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Cycling Environment Government The Inter-Department Co-Ordination Board

National Roads Authority drives through national climate policy

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Tsk.. In 2009 the Department of Transport published Smarter Travel – A New Transport Policy for Ireland 2009 -2020. This policy document includes targets to ensure that by 2020 the total kilometres travelled by the national car fleet does not exceed 2009 levels, and that workplace single-car commuting travel reduces to 45% (from around 65% […]

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Europe Government

Asserting ourselves

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Irish Times: High-level Government officials spoke first thing that morning, after which visiting figures from the commission were called to Merrion Street for an unscheduled meeting at 9am. Quite what transpired remains unclear. By all accounts, however, a severe rebuke was delivered by a high-level Department of Public Expenditure official over the intervention by the […]

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Government Society

Unintended consequences – renters & water charge deposits?

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Renters face €1k water charge deposits | Irish Examiner: In a statement last night, the landlords’ group said that, despite Government claims that property owners could take unpaid water charge fees out of a tenant’s rent deposit, existing legislation prevents this. The association stressed this would be “a blatant contravention of tenancy and letting agreements […]

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Europe Government

Well, whaddya know..

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thejournal.ie – “Turns out Ireland was telling the truth about company taxes. Unlike nearly everyone else…“. A new report from PwC and the World Bank found Ireland had one of the most efficient company tax systems in the world and the best in Europe when it came to total taxes on business and the time […]

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Department of Slightly Pointless Government Regulation

Slow Clap of the Day: Delivery firms refuse to use new postcode system

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Oh, fantastic – ‘Delivery firms refuse to use new postcode system’. The introduction of Ireland’s new postcode service will be as problematic as Irish Water, some of the country’s biggest transport delivery firms confirmed. The Freight Transport Association of Ireland said the planned new Eircode service would be “useless” to its members. […] The randomly-generated […]

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