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11th January 2021 PAY & ALLOWANCES FOR STUDENT Tallaght Stone Centre headstones crafted for all cemeteries NURSES AND MIDWIVES NEEDS TO Tel: (01) 462 6200 Fax: (01) 462 6209 email: [email protected] web: tallaghtstonecentre.ie BE ADDRESSED Dublin South West TD “The government’s issue is about fairness for 4th year graduates Seán Crowe has called delay and refusal to and respect and and allowances for all on the Government to put in place a fair pay needs to be urgently 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years. address the issue of and allowances system addressed. The TD continuted “By pay and allowances for student nurses and delivering on this, we for Student Nurses and midwives doesn’t stand The Tallaght TD added will be moving beyond Midwives. up to scrutiny and “We need to send out worthless clapping and is insulting to these a clear message to back slapping. We need Teachta Sean Crowe workers. graduate nurses and to send out a positive commented that the midwives that while and real message to Our Comprehensive Services Include: important role and We all know the we understand and student nurses and ♦ headstones ♦ inscriptions ♦ renovations ♦ chippings work of student nurses important role and seek to maintain the midwives that we value and midwife trainees work of student nurses education element the work that they do ♦ re-lettering ♦ counter tops ♦ house names ♦ granite estate signs had been highlighted and midwife trainees of their training, we and we want them to time and time again during the last twn equally acknowledge eventually work full Belgard Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24. during the COVID months of COVID the vital work that they time in Irish health care Pandemic where they Pandemic and while the have carried out and and service settings. continuously fill gaps pandemic continues particularly in the last and go beyond the currently where they ten months during this The local Tallaght training element of continuously fill gaps COVID Pandemic. TD concluded “The their contracts. and go beyond the Minister set up a review training element of “Sinn Féin supports the which he promised The Sinn Féin TD said: their contracts. This INMO’s call for fair pay would be completed by the end of December. We need to see real movement on this issue and the Government need to understand this crucial pay issue will not go away for the student nurses and midwives who are currently training and working during the COVID Pandemic.” See pages 7 to 15 for Newsgroup Education & Training Feature DO YOU HAVE A QUERY WHICH RELATES TO: LITIGATION FAMILY LAW ● Personal Injury Claims / ● Divorce ● P.I.A.B. ● Judicial Seperation ● Debt Collection ● Seperation Agreements / ● Medical Negligence ● Maintenance Applications BALLYOWEN CASTLE, BALLYOWEN SHOPPING CENTRE, LUCAN, CO. DUBLIN. CALL 01 - 6105 185 OR 01 6760 555 02 www.newsgroup.ie GHOSTING WILL COST CLIMATE CHANGE ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT South Dublin releases first actions of the CCAP. 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Picture credit: Ben Ryan www.newsgroup.ie 03 DRIVER THEORY TEST SHOULD BE DEEMED ESSENTIAL A Clondalkin Councillor has waiting for up to six months people especially, as they to employment and for “my grandson applied for because of this pandemic”. called for the driver theory already for an appointment are setting out on their many it is often as important his test last July (2019) and We need to ensure that tests to be deemed an and further delay like this working life and careers. as passing their leaving Jan 2020 was the earliest young people see their “essential service” by the will only lead to further certificate”. “We have he was offered which has futures progressing in front government. Some of those backlogs in the system. The Cllr William Carey added, set a very high standard now been cancelled, young of them, and receiving their who have had their theory cancellation of the driver for many, “obtaining a in this this country for people cannot be expected permit for driving is an test cancelled have been theory test affects younger driving licence is their route obtaining a driving licence to put their life on hold essential part of that. and it is an essential tool for many people seeking employment. This delay in LOCAL TD CALLS FOR STRICTER the process may not seem much, but my fear is that it will have knock on effects PLANNING ENFORCEMENT further in the process that Dublin Mid West TD Gino Kenny has called 2019. It’s completely unacceptable that will lead to further delays on the government to introduce stricter developers and land owners are allowed in driver testing. “I find it planning enforcement measures to tackle to breach planning regulations without astonishing that the theory planning breaches. The comments were any consequences. I’m calling on the test, which is the first step made following new revelations in relation government to introduce stricter planning for all people wishing to to planning breaches at former Liffey Valley enforcement measures to tackle the obtain a driving licence Fitness, now known as Larkfield House. complete disregard by certain developers should be omitted from the for planning regulations.” chain of procedures. The In early 2019 it was reported that the owner theory test takes place in had constructed a number of apartments on Cllr Madeleine Johansson added: “There a controlled environment, the site without planning permission. At the should be some regard to previous breaches sitting in front of a last Lucan/Palmerstown/North Clondalkin of planning regulations by individuals when computer screen and it is area committee a reply to a question from a new application is received. The owner ludicrous to think that this Cllr Madeleine Johansson revealed that the of Larkfield House, Vincent Cosgrave, cannot be provided safely”. owner once again had sought retention for recently applied for planning permission on the additional units without rectifying prior a site at Watery Lane in Clondalkin Village Cllr. Carey was speaking breaches. where the council has requested additional after learning that the driver information. Any individual who has been theory test has not been Gino Kenny TD commented: “The situation in breach of planning regulation should included as an “essential in former Liffey Valley Fitness has been automatically be rejected when seeking service” in the list of ongoing for almost two years. As of yet planning permission. There needs to be services provided by the the only enforcement measure has been a serious consequences for any developer/ Road Safety Authority.