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20th January 2020 Tallaght Stone Centre SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL headstones crafted for all cemeteries Tel: (01) 462 6200 Fax: (01) 462 6209 SECRETARIES email: [email protected] web: tallaghtstonecentre.ie Upcoming election of call for parents or school breaks. conditions of these candidate for Dublin and students. Without “This is compounded workers rests with South West, Seán them, our schools by the inequality that schools through the Crowe, has reiterated would simply not persists between them capitation grants they his support for function. “I want to and the few hundred receive, and not his school secretaries in reiterate that their school secretaries Department. their ‘Support Our industrial action and who are paid directly Secretaries’ campaign campaign for respect by the Department of “As the Government for fair treatment, and fair conditions for Education with starting knows well, schools respect and improved all school secretaries salaries of €24,000.” rely on the capitation Our Comprehensive Services Include: working conditions. has the full support of grant to cover ♦ headstones ♦ inscriptions ♦ renovations ♦ chippings myself and my party. Crowe continued: running costs such ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Seán Crowe of Sinn “Minister Joe McHugh as heating, lighting, re-lettering counter tops house names granite estate signs Fein said: “School “At its heart, this was made aware of insurance costs, and secretaries are dispute centres on the their job insecurity teaching materials. Belgard Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. invaluable members fact that the majority and this two-tier pay “Secretaries have low of our schools and of school secretaries, structure in May of last pay, no holiday pay, no our communities, over three thousand, year and has dragged sick pay, no real job often working above earn as little as his heels in reaching security, certainly no and beyond their job €13,000 a year with an agreement. “The occupational pensions, requirements. “They irregular, short-term Minister will claim that and no access to public work on the front line contracts and no pay specific responsibility service salary scales. and are the first port during summer holidays for the pay and A Sinn Féin government LY Garden will end this unfair system. “The public CHINESE TAKEAWAY service should be a leader in providing fair pay and conditions for employees, but school secretaries have clearly been left far behind when it comes to pay and working conditions”. ALLAGHT SEE OUR T : UNIT 6, ST. DOMINIC’S SHOPPING CENTRE, TALLAGHT, D24 EDUCATION EL FEATURE T 01 4590820 / 01 4590850 ON PAGES BALLYBODEN: 22 - 27 WHITECHURCH, BALLYBODEN, DUBLIN 16 TEL 01 4061002 OPENING HOURS: 5PM - 12AM MIDNIGHT - 7 DAYS DELIVERY HOURS: 5PM - 11.30PM - 7 DAYS 2 TALLAGHT DISAPPOINTS IN IBAL 2019 LITTER RANKINGS The final litter survey for on behalf of IBAL, made Village and Sean Walsh manufacturers to cover proper disposal”. NoButts. companies sharing a belief 2019 Irish Business Against the following comments Memorial Park.” Sweet the cost of cigarette butt ie is turning butts into that continued economic Litter (IBAL) has shown in relation to the Tallaght wrappers, chewing gum collection. cellulose acetate for re- prosperity - notably in the Tallaght has tumbled area; “After making big and cigarette butts remain “Alongside regulation, we use in sunglasses and areas of tourism, food and down the rankings. The strides over the last number the most common forms would like to see active other products. Set up in direct foreign investment past decade has brought of years in the League it was of litter. From 2021, an EU recycling of butts, which 1996, Irish Business Against - is contingent on a clean, a 13% reduction in litter disappointing to see two directive will force tobacco would encourage their Litter is an alliance of litter-free environment. levels in city centres, litter blackspots and one while litter in towns has seriously littered site take remained constant over the Tallaght down the rankings. 2,927 DRIVERS CLAMPED AT LUAS RED COW PARK & RIDE same period. “We’ve seen Investigation needed into to the difficulties people correct car registration payment. These machines the fruits of the greater Pedestrian Access to Luas Red Cow Park and were having with the ticket numbers but is accepting are not fit for purpose. attention given to keeping Cheeverstown Road, from Ride with approx. 