No Plans to Close Greystones Post Office
I have been onto An Post and received written confirmation that there will be no closure of any post offices in North Wicklow. They have told me that there is a long term plan to group postal sorting staff in Bray and Greystones on one site. This would entail considerable investment by An Post in...
Talking to RTE News in Bray
On Monday, September 17, the people of Bray and Ballyhea joined forces to protest against the payment of unsecured bondholders. RTE’s Six One News came along to see the march and talk to me about the upcoming Dail term and the looming budget. Here’s the clip.
Bray Comes Out to Oppose Bondholder Payout
Earlier in the week a Large crowd came out in Bray to protest against the payment of unsecured bondholders. The people of Bray joined forces with the people of Ballyhea in Cork, who have been protesting since the government started paying unsecured bondholders in March 2011. I was delighted to invite the people of Ballyhea...
Bray Bondholder Protest, Monday September 17 @ 5.30pm
Every man, woman and child in Ireland has paid €13,956 to bail out the banks. Please come and show your opposition to how we’re being sold out next Monday in Bray, alongside the Ballyhea Bondholder protesters, myself and a host of others. Ballyhea is a rural parish in Cork that has been marching in protest...
Rent supplement | Request to Minister to raise levels in north Wicklow towns
Stephen wrote to the Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, to highlight the inconsistencies in rent supplement levels in North Wicklow, and to ask her to raise the levels in Kilcoole, Newtownmountkennedy and Newcastle to the level applying in Bray, Greystones and Delgany. The letter follows below.
Questioning Burton | On rent supplement limits in Wicklow
Stephen asked the Minister for Social Protection: if the review of rent supplement limits in certain Wicklow towns has been concluded; the towns that were included in the review; the evidential findings of the review on the rent levels in each town; the outcome of the review for limits in each town; and if the...
