailing out failed banks than taking a planned and co-ordinated approach to meeting the current and future needs of people with Alzheimer’s and related dementia, Nessa Childers MEP said today.
Patients with rare cancers will benefit from cross border healthcare directive
Posted on September 15, 2010
“Access to cross border healthcare will be considerably easier and more patient-friendly if a proposed new EU Cross Border Healthcare Directive is adopted,” Labour MEP Nessa Childers told a seminar in Brussels today.
Hosting the Second Forum Against Cancer in Europe (FACE) which was addressed by the EU Health Commissioner John Dalli, the Leinster Labour MEP said: “Patients with diseases such as rare cancers, and residents of Border Counties from Louth to Donegal will see considerable benefits from the proposed EU Cross Border Healthcare Directive.”
Childers to hold EU seminar on cancer patients and proposed cross-border healthcare directive
Posted on September 13, 2010
Event: Cross-Border Healthcare – A Necessity for Cancer Patients
Date & Time: Wednesday, 15 September, 12.15 to 3.30pm
Venue: European Parliament, Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Room P1A002
On Wednesday, EU Health & Consumer Affairs Commissioner John Dalli will address a seminar hosted by Labour MEP Nessa Childers where the needs of European cancer patients will be discussed in the context of the EU’s proposed Cross-Border Health Directive.
EU globalisation fund must be more responsive to needs of redundant workers
Posted on September 07, 2010
Speaking in Strasbourg today Nessa Childers said: “The European Globalisation Fund (EGF) should be better co-ordinated and much more responsive in meeting the needs of workers who have lost their jobs as a result of large scale redundancies.
Childers disappointed at Rosslare-Waterford rail line decision
Posted on September 03, 2010
Nessa Childers MEP, who represents the Wexford area in the European Parliament expressed her disappointment at the decision by the National Transport Authority to support Irish Rail’s bid to suspend the Rosslare-Waterford rail link.
Ms. Childers, who has worked with the Mayor of Wexford Cllr. Joe Ryan to explore funding and upgrading avenues with the European Commission for the South-East line explained, “This decision raises serious question marks about how decisions are made in relation to public transport infrastructure in this country. Important lessons need to be learned in this regard in the future.
