Archive for May 2010
FUNDING NEEDED TO KEEP JUSTICE FOR THE FORGOTTEN OPEN
Posted on May 25, 2010
Justice for the Forgotten will have to close its doors by the end of June unless they can source a new funder. The Government is refusing to provide them with any further funding and they have been seeking to identify alternatives over the past months. They are now in a position that they have no money to keep going in the short term, which means they may not be in a position to avail of funding in the long term.
EURO AREA LOAN FACILITY BILL 2010
Posted on May 25, 2010
The purpose of the Bill is to give Dáil approval to the Loan Facility Agreement between the Euro Area Member States of the EU and Greece in order to prevent Greece from defaulting on its loans and to secure the stability of the Eurozone as a whole.
The Bill provides for the loans to be managed by the EU Commission on behalf of the Member States and for conditions to be applied in relation to fiscal measures and structured reforms which will be reviewed quarterly by the Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
The funding totalling €110 billion - €80 billion from the EU Member States and €30 billion from the International Monetary Fund will be payable over three years.
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PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES FINALLY BANNED
Posted on May 25, 2010
The decision of the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, to ban certain psychoactive substances, such as Mephedrone, which are currently on sale in Head Shops, is most welcome.
The banned substances will be included in the Misuse of Drugs Act and are illegal from today.
Of course the ban should have been introduced months ago before the proliferation of Head Shops country wide began. Yesterday the EU Commission told the Minister for Health what the Labour Party has been telling her for months, namely, that there was no need to await the expiration of a three month consultation period before legislation could be introduced to ban certain substances in Head Shops.
As always with this government it is a case of too little, too late.