10 cars machines the Red Cow Luas full payment. People are paying, and it is our city centres clean,” Kilmartin Drive has suffered clamped per day. Park & Ride and to find unfair to cause this fine and explains Conor Horgan of from prolonged and their cars clamped at the On return to their cars inconvenience because of IBAL, “to the point where serious abuse and neglect. John Curran T.D. has called end of their working day however a clamp has been faulty machines. The TII and they are now almost as Courthouse Square Car on Transport Infrastructure causing a huge cost and applied with the cost of Luas must come together clean as our towns. In Park wasn’t just casually Ireland to carry out an inconvenience. “People €80 for clamp removal. immediately to come up 2019, for the first time, littered but a variety of investigation into the ticket have complained that the “This is unfair, and people with a solution at Red Cow all were deemed clean.” items had been discarded, machines and payment machines appear to not be have reported to me that Park & Ride”, concluded “Unfortunately, the gap in including pallets and bags system at Luas Red Cow allowing them to input their they have shown proof of Deputy Curran. cleanliness between these of rubbish. However, half Park and Ride facility. neglected areas and the of the sites surveyed did Deputy Curran was speaking high-profile city centres get the top litter grade - after receiving figures from is not closing.” An Taisce, some worth noting were the the TII in relation to the Councillor Carly who conduct the surveys Tallaght Luas Stop, Tallaght number of drivers that have been clamped at the facility Published by: Newsgroup, Unit 3 Floor 2 St. Dominics Shopping Centre, St. Dominics Road, Tallaght, Dublin, D24 in the space of one year, he HK49. said; “From 1 January 2019 Bailey Titles: Tallaght News, Clondalkin News, Lucan News and to 3 November 2019, 2,927 Your General Election Candidate Rathcoole & Saggart News drivers were clamped at Distributed by: Local Post Co. Printed by: Meath Chronicle the facility. 1,218 drivers appealed and 525 of these Contact Details: Website www.newsgroup.ie Email: [email protected] drivers were successful in their appeal. Founder: John Russell Vote Advertising: Anthony Russell [email protected] Administration: Sarah Brooks [email protected] “I had received many calls to my constituency office NO.1 in Clondalkin in relation MENTION NEWSGROUP FOR A DISCOUNT 3 4 RIGHT TO REPLY FOR HELLFIRE CAMPAIGNERS Local Councillor Alan Edge in relation to the proposed ‘It’s a fallacy to think that without resorting to such a more detailed surveys and wildlife and expressed the has called for a right to reply Dublin Mountain Visitor you need a €15 million large-scale development. monitoring of biodiversity fervent hope that the right for the Save the Hellfire Centre had now been development in order to in the surrounding area. to reply would be given to campaigners after South received. enjoy the beauty of nature’, Following an oral hearing in them. Dublin Co Co confirmed that adding that improvements in 2018, the board found that The full contents of the ‘They have worked the additional information Stating his opposition to parking facilities and other the assessments carried new information have not tirelessly and in difficult sought by An Bord Pleanala the project, Cllr Edge said, amenities could be made out on behalf of Coillte yet been made available circumstances which and South Dublin County but Cllr Edge welcomed the included a gross misuse Council were inappropriate Council’s indication that of the powers of the in a number of respects. they would be published as Standards in Public Ó BROIN AND WARD WILL CONTEST TWO Specifically, they were soon as An Board Pleanala Office Commission’. He tasked to carry out a direct them to do so, supported calls from fellow SEATS IN DUBLIN MID WEST fuller survey of merlin, a hopefully by mid January. councillors from across the migratory bird; to provide political spectrum for a full The Dublin Mid West Sinn been an honour to represent campaign together to bring greater detail about the Cllr Edge praised the discussion of this issue in Féin election directorate the constituency of Dublin out the maximum Sinn Féin impact of increased visitor campaign mounted by Save the Chamber and a rethink has agreed that both Eoin Mid West for the last four vote and do everything in numbers on vegetation and the Hellfire born out of love of the drastic scale of the Ó Broin TD and Mark Ward years and to have been the our power to return two habitats and to prepare for the landscape and its proposal. TD will contest the Dublin party’s spokesperson on Sinn Féin TDs for Dublin Mid Mid West constituency for Housing, Planning and Local West. the part in the up-coming government in the Dáil. general election. Ó Broin Deputy Ward said: “While topped the poll in the Retaining two seats in the I have only been a TD for 2016 general election and constituency is a challenge just over a month it has Ward topped the poll in the but one that both Mark given me the opportunity November bye-election. and I are up for. “We have to raise important issues been friends and colleagues and pieces of legislation Deputy Ó Broin said: “It has for some years and will affecting people across North Clondalkin.