Keep our green area wild!

We, the undersigned, are reaching out with an urgent appeal for support regarding the Freedom Flotilla mission to deliver life-saving aid to the people of Gaza. Recent developments have highlighted the challenges facing this humanitarian effort, and we believe that your assistance is crucial in ensuring its success. As you may be aware, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has encountered obstacles in its noble endeavour to provide essential aid to the people of Gaza. Political pressure has led to the withdrawal of flags from the flotilla's vessels, threatening to impede their mission. In light of these developments, we must stand in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla and take action to support their cause. We are calling on you, as representatives of the Irish people, to lend your voices and influence to this important issue. Specifically, we urge you to support efforts to allow the Freedom Flotilla to register its ship in Ireland, thereby enabling it to sail under the Irish flag and continue its humanitarian mission unhindered. By demonstrating our support for the Freedom Flotilla, we reaffirm Ireland's commitment to justice, compassion, and human rights on the international stage. Your support on this matter would not only be a powerful statement of solidarity with the people of Gaza but also a reflection of Ireland's values and principles. We urge you to consider the urgency of this situation and to take action in support of the Freedom Flotilla mission without delay. Thank you for your attention to this matter. We look forward to your positive response and continued support for justice and humanitarian causes. EMAIL TO SEND TO TD'S: I am reaching out to you with an urgent appeal for support regarding the Freedom Flotilla mission to deliver life-saving aid to the people of Gaza. Recent developments have highlighted the challenges facing this humanitarian effort, and we believe that your assistance is crucial in ensuring its success. As you may be aware, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has encountered obstacles in their noble endeavour to provide essential aid to the people of Gaza. Political pressure has led to the withdrawal of flags from the flotilla's vessels, threatening to impede their mission. In light of these developments, it is imperative that we stand in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla and take action to support their cause. We are calling on you, as a representative of the Irish people, to lend your voice and influence to this important issue. Specifically, we urge you to support efforts to allow the Freedom Flotilla to register its ship in Ireland, thereby enabling it to sail under the Irish flag and continue its humanitarian mission unhindered. By demonstrating our support for the Freedom Flotilla, we reaffirm Ireland's commitment to justice, compassion, and human rights on the international stage. Your support on this matter would not only be a powerful statement of solidarity with the people of Gaza but also a reflection of Ireland's values and principles. We urge you to consider the urgency of this situation and to take action in support of the Freedom Flotilla mission without delay. Thank you for your attention to this matter. We look forward to your positive response and continued support for justice and humanitarian causes.

To Stephen Donnelly and the Department of Health, In 2019, the HSE completed an inquest into the mental health disservices experienced by our precious Maxine Maguire prior to her death in 2017. The report that came out of this inquest presented a summary of recommendations for changes to be implemented in the Irish Mental Health system and services, which would make massive positive change in preventing further tragedy for those suffering with mental illness and their families. These changes would SAVE LIVES, and would have saved Maxine's had they been in place sooner. We urge you to waste no more time standing still while people continue to receive less than adequate care for their lives from your national mental health system. Implement these mental health system changes, YOUR recommendations (below), NOW. 1. When referring a patient to mental health services, an up to date review in person by the GP is strongly recommended to ensure an appropriate clinical presentation is available to mental health services to prioritize patient appointments. 2. Patients should be reviewed as soon as possible in Accident & Emergency. 3. An appropriate Information Technology System should be introduced that will facilitate rapid access to the complete set of patient's notes to enhance decision making and care planning. 4. Healthcare personnel should carefully consider the contents of all clinical notes, referral letters etc. to ensure effective decision making regarding review frequency, severity of illness and appropriate management plan. 5. Regular consistent review of patients would assist in ensuring early identification of risk issues, which may warrant a change in management and treatment. 6. The liaison team in 'Hospital B' should review it's processes to ensure continuity and senior clinical decision making. 7. Prior to discharge following a serious overdose a patient should be reviewed by a senior clinician. It is NOT enough to just tell us what you should fix in the mental health system - it actually needs to HAPPEN and BE fixed. It has been over 2 years since you have completed your inquest into Maxine's death and came up with the changes that YOU see as important steps to implement to save lives and yet these standards have still NOT been implemented. Don't assume that you can sweep this under the carpet and get to it another time - people all over Ireland are suffering from life-threatening mental health crises TODAY.

Sign this petition to make Trump aware of our disgust at his policies towards Gaza, Ukraine, Canada, Greenland etc  Hopefully if he realises how unpopular he is here he won’t come 

Make workplaces accessible for people with disabilities!

Hospital workers up and down the country went through a job evaluation scheme. A process was set up that had no right of appeal for a worker not satisfied with the outcome of their evaluation. There needs to be an immediate mechanism set up by the Minister to provide the right to workers to challenge their evaluation and where relevant be brought up to the appropriate band.

We want to make five changes to the current education system: 1) Make mental health education/social emotional learning mandatory in the curriculum. 2) Ensure that this education is maintained to a high standard through inspections. 3) Have a mental health lead in each school. 4) More communication between schools and the HSE mental health services. 5) Prioritise the mental health of teachers.

Dependants of Stamp 1/ General Skills/Critical skills/Stamp 4 permits holders should be given the same and equal stamps and eligibility to work & study in Ireland, and No More Misleading Stamps for Immigrants. Government should make sure companies should comply with DBEI's directives and companies should be held accountable for not accepting the dependents either on stamp 1g/stamp 3. What can the Government do to help to support Immigrants? - Provide a new stamp to the dependents or same as their permit holders, not same as graduates on job search. -Access to the job market by creating awareness and forcing companies to comply. -Access to Springboard courses -Banks to consider stamp 1g as a 2nd Income -Access to apprenticeship as SOLAS -Eligible to EU fees to take up a course at a university -Stamp change not required to take a degree course at a university

Keep Before 5 Family Centre open for the families.

Don't pass the upcoming budget unless there is a guarantee that there will be no increases in council rent.