Speaking during statements on the Government’s Food Harvest 2020 Report in the Dáil last week, Fine Gael Deputy Spokesperson on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Noel Coonan TD said the report gives hope and confidence to farmers but without young people coming into agriculture “serious problems still exist”. “As the old saying goes ‘It is an

The ribbon on Deputy Noel Coonan’ s new office on Main Street, Roscrea will be officially cut by Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny this coming Friday 29th at 6.30pm. On invitation from Deputy Coonan, the Party Leader will visit Roscrea before attending the Fine Gael Selection Convention in Thurles later that evening. During the visit

Information released to Fine Gael Deputy for Tipperary North, Noel Coonan TD, has revealed that half of the schools’ 2010 capital budget remained unspent at the end of September. Meanwhile, 42 North Tipperary school building applications linger on the Department of Education and Skill’s project list waiting to be completed. “The Minister for Education has

Information released to Deputy Noel Coonan has revealed that an additional ten persons have recently been recruited to Thurles’s Garda Central Vetting Unit to manage the 60,000 vetting applications currently being processed. The local Fine Gael TD welcomed the extra appointments saying the excessive backlog and slow processing time was putting jobs in jeopardy. Deputy

Deputy Noel Coonan has welcomed the news that the Health Service Executive has again reiterated as priority the advancement of the proposed 20 bedded Extended Care Community Unit and Elderly Day Care Centre in Borrisokane. The HSE’s National Director of Estates Brian Gilroy told the local Fine Gael TD in response to a Dáil question

Speaking during Fine Gael’s Motion on health service cutbacks in the Dáil last Wednesday, Deputy Noel Coonan asked the Minister of State at the Department of Health to confirm what services are safe in Nenagh Hospital following the HSE’s proposed ‘Acute Medicine Programme’ which could see Nenagh lose its Intensive Care Unit, coronary care unit

Deputy Noel Coonan’s Roscrea office has moved location from 1 Rosemount to the more centrally-located former Music Store on Main Street. The new premises is ideally situated and opened its doors last Friday. Fine Gael Party Leader Deputy Enda Kenny will visit the constituency on Friday 29th October to officially cut the ribbon on the

Tests carried out by the Communications Regulator to verify that mobile phone coverage is properly available throughout the country should be expanded, the Oireachtas Communications Committee has said. Tipperary North TD, Noel Coonan is a Committee member. At a meeting, the regulator told Committee members it performs six monthly “drive tests” throughout the country to

Noel Coonan TD has warmly greeted his appointment as Fine Gael’s new Deputy Spokesperson on Agriculture with Special Responsibility for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform. On Monday, Party Leader Enda Kenny announced new Deputy Spokespersons in the Dáil and Tipperary North TD Noel Coonan was among one of those allocated special responsibility. Deputy Coonan will

Deputy Noel Coonan said any future losses to frontline health services in Nenagh General Hospital will be discussed in Dáil Eireann this Tuesday and Wednesday under a Fine Gael Health Motion. Fine Gael will call on the Government to ensure that there are no further reductions to frontline staff or services in Nenagh General Hospital and