TD calls for autism-specific legislation

Michael McCarthy

LABOUR TD for Cork South-West Michael McCarthy has called for the introduction of autism-specific legislation.

Deputy McCarthy said that the advances that have been made in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland on the issue, where autism-specific laws and national strategies have been put in place in recent years underlined the need for specific legislation in Ireland.

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The Failure of banks to pass on interest rate cut raises legislative questions

Enda Kenny was said to be furious with the banks. Pic: Fine Gael

THE news that the AIB and the Bank of Ireland will not pass on an interest rate cut to citizens is galling, unacceptable and a precedent that cannot be allowed to continue.

The Government and its members have made numerous calls for this situation to be reversed, yet the AIB have seen fit to ignore a request from the Taoiseach himself to pass on the cuts to the mortgage holders.

The recent rescue of these financial establishments by the Irish citizens was an unprecedented situation, one that the people of this country quite rightly found hard to except.

Now, after these banks stretched the Irish taxpayer to breaking point, they have the temerity to refuse to help ease the difficulty of thousands of Irish customers.

This is, without doubt, unacceptable.

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