# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 21 April, 2015
# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
Minister of State Fergus O’Dowd was the highest profile Government representative present as they were asked to request a debt writedown by Independent TDs
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Joan Collins TD had claimed that the deal was unconstitutional because it gave the Minister for Finance open ended power to approve the payments without Dáil approval.
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# united-left-alliance - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The formation of a new political party involving TDs Clare Daly and Joan Collins comes in the wake of the apparent collapse of the United Left Alliance in recent months.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
The ULA deputy was arrested in Dublin last night, and said she had “been given a hot whiskey for a cold.”
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 26 January, 2013
The party of Joe Higgins has pulled out of the ULA, meaning the group now only has three members in the Dáil.
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# united-left-alliance - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
TDs debated proposed amendments until after 11pm last night – amid complaints that not enough time had been allocated.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
People Before Profit TD Joan Collins has used parliamentary privilege to reveal the names of an Irish sports star and journalist who allegedly had penalty points struck-off their licence.
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# united-left-alliance - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Justice Minister Alan Shatter was speaking as the government prepares to respond to the expert group on abortion’s report before the end of the year. TDs will also debate and vote on abortion legislation tonight.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 24 November, 2012
SIPTU president Jack O’Connor alleges that protesters carrying Sinn Féin and ULA banners attempted to disrupt proceedings.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 17 November, 2012
We’ve been asking every single member of the Oireachtas where they stand on the X Case and legislation but less than 20 per cent have responded. Here’s what the parties think…
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# united-left-alliance - Sunday 28 October, 2012
The government has committed to abolishing the upper house but where do the parties stand on whether it should stay or go? We asked them and here is what they told us…
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# united-left-alliance - Sunday 21 October, 2012
The Irish left has a history of schism, writes Adrian Grant – but if it wants to reap electoral rewards it must learn to co-operate.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 20 October, 2012
It’s a long way off but how would you vote if there were an election right now?
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# united-left-alliance - Sunday 23 September, 2012
We’ve asked all of the political parties and a smattering of independents to outline clearly and in detail their position on the Croke Park Agreement on public sector pay and reform. Here is what they said…
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 8 September, 2012
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Paul Murphy MEP picks a speech by socialist Karl Liebknecht.
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# united-left-alliance - Monday 3 September, 2012
Clare Daly has asked the Socialist Party to pass on some of the allowance it gets for her membership. What’s going on?
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Joe Higgins says a “majority” of people within the United Left Alliance object to Clare Daly’s political support to Mick Wallace.
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# united-left-alliance - Sunday 2 September, 2012
Clare Daly says any suggestion that she left the Socialist Party because of Mick Wallace is “a complete lie”.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 1 September, 2012
The Dublin North TD said that the criticism from her former colleagues in the Socialist Party was “inaccurate” but said she would not engage in a war of words following her resignation earlier.
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# united-left-alliance - Wednesday 4 July, 2012
The Socialist Party TD has defended her use of travel expenses for going to meetings around the country urging a boycott of the household charge.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
Independent TD Thomas Pringle said that he did not use expenses to travel around the country to urge people to boycott the household charge as other independent deputies have done.
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# united-left-alliance - Sunday 24 June, 2012
Nine things to know this morning.
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# united-left-alliance - Friday 8 June, 2012
Both Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle believe that evading taxes is entirely separate to rejecting an austerity agenda.
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The Wexford TD could either face bankruptcy action or a criminal prosecution – both of which would see him quit the Dáil.
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# united-left-alliance - Thursday 7 June, 2012
Independent TDs and the United Left Alliance have criticised the Wallace after he admitted evading VAT.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 2 June, 2012
A motion will be discussed on Wednesday and Thursday forcing the government to undertake the remedial works.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 12 May, 2012
On a ‘No’ vote: Economist Terrence McDonough says evoking fear in people over the recession is not an appropriate move by government.
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# united-left-alliance - Friday 4 May, 2012
The allowance is given to the carer of children with severe disabilities who need close supervision. Opposition TDs say there have been significant problems with the payment recently.
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# united-left-alliance - Thursday 19 April, 2012
Micheál Martin led criticism of the government over changes to the one-parent allowance during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil this morning.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 17 April, 2012
Joe Higgins, Micheál Martin, Eamon Gilmore and Catherine Murphy all gave evidence today. Here’s what happened.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 14 April, 2012
Colm Keaveney says that the alliance of left-wing parties in the Dáil stands for nothing but People Before Profit’s Joan Collins accused him of being “disingenuous”.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 10 March, 2012
It’s been exactly one year since the current crop of TDs took their seats in Leinster House for the first session of the current Dáil. Here’s what’s happened over the year in photographs.
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# united-left-alliance - Thursday 1 March, 2012
Marches took place across Spain as well as in Paris, Athens, Lisbon and Brussels, with hundreds at a demo in Dublin.
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# united-left-alliance - Wednesday 29 February, 2012
Protesters marched to Leinster House today to protest against a range of measures affecting rural Ireland, including the household charge, septic tank charges, and the closure of schools and hospitals.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 28 February, 2012
Fianna Fáil will campaign in favour of a ‘Yes’ vote but Sinn Féin will say ‘No’.
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# united-left-alliance - Saturday 25 February, 2012
It really is a year since the historic general election. But who would you give your first-preference vote to now?
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# united-left-alliance - Wednesday 22 February, 2012
Joan Collins, who verbally lashed Ahern on his final day in the Dáil, was reflecting on her first year as a TD.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
Independent TD Joan Collins was among a group of activists that stopped the attempted eviction of a man from his home in Laois yesterday.
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# united-left-alliance - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
A motion being debated this evening and tomorrow would see the State back out of repaying bonds and promissory notes.
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