Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has today welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn that will see a much fairer approach being adopted to calculating fees for some migrant students. Under these proposals, non-EEA students who acquire EEA citizenship during the course of their studies will now be treated the same as […]
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FEE CHANGE FOR MIGRANT STUDENTS A KEY STEP FOR EQUALITY – Ó RÍORDÁIN
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Ó RÍORDÁIN CONFIRMS €3 MILLION FOR DARNDALE ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGY FOR CHILDREN
Local Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has today welcomed the allocation of €3 million in funding for the Northside Partnership’s Preparing for Life Programme in Darndale, Priorswood and parts of Kilmore. “I am really pleased about today’s announcement as I have been pushing for this funding to be allocated for some time and I would […]
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Message to tax traitors: Tax is duty, not charity – Ó Ríordáin
Labour TD and member of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has reacted strongly to the proposal by the Forum on Philanthropy to adopt what he calls a ‘softly-softly’ approach to tax exiles. “I am in full agreement with my colleagues Gerard Nash and Kevin Humphries in this regard – that the suggestion that […]
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