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A crumbling brick shown outside Leinster House at a mica redress protest in 2021 Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

100% Redress Party given green light to run candidates in elections

The Registrar of Political Parties is approving an application by the 100% Redress Party to become a registered political party.

A GROUP FOCUSED on campaigning for compensation for homeowners impacted by defective building materials is set to be given approval to become a formal political party.

The 100% Redress Party will be allowed to run candidates in local and general elections after receiving the approval of Ireland’s Registrar of Political Parties.

In a statement this morning, the Electoral Commission outlined that the Registrar “has today given notice of his intention to approve an application by the 100% Redress Party to become a registered political party eligible to stand candidates in Ireland’s Dáil and local elections”.

“The decision made by the Chief Executive of An Coimisiún Toghcháin, the Electoral Commission, Mr Art O’Leary, as Ireland’s Registrar of Political Parties, will become effective after a 21-day appeal period, or the outcome of any such appeal,” the statement said.

“The formal notification has today been published in the official Irish State gazette, Iris Oifigiúil.”

The party has been contacted for comment.

The government outlined plans in 2021 for a redress scheme targeted at the cost of rebuilding homes affected by mica and pyrite.

However, campaigners have argued that the scheme falls short of adequately covering the costs facing impacted homeowners.

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    Apr 15th 2014, 10:20 AM

    Information is power. These companies are now more powerful than states.
    It concerns me when IBM Computers owns a company like G4S and G4S is bidding to buy Police forces in the Uk.
    So what is law.?
    Is law a profit making exercise.?
    Is policing interested in a community or is that just naive.
    Is police only interested in collected intelligence / data , issuing fines, and protecting corporate interest under the guise of health safety and well being.
    Well my research to date leads me to say that the police forces of the world are only about protecting vested interests .

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    Apr 15th 2014, 11:07 AM

    good news for Leitrim and Roscommon right?

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    Apr 15th 2014, 9:20 AM

    This Internet is doing my head in !

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    Apr 15th 2014, 9:43 AM

    Well don’t go on it then

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    Apr 15th 2014, 1:28 PM

    I look forward to the day my boss can go to my google+ page and observe me live on the drone cam, stretched out in my back garden with a flagon of linden village and a bag of tayto when I am meant to be at the office.

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    Apr 15th 2014, 11:16 AM

    I’m happier it is in the hands of Google and not Facebook. Google have a culture of making the world better and simpler and where possible providing products for free.

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    Apr 15th 2014, 11:47 AM

    Yeah, they really have our interests at heart, god bless them.

    This latest one is just what humanity has been crying out for……
    http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/google-patents-tiny-cameras-embedded-in-contact-lenses/

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    Apr 15th 2014, 10:28 AM

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    Apr 15th 2014, 11:07 AM

    Google have drones!, there’s no way we’re gonna get more tax off them now.

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    Apr 15th 2014, 12:23 PM

    This will help them find MH370

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    Apr 15th 2014, 10:36 PM

    Google are buying up a lot of tech companys lately, I can’t wait to see what they come out with.

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    Apr 15th 2014, 11:47 PM

    Jesus, Muhammad, and the Buddha were holding a seminar on religion. In turn they asked each other the same question. “Why are most of our people so unhappy with their lives?” They debated, and came to this conclusion. People were seeking the Holy Grail through.. Money, luxury, and affluence. However, this only gives a quick fix before a downer sets in. Then, they were each given a piece of paper on which to write where they thought the Holy Grail was hidden.

    When they checked, they each had the same answer.

    “The Holy Grail lays hidden inside everybody’s heart. Alas, the last place anyone looks!”

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