Phil Prendergast MEP - Local News

  1. Allergy sufferers to benefit from stricter EU rules on clothes labelling
    Issued : Wednesday 11 May, 2011
     Allergy sufferers and people concerned about animal welfare will benefit from new EU clothes-labelling rules, according to Labour MEP for Ireland South, Phil Prendergast. 
  2. Confidence in EU shaken but isolation is not the answer - Prendergast
    Issued : Monday 9 May, 2011
    Ireland must continue to act as a persuader for better, wiser policies in the European Union, according to Europe’s newest MEP, Phil Prendergast.
  3. Spending power to the people under Labour
    Issued : Monday 21 February, 2011
     Labour’s plan for jobs and recovery can bring €100 million into the South Tipperary economy over three years. 
  4. Labour Plan on home repossessions will give peace of mind
    Issued : Tuesday 15 February, 2011
     The Labour Party’s plan for dealing with home repossessions and personal debt will give peace of mind to people making an honest effort to make repay their mortgages.
  5. Tipp town the latest victim of a Fianna Fáil Party that lost its roots as 94 jobs to go
    Issued : Thursday 3 February, 2011
     The closure of Pall Ireland in Tipperary town is a devastating blow to one of Ireland’s unemployment blackspots.
  6. Budget 2011 supports argument for renegotiating IMF deal
    Issued : Monday 31 January, 2011
     Budget 2011 is having a devastating effect on low- and middle- income families. I have been inundated by people losing between €20 and €90 a week because of the Universal ...
  7. VHI HIKE COULD BE CHALLENGED ON AGE DISCRIMINATION GROUNDS
    Issued : Friday 7 January, 2011
    Labour Senator Phil Prendergast has called on the Equality Authority to investigate whether VHI’s proposed increase in premiums discriminates against older people. The South Tipperary Senator who is the Labour ...
  8. LENIHAN AND MCGRATH MUST EXPLAIN HORSE FAIR DEAL ON BANKERS’ TAX
    Issued : Monday 13 December, 2010
    Brian Lenihan’s decision to put a 90% tax on bankers’ bonuses looks like it was agreed at a horse fair.
  9. It’s not a four-year plan it’s a GUBU plan
    Issued : Monday 29 November, 2010
    "The four-year plan finalised when the termsof the IMF bailout were established at the weekend is an impossible burden forthe country to carry.
  10. BACKBENCHERS CANNOT DUCK RESPONSIBILITY FOR NATIONAL HUMILIATION
    Issued : Friday 26 November, 2010
    The sight of backbench TDs trying to duck their responsibility for humiliating the country is adding to the people’s sense of anger and despair.

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