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SINN FÉIN’s CATHERINE Kelly has resigned as an MLA, the latest party official to step down over the failure to return £10,000 payments from an emergency Covid-19 fund.
In a statement this afternoon, Sinn Féin’s leader Mary Lou McDonald said that she had accepted Kelly’s resignation.
She said that Kelly, an MLA for West Tyrone, “is a signatory to an account into which a small business grant of €10,000 was lodged in error”.
“The grant was unsolicited and has been repaid in full. The failure to return the grant immediately is unacceptable. Catherine fully accepts that she did not discharge her duties as a public representative in this regard,” McDonald said.
Earlier this week, Sinn Féin Senator and former MP Elisha McCallion, as well as two other officials, resigned due to the failure to return money from the scheme.
This scheme was put in place to help small businesses affected by Covid-19. It opened up for applications in March and closed at the end of May. The offices of MPs and MLAs were ineligible for the Covid-19 scheme.
McDonald said that she wanted to again “acknowledge and apologise for the clear failure to immediately reimburse public money”.
She also said that the party’s “examination of this matter is now complete”.
Hope the first thing they put in Is a new name
They really need to build a new town or city way outside Dublin. Make some major incentives for businesses and eventually displace thousands of prowl and homes outside the existing cities.
people*
@iohanx: they have three of them.
@Ronan Sexton: then make them cop on
@TonyF: cause Dublin has more people in it….
@iohanx: Portlaoise and Athlone are prime locations for major development and increase in size. Both have good transport infrastructure to most major cities in country. Don’t know why government has never invested heavily in either of these two towns.
@your bustin: at least it’s Irish, remember all those Acorn downs etc built during the “tiger years”
@Ronan Sexton: No, they need to start from scratch similar to a Canberra or Washington DC (but not a requirement for a capital city). A place with no baggage and a new start for tens of thousands. It will eventually suck people in from all over the country freeing up housing in the other populous areas. Build it and they will come as they say.
@Nathan Mawhinney: Dublin took and I repeat “took” around € 400 million strategic EU funding that was given to the rest of the country.
There was proposed to bring in an integrated ticketing service for Dublin allowing Dubs to jump from The Dart to the bus and by the time it came about they could also use The Luas with one ticket. At the time it was proposed The Minister for Transport was Mary O’ Rourke and the cost was supposed to be € 25 million or it could have been punts. By the time The Leap was introduced no doubt the cost has gone up by millions. In the meantime if one of us living outside of Dublin who want to visit we’ll say Saint Vincent’s Hospital you have to go to for instance Galway station buy a ticket to Dublin and then make your way to Connelly or whatever and buy a new ticket for that and buy another ticket to get to Sydney Parade. I am glad that Dublin is more attractive to hoards I would hate rest of the country.
@your bustin: why not a bad place to live as I have for the past almost 40 years. Would Developers Envelope be ok or wink and a nod..
Scandalously low density for such a prime site on a major railway line into town. Could fit 40,000 homes here, not 8,000. Build high density apartment blocks and reduce the number of houses and parks. Sick of this Irish obsession with acres of parks in the middle of the city, go out into the countryside if you want to play on grass. We cannot build a well functioning city if we all think we’re entitled to a front and back garden, as well as a park on all sides. Need to grow up.
@Fred Jensen: your vision Fred of no parks sounds like a great place to bring up children
Fred, a big issue is grid locked roads in the area and every home having two cars…the decision to keep the house density low might be wise because of this.
And don’t mention trains…they are too expensive and everyone doesn’t work in the city center which is just about the only major work place they deliver workers near.
@John Power:
Didn’t say no parks, just fewer. Please tell us how they manage to bring up kids in New York, London and Hong Kong.
@Fred Jensen: Is the Hong Kong blueprint the type of environment you want for future generations ?
