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SAVE CRUMLIN SWIMMING POOL!

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:24:28 +0000

Deputy Michael Mulcahy is assisting a large, community-based campaign to Save Crumlin Swimming Pool. This swimming pool is, of course, located at Windmill Road, adjacent to Pearse Park, in Crumlin. Built in 1970, this pool is widely used by local residents, families and their children, and by various swimming and sporting groups.

Although in need of refurbishment, this swimming pool serves the local community very well, but, this year, has not been provided with adequate funding by Dublin City Council to ensure it stays open for the remainder of the year.

Deputy Michael Mulcahy is campaigning hard to ensure that this swimming pool stays open, and is working with members of the Action Committee to ensure that this happens. Michael attended a recent Swim-In at the pool, and helped organise a meeting with the Minister for Sport, Mary Hanafin T.D.

Michael would really appreciate if you would join this campaign, the Keep Crumlin Swimming Pool Open campaign, by e-mailing him at michael.mulcahy@oireachtas.ie

MY CAMPAIGN AGAINST NOISE POLLUTION

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:46:54 +0000

Michael Mulcahy, both as a Dublin City Councillor, Lord Mayor, and now member of Dáil Éireann for Dublin South Central, has been a consistent and long term campaigner against noise. Whether it’s a burglar alarm that keeps ringing, or dogs barking early in the morning or late at night, or machinery left running, the fact of the matter is, in built-up urban areas, noise pollution is a very serious form of pollution and is detrimental to your health. Other examples of noise pollution include music being played too loud, builders on building works outside of the permitted hours, various utility companies doing their work at unsocial hours etc.

As part of the Programme for Government, the Government is committed to introducing a new Noise Nuisance Bill which has been prepared and approved by the Government in May 2009 and will be published shortly (certain legal issues need to be finalised). It is hoped that this Noise Nuisance Bill will be published by the end of this year, and, if you would like to support Michael’s campaign against Noise Pollution, please contact him at 6183000 or by e-mail at michael.mulcahy@oireachtas.ie

MULCAHY CAMPAIGNS AGAINST GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD (GMO’s)

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:22:48 +0000

Deputy Michael Mulcahy, the T.D. for Dublin South Central, has been a long term campaigner against genetically modified food and plants. “Not only is it bad for the environment, but I believe it is potentially catastrophic for the health of human beings” Deputy Mulcahy said recently.

Deputy Michael Mulcahy is particularly appalled that, after a moratorium on the marketing of GM products which lasted from October 1998 to May 2004, it seems that the European Commission is caving in to vested commercial interests and, forcing genetically modified food and plants on a very reluctant public.

More importantly, each of the new GMO’s which have been authorised by the European Commission, have not in fact been authorised by the European Council, which consists of all the Governments of the E.U., given that they failed to reach agreement.

The Programme for Government of the Fianna Fáil / Green Coalition, aims to declare the Republic of Ireland a GM Free Zone, free from the cultivation of all GM plants, which I strongly endorse and support.

The latest GM plant to be authorised by the European Commission is a BASF Plant Science (potato solanum tuberosum l.line EH92-527-1). This has been developed for starch production, and BASF has indicated that commercial cultivation in Germany and the Czech Republic is planned this year, extending to Sweden and the Netherlands in future years. Luckily, BASF has no plans to cultivate this plant in Ireland, which it is now legally entitled to do. Thankfully, the Irish Government voted against approval of this product when it was considered at European Council level (Agricultural Council) in 2007.

Let’s be clear – GMO’s are bad for the environment and bad for your health – I will always campaign against GMO’s, and I strongly urge you to join my campaign by contacting me at 6183000 or by e-mail at michael.mulcahy@oireachtas.ie