Education Staff, both teachers and SNAs should be vaccinated as a matter of urgency in order to keep staff and our most vulnerable students safe and in order to facilitate the full reopening of our schools and to keep them open.

Please let us use the 6th Year Kitchen that should rightfully be ours. We will not make a mess, and in signing this petition, we all agree that we are capable of the responsibility that comes with having our own kitchen.

In every workplace in Ireland you are required to hold a valid occupational first aid certificate before beginning or obtain one while in employment. Why can't it be the same for mental health first aid? Helps: - Understand when someone needs help and where to send them. - Eliminates the stigma associated with mental health. - Everyone understands mental health better together. In 2019, roughly 421 people that were reported lost there lives to suicide in Ireland. There has been an epidemic in Ireland long before covid 19 and it has gone unnoticed. I am therefore calling on our government as well as companies to make it mandatory that you have to have a proper suicide prevention training or mental health first aid before starting any job. ***An assessment prior to the course will be carried out by trainers to understand the workers own mental wellbeing and to make sure to cater to each group so that people doing the course are not triggered.*** There is a mental health first aid course delivered through Mental Health Ireland. https://www.mhfaireland.ie/workplace?fbclid=IwAR1PCZi11aNcfwGyBygJrwvhHph5SOUo8qmkdF5QWWV9pzcp4bJcGVZpMoQ This does NOT take away from the fact we need more specialists such as counsellors in schools and psychologists as these are the people the first responders will be sending the people that are struggling too. I ask the government of Ireland to prevent any further suicides by passing this requirement into law. Enough is enough. I.E. this is also not a petition designed so that the government can wash there hands of 24hour services at A and Es and specialists which are badly needed in Ireland.

Protect our natural heritage!

Minister Mc McGrath, honour the commitment you made in 2015 to ratify the United Convention on the Rights of Disabled People before the end of 2016. It is one year and counting after the deadline. We, disabled people and our families have waited far too long for our rights to be recognised and protected in Irish law, by our democratically elected government. We NEED the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to be ratified immediately.

When construction of the new harbour at Greystones, Co Wicklow, began, all harbour users, including the traditional fishermen and their boats, had their moorings and other facilities removed while the project was being built. When the harbour was complete, the other users such as leisure clubs were provided with full facilities including new clubhouses, boat yards, storage and so forth. But the fishermen and their boats were excluded from the new harbour. This was despite the promises and guarantees we were given before we left in 2008 and on many occasions since, and in spite of the fact that provision of facilities to commercial fishers was included in the planning approval granted by Bord Pleanala. In 2014, Wicklow County Council issued harbour by-laws which effectively excluded the fishing fleet. The by-laws give a nod to mooring rights but, by imposing other conditions that are impossible to meet, effectively barred the fishing fleet from Greystones Harbour and transformed this traditional community harbour into a purely leisure boating facility. We, the fishing families of Greystones, do not accept this expulsion and have launched our new campaign to ensure that we can return from ten years of exile to our home port, with full rights to moor, land our catch, store bait and other equipment, and generally carry on our trade as we and our predecessors have traditionally done in Greystones for hundreds of years.

 For more than ten years now, we have had to moor at Dun Laoghaire, with huge disruption to our family and social lives. We have to drive to Dun Laoghaire each morning, drive our boats back to our traditional fishing grounds near our home port, then land our catch at Dun Laoghaire before we ready our boats for the next day and FINALLY drive home to Greystones, usually well after eight in the evening after a pre-dawn start. And being exiled to Dun Laoghaire adds €150 each week in fuel costs alone. Please sign this petition, which will be presented to the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for the Marine, and to the chief executive of Wicklow County Council. Your support can help ensure that we can come home at last, and that our skippers and crew can resume a normal existence. We now must negotiate with Wicklow County Council, and every person stepping forward to support our cause will influence how they deal with us and bring a positive outcome closer. Bring the boats home!

The lifts at our Dart stations are constantly breaking down and out of order. We want the 4hr request to travel removed and station attendants back on our platforms. We want a dart service that is inclusive and available to every one.

Keep our green area wild!

Keep our green area wild!

Keep our green areas wild!