Tag: environment

€45,500 to clean up Fingal

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell, has said that €45,500 has been allocated to clean up Fingal as part of funding allocations being made through two environmental grant schemes, namely the 2015 Local Agenda 21 (LA21) Environmental Partnership Fund and the 2015 Anti-Litter & Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant Scheme (ALAGS).   “A total of €45,500 has been allocated to…

53 farmers in Dublin apply for GLAS

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell, has welcomed the news that 53 farmers in Dublin have applied for the first tranche of GLAS funding, Ireland’s new agri-environment scheme, co funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.   The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, has confirmed that 53 farmers in Dublin have…

The adverse impacts of climate change can already be seen in our local communities

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell highlighted the fact that the negative effects of climate change have already been seen in local communities throughout Dublin Fingal as he questioned the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on a number of aspects in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015.   “Climate change has already…

Revision of ‘smoky’ coal ban will benefit environment and health in Dublin North

Fine Gael TD for Dublin North Alan Farrell has said that the revision of the ‘smoky’ coal ban for Dublin, thus switching over to smokeless fuels, will have environmental and health benefits for Dublin North. “Minister Phil Hogan has announced that the ‘smoky coal ban’ regulations are to be revised in Dublin North in time for the next winter fuel…