[…]of finances is far off where it should be. None of the asks in the USI’s Pre-Budget submission for the Irish language were introduced by Government on Tuesday. USI’s Leas-Uachtarán don Ghaeilge, Bláithín Nic a t-Sithigh said: “USI has continuously lobbied the Government for increased funding for the Irish Language and the Gaeltacht, in particular for third-level courses through Irish. We are also part of Conradh na Gaeilge’s ‘Plean Fáis,’ which sets out an investment plan for the language. Under this plan, there would be a staged increase to an overall spend of 0.4 percent of the Budget on Irish. […]
[…]In Budget 2017, the maximum personal rate for an adult aged 25 was increased from €144.00 to €147.80, while those aged 18-24 saw an increase from €100 to €102.70. The breakdown can be found below: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for persons aged 15-24 years (youth unemployment rate) was 12.9% in April 2017, a decrease from 13.7% in March 2011. Despite initiatives to incentivise young people to work with 3,250 places being created since 2013 there are 16,082 young people in long-term unemployment seeing majority of young people struggling on €100 p/w or €144 p/w and the will still struggle […]
[…]electricity usage on average across all the participating halls of residence – keeping over 1,800 tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere. It’s very important to us that our campaign reaches beyond the usual green suspects. We aim to get even the people with little prior interest or knowledge in energy and climate change involved through making the campaign appealing and fun. While we recognise that switching things off isn’t the solution to climate change on its own, we think saving energy is a good building block and the actions that we encourage students to adopt will save them money […]
[…]electricity usage on average across all the participating halls of residence – keeping over 1,800 tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere. It’s very important to us that our campaign reaches beyond the usual green suspects. We aim to get even the people with little prior interest or knowledge in energy and climate change involved through making the campaign appealing and fun. While we recognise that switching things off isn’t the solution to climate change on its own, we think saving energy is a good building block and the actions that we encourage students to adopt will save them money […]