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Dáil Issues, Local Issues, Transport Tourism and Sport

I recently asked the Minister why previous expert advice was not being followed in relation to teh proposed BRT route…To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority with regard to BRT proposals is ignoring the expert advice published in October 2012 in the Bus Rapid Transit in Dublin report, which concludes that demand on Swords to city section greatly exceeds the capacity that can be provided by a BRT system.
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Gateway: A Disgrace

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2014
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Dáil Issues, Social Welfare, Worker's Rights

Speaking on a Sinn Fein Private Members motion on the Gateway scheme Clare says that the scheme is a cover up for the erosion of council services which the public sector recruitment embargo has facilitated.

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Dáil Issues, Environment, Oral Questions

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government noting that the €10 million of taxpayers money committed to the pyrite remediation scheme, if he will remediate 200-250 damaged houses; will the position regarding the additional funding required and if he will levy Homebond who walked away from their supposed structural guarantee and whose accounts show a surplus of €25 million.
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International, Prisoners

by Jamison Maeda

As many as 27,000 North Korean prisoners have disappeared from Camp 22, one of North Korea’s notoriously brutal labor camps. According to the director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Camp 22, which is the size of London and at one time held 50,000 prisoners, recently moved several thousand prisoners to other camps. This leaves approximately 27,000 unaccounted for and feared dead from starvation. This information comes from former prisoners, former guards, and satellite photos. 
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