@Fred Jensen: Grass-hole , have kids you muppet then tell them you have chosen to live in an apartment to alleviate density issues within the planning law . Muppet
@Fred Jensen: The difference between Hong Kong/ New York and Clonburris is the former have some of the best transport networks in the world, where Clon B has nothing, no light rail, no proper Bus service and wait for it, no road system to move 15 to 20000 residents. You must have proper planning before plopping 200000 people in the middle of the Suburbs or else you will have a social time bomb in 20 years time. I say that as a resident and parent living in the locality..
@John Power: that is what they did in Ballymun
@Fred Jensen:
Shut up Fred, you have a problem for every solution.
@Fred Jensen: this is why ballymun didn’t work….
Too many people with no amenities… we’ve learned our lesson I think.
@Fred Jensen: In the app there is a great feature “mute Fred Jensen”. Problem solved nicely!
@Fred Jensen: Yeah make it like China with no pure air to breath.
I’m sure it’ll rival the other great mass development in Dublin: Adamstown. Think of all the services and finished houses and roads they got!
@The Throwaway: it’s right beside Adamstown!!! About 200 metres from the western edge of Clonburris to the eastern edge of Adamstown. God help us all who live in the area. It’s like being a prisoner in your own home at peak times. And it will only get worse because the Council won’t insist on public transport providers providing a minimum level of service. 400 metres from a bus stop is no use if there are no or few buses!
@Kevin Farrell: Is that accurate Kevin?
Adamstown 2.0
The urban sprawl in Dublin needs to stop. We really need to start building up closer to to the city center down along the dock lands.
Before the preserve every pile of rubble brigade chim in. Dublin city centre dose have many beautiful buildings but there is also a many many ugly and derelict buildings that need to be knocked.
@Thomas Maher: I don’t think it’s a decision that particular developer can make.
@Thomas Maher: I walked thru Dublin city centre last night and while there are occasional examples of good design most of the modern buildings in Dublin are nothing more than unimaginative box shaped structures that contribute nothing to a city with so much potential
To all the professional moaners and complainers here, there is a public consultation process to which I’d like to draw your attention, before you run out of ammo here on the Journal..
@psychiatrist: but I want to moan and complain here! Too lazy to go to the consultation.
Step in the right Direction. .
@The Viking: 8000 houses announced. All I read is complaints.” Oh you cant name it this” .” Surely they could build more than 8000 on that land” By the way. The builder never named it. That patch of land has gone by that name for generations.. As i said. A step in the right direction.
They really should push for Adamstown to be finished first.
Couldn’t pay me to move there!
@Paul: where do you live?
@Paul: not since that ridiculous bill was defeated. How it works is you pay the developer to live there.
@DarkHorse: my Rented Dublin property is near 3Arena
right beside 2 halting sites, No thanks
Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
A ghetto in the making.
Should ban the parents driving the kids to school seeing as they are so close.
Let’s hope they build some schools to go with the houses. Usually an afterthought.
@Sean @114: did you even read the arrticle?
Give the kids plenty of football pitches to play on.
Wonder will sdcc stick to the plans or will they give in to the demands of developers and change at will. Example Adamstown with little or no amenities. Sold an expensive dream; given something completely different.
Still no plan for a subway system or an integrated affordable transport system then?….. or a directly elected mayor with responsibility for representing the wishes of Dubliners?…. but great a new suburb with all the traffic and more congestion
This SDZ is right beside the Adamstown SDZ – about 200 metres from the western edge of Clonburris to the eastern edge of Adamstown! God help us all who live in the area. It’s like being a prisoner in your own home at peak times. And it will only get worse because the Council won’t insist on public transport providers providing a minimum level of service. 400 metres from a bus stop is no use if there are no or few buses! Bus lanes are no use if there are no buses. The Kishoge train station was built years ago at a cost of millions and remains closed to this day.
Paul gogarty .. :)
The answer is not extending Dublin’s sunurbian sprawl but, instead, to limit it by decentralising more Government offices & service delivery centres thereby decluttering
the CBD and accommodating CBD workers.
This is a load of arse
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