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Fáilte abhaile Ibrahim.
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD shared Sinn Féin Ireland's video.
The budget announced yesterday is a budget that fails to grasp the urgency of the health and housing crisis. It is a budget that tolerates and normalises mass homelessness of young people and children.
€5million per year has been allocated for a Government Communications Unit. We were told by the Taoiseach that the government's spin machine would be cost neutral. That's the equivalent of 50 resource teachers and 56 SNAs but they clearly feel this money would be better spent improving the government's image.
Today Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil tried to pass their budget off as one that makes sensible use of people's money and eases the burden faced by the public. The real...ity is is that it normalises mass homelessness fails to address the health crisis and lacks any real substance. Sinn Féin will not stand for this. Pearse Doherty saw through the spin and let them know that ordinary people deserve better.
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I gcónaí sásta bualadh isteach chuig Seisiún Eolais Conradh na Gaeilge chun cúrsaí Gaeilge a phlé.
Mar pháirt denár mbuiséad malartach tá maoiniú breise molta againn don Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht. Léiríonn buiséad Sinn Féin go bhfuil bealach eile ann agus gur féidir cothrom na féinne a thabhairt d'achan duine, lucht labhartha na Gaeilge agus muintir na Gaeltachta ina measc.
On Saturday 23rd September Sinn Féin had a special night in the Four Seasons Hotel, Monaghan, when we celebrated the 20 years since my election as TD for Cavan Monaghan in 1997. It is a milestone for us all to be proud of as it has been our collective effort that has been at the root of our success in Cavan Monaghan then and over the years since. I would like to thank all who attended this celebration and all who phoned and who sent kind messages. A special thanks to the Organising Committee. Mo bhuíochas libh go léir. Ar aghaidh linn le chéile.
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD shared Sinn Féin Ireland's post.
Today we publish our Alternative Budget 2018 – On Your Side. You can read it here at www.sinnfein.ie/budget2018
For Sinn Féin this budget is about choosing a s...ide.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have chosen their side – it is the same side they have chosen since the foundation of the state – the side of the elites, the bankers, the property developers, the crony politicians.
With this document, Sinn Féin has also chosen a side, the side of the ordinary people, families, workers, children and public services.
Among our key proposals are:
- Tackling the trolley crisis and caring for older people with 500 more hospital beds, 2 million additional home help hours and 2,500 extra home-care packages.
- 10,000 social homes and 4,500 genuinely affordable homes.
- Halving crèche fees for parents while increasing pay across the sector.
- Increases of €5 for all working age social welfare payments, €4.50 for pensioners and restoring the Transition pension, and €6 for people with disabilities.
- Smaller class sizes from primary school right through to institutes of technology, 950 resource teacher and SNA positions, €500 reduction to third level student fees.
- Recruiting 800 new gardaí and 500 civilian staff to combat the legacy of austerity in our justice system.
- Pay equalisation throughout the public sector.
- Brexit mitigation plan including enterprise supports and a major capital investment programme.
Sinn Féin’s Budget for 2018 would result in direct employment of over 5,000 additional frontline workers with our additional capital investment supporting 16,600 jobs also.
Príomh-mholtaí Shinn Féin:
- Rachfar i ngleic le géarchéim na dtralaithe agus tabharfar aire do dhaoine scothaosta. Cuirfear ar fáil 500 leaba breise in ospidéil, 2 mhilliún uaireanta breise de chúnamh baile agus 2,500 pacáiste breise de chúram baile.
- Beidh 10,000 teach sóisialta agus 4,500 teach is féidir a cheannach ann Laghdófar faoina leath táillí naíolann le haghaidh tuismitheoirí agus beidh méadú ar
phá ar fud na hearnála.
- Beidh méadú de €5 ar gach íocaíocht leasa shóisialaigh aoise oibre, €4.50 le haghaidh pinsinéirí agus glacfar an tIdirphinsean ar ais, agus beidh méadú de €6 do dhaoine míchumasacha.
- Beidh níos lú ranganna ann ó bhunscoileanna ar aghaidh go hinstitiúidí teicneolaíochta, 950 post le haghaidh múinteoirí acmhainne agus SNA, agus laghdú de €500 ar tháillí mic léinn tríú leibhéal.
- Earcófar 800 garda nua agus 500 d’fhoireann shibhialtach le dul i ngleic le hoidhreacht na déine inár gcóras dlí.
- Cothromaíocht i gcúrsaí pá ar fud na hearnála poiblí.
- Plean chun tionchar na Breatimeachta a mhaolú lena n-áirítear tacaí le fiontar agus mórchlár infheistíochta caipitil.
Is é an toradh a bheadh ar Cháinaisnéis Shinn Féin le haghaidh 2018 ná 5,000 oibrí sa bhreis a fhostú sa líne thosaigh agus tacódh infheistíocht bhreise Chaipitil le 16,000 post freisin.
