Archive for February 2010
Meath students impress Childers with knowledge of EU and awareness of political & social issues
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Bronwen Maher
Labour MEP Nessa Childers visited three Meath second-level schools last Friday, coming away ‘enormously impressed’ with the level of knowledge about the workings of the European Union demonstrated by local students.
The Leinster MEP who was elected last June visited Dunshughlin Community College, Beaufort College in Navan and Boyne Community School in Trim where she was accompanied by local Labour public representatives including the current Chair of Meath VEC, Cllr. Tommy Grimes of Kells.
On her visit to Meath, she was also welcomed by the Mayor of Navan, Cllr. Joe Reilly and the Mayor of Kells, Cllr. Brian Curran.
In Kells, Ms. Childers met with representatives of the local Chamber of Commerce and local Labour Party members, all of whom raised the various economic, employment and tourism challenges facing the Kells area.
The Labour MEP said, “I would like to thank the CEO of Meath VEC, the individual school principals, staff and most of all the students who are the lifeblood of any school community for making me so welcome last week.
“I believe it is important that MEPs remain in touch with the local communities who elected them. In doing so, I also see myself as having a role to play in acting as a vehicle for debate and discussion on the EU.
“In a sense, I want to bridge the local, national and European and ensure that young people in Meath and elsewhere in Leinster get the opportunity to have their voices and views heard.
“I was extremely impressed and encouraged at the level of knowledge the young people I met had about the EU and their level of engagement in political and social affairs fills me full of hope for the future.”
2012 Survey of Irish journalists on media ownership and diversity- Nessa Childers MEP
Posted on February 06, 2010 by Bronwen Maher
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Offending member states could be forced to clean up their act by European waste tsar
Posted on February 03, 2010 by Bronwen Maher
Consistent failures by EU Members States, including Ireland, to implement and enforce EU waste law means that the European Commission has now set its sights on forming a powerful new body with the powers to directly inspect and take strong action against waste facilities that do not meet EU standards, Nessa Childers MEP has said.
Labour’s MEP for Ireland East who is a member of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee welcomed the proposed move which was recommended by a European Commission study published this week.
Childers seeks EU investigation into pollution at Kilkenny farm
Posted on February 03, 2010 by Bronwen Maher
The European Parliament Petitions Committee today heard calls from Leinster Labour MEP Nessa Childers for the European Commission to conduct an independent investigation into claims that elevated levels of a dangerous pollutant is poisoning cattle at a farm in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Nessa Childers said: “An independent investigation carried out by the European Commission is the only way we can reach a definitive conclusion to this long-running saga. Dan Brennan’s struggle has gone on for too long and it is high time he and his family received closure on this difficult chapter in their lives.
“I will be visiting the farm shortly to meet with the Brennan family and their advisors in order to assist them to move the process on.
