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May 1, 2021 12:00 pm
Just transition, along with “many” of the targets, “is an optional extra” in the new climate bill, according to deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.
Speaking in the Dail this week on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021, the People Before Profit TD said that the bill is “littered” with the phrase ‘as far as practicable’.
“It is a constant refrain,” the deputy said. “It is stated that, as far as practicable, we will do this, that and the other.
“If it is not practicable, we will not be doing it. In spite of all the references to climate justice, the single reference that the minister [Eamon Ryan] was forced to put in, which was not included in the first draft in the context of the just transition, is that of ‘as far as practicable’.
Cork TD calling for the former owners of Blarney hotel to stop dripfeeding refunds Mick Barry says around 20% of the former members of the leisure centre at Blarney Hotel and Golf Resort have been refunded their membership fees following threats of court action.
The hotel closed in January last year and was sold to the HSE at the start of April for a reported €3 million.
It s believed around 1,000 former members are owed between €100 and €1,000
Speaking to RedFM News, Deputy Mick Barry says the former owners should be able to afford the refunds: The former owners of the hotel seem to be making repayments to a small number of former members of the leisure centre every week now. It s not as though they can t afford to repay all the people owed money- they made €3 million recently from the sale of the hotel to the HSE. I m calling on them to stop the silly practice of drip feeding repayments and to just pay all the people they owe money in one goal