We are asking you to read this document and promote it - in your communities, in your offices and in your homes.
Sinn Féin – On Your Side.
As Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality I was delighted to deliver the opening and closing statements to a Dáil debate on the Justice and Equality Committee’s Report on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis. It was a great honour to have representatives from the Migrant-Rights Centre, from NASC in Cork, from the Syrian community in Ireland and from other global places of origin, and friends from the undocumented in our midst during the course of the debate.
Time now for Government to act on the report's recommendations.
"Last night we gathered in the public gallery, close to 50 of us listening to every single word of the Dáil's first-ever debate on regularisation. We saw a well...-prepared Justice Committee stand united behind their unanimous cross-party recommendation to bring in a regularisation for us undocumented here in Ireland. They give us hope. They make us feel valued. Just like the undocumented Irish in the USA we just want a chance. We stand strong."
Jayson Montenegro, founder member of Justice for the Undocumented (JFU)
#undocIRL #undocumented Gort Resource Centre
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD shared Sinn Féin Ireland's video.
Today our spokesperson on Disability Rights Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD launched our pre-budget proposals on increasing investment in disability rights and equality....Sinn Féin has a vision for a society in which all citizens can fully participate in life without being left behind. Read our full proposal here: http://www.sinnfein.ie/…/Budget2018_Mini-Doc_Disabilities1.…
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As Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for disability rights I was happy to publish our Budget 2018 proposals that prioritise disability rights and inclusion.
We have outlined a range of measures to improve the income supports, health, education, employment, transport and housing of this section of our society. In this budget Sinn Féin has chosen a side and it is the side of ordinary people who have yet to see the economic recovery in their quality of life.
Sinn Féin will prioritise disability rights and equality in our Alternative Budget 2018. Read and share our proposals here www.sinnfein.ie/budget2018
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD shared Sinn Féin Ireland's post.
It is well known that home care delivered in the home is the preferred form of care for most people and their families, particularly for older people.Unfortunately due to a lack of adequate step-down facilities, home care packages and home help, some older people are left stuck in hospitals or forced into residential facilities when they could return home if the correct care was provided. Sinn Féin believe that immediate action is needed to address this issue.
Today we launched our alternative budget proposals for investing in home care and home help. We would increase home help hours by 20% and increase home care packages by 15%. This is the kind of action that is required.
We need strong and innovative solutions to the health crisis. In our Alternative Budget we will significantly invest in home help and home care packages which will alleviate pressure on acute hospital services. Read and share at www.sinnfein.ie/budget2018
With some of our All-Ireland team at Teach Laighean this morning prior to an engagement with Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator.
Back in the Dáil today after a busy summer in the constituency. It was straight back to it with a very useful Justice and Equality Committee engagement with Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, regarding the child protection audit he carried out, commissioned by An Garda Síochána, and that focused on the failings of the Pulse system regarding Section 12 of the Child Care Act 1991. I hope some real changes will come to pass based on Dr. Shannon’s recommendations.
Lots to do in the time ahead.
I addressed a very successful commemoration in Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, on Sunday 30th July marking the 36th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Cavan Monaghan Dáil Deputy Kieran Doherty.
Members of the Doherty family were in attendance including his brothers Michael and Terence and his sister Róisín. Some twenty cyclists had made the journey from Kieran's native Andersonstown in West Belfast over the course of the weekend arriving at Ballyconnell at around 3.30pm. T...his is an annual cycle event in Kieran's memory linking his home area with the constituency that elected him in 1981.
A colour party of 1916 re-eneactors from Belfast also attended.
The event was chaired by Margaret Brady of Ballyconnell. A piper played a lament and Amhrán na bhFiann. Sinn Fein councillors from Cavan, Monaghan and Belfast were in attendance.
Pictured here with the President of the Irish Farmers' Association, Joe Healy and other IFA members from across Cavan and Monaghan at a recent briefing on the review of the Nitrates Directive & the IFA's case for a Weather Aid Package for crop losses.
As of the end of March this year 76,422 mortgages on principal dwelling homes were in arrears and 120,894 principal dwelling house mortgage accounts were restructured. In addition lenders were in possession of 1,740 principal dwelling properties at the end of March 2017.
I spoke last night in favour of the Mortgage Arrears (Family Home) Bill 2017 which seeks to establish a Mortgage Resolution Office which would be empowered to put in place a Mortgage Resolution Order designed to protect the Family Home in the Insolvency process.
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD shared Matt Carthy's photo.
Bígí linn.
This Friday evening we celebrate the awarding of the European Citizens Prize to the Border Communities Against Brexit group. The event takes place in the Garag...e Theatre Monaghan and all are welcome to come along.
This is a perfect opportunity to thank those communities who have been fighting on our behalf and also to send the clear message that we will not accept any border, any barriers or any Brexit in Ireland.
Come along and bring a crowd!