Archive for December 2014 | Monthly archive page
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 22 October 2014 if she will provide Dail Éireann with an update on whether contact has been made between her Department, and Fingal County Council and the landowners of Drumanagh Promontory, with a view to securing this protected monument in public ownership.
– Clare Daly.
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To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will liaise with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to initiate an investigation into the sale of commercial property in 2013/14 by the Trustees of the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme; and the implications for the pensions of the members of the scheme. – Clare Daly.
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Press Release:
Shannonwatch, 11 Dec 2014:
Shannonwatch are appalled at the shocking revelations about CIA torture of detainees in the US Senate intelligence committee report released on Tuesday Dec 9th. Details of the methods used, the extent of the torture and the scale of lies and deceit from a government agency are even worse than was already known. Ireland’s complicity has already been documented by other reports, but given this new information it is now well past time for a full investigation of the role played by Shannon in the brutal and illegal interrogation undertaken by the CIA.
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The following statement is from the Retired Aviation Staff Association regarding the shameful abandonment of Aer Lingus and DAA pensioners by the companies and the government parties.
AER LINGUS SHAREHOLDERS VOTED TO CUT PENSIONERS INCOMES BY SIX WEEKS FROM JANUARY 2015.
Aviation pensioners, whose average age is 73 years, will see their income cut by the equivalent of six weeks per year in 1 January 2015 following an Aer Lingus AGM today.
Institution shareholders, asset managers of pension funds, Government and shareholders voted at an EGM of Aer Lingus shareholders to cut pensioners pensions.
The EGM meeting voted in favour of paying compensation to non pensioners, active and deferred members, to mitigate against some of their potential loss in the future.
and no compensation to pensioners for their actual losses.
Following a meeting of pensioners at the Airport where they heard the Retired Staff Association’s actuary outline all the risks for them in these proposals pensioners staged a protest outside the Airport Radisson Hotel where the EGM was being held.
Aer Lingus shareholders were handed leaflets as they entered the hotel and a letter of protest was given to the Aer Lingus Chairman, Mr Colm Barrington.
RASA has stated that the fight continues and has set up a Pension Fighting Fund and requesting donations of €100.
Issued by RASA, Dec 10 2014
Contact details: Paddy Kilduff – 086 820 7465 – paddykilduff@ymail.com