PRESS RELEASE

NEXT TIME STAGG MOUTHS OFF ABOUT INDEPENDENTS ASK HIM TO CHECK HIS FACTS

Deputy Finian McGrath T.D has strongly challenged Deputy Stagg T.D (Labour) about his recent attacks on Independents and their allowances.  It is time for him to check his facts.  Labour gets:

• €63,319 per T.D. in funding from the taxpayer.

• Labours Leaders allowance will increase from €2.1 million to €2.6 million.

McGrath challenged Stagg on these accurate figures.  Deputy Stagg T.D. also supported the blatant discrimination of Independent T.Ds by excluding them from the Oireachtas Commission.  That cost is an extra €15,000 and the Independents said they would do it for nothing.  It is also undemocratic and another example of ‘stroke politics’.

Deputy McGrath T.D. also said he would have no problem cutting allowances provided the major political parties did it too.  He described Deputy Stagg T.D. as engaging in phoney politics.

4th July, 2011

Standards in Public Office Commission
Coimisiun urn Chaighdeain in Oifigl Poibli

18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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Press Release - Exchequer Funding received by Qualified Political
Parties & Party Leaders Allowance

Date Released: 27.05.2011

Political parties received a total of €13,480,748 in state funding for 2010, according to figures
released today by the Standards Commission. The money was paid to the parties under the
Electoral Acts and under the Party Leaders Allowance legislation.

Five parties (Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour, Sinn Fein and the Green Party) received funding of
€5,438,385 under the Electoral Acts and those five parties also received €8,042,363 under the
Party Leader's Allowance legislation. The ttached table shows the amounts received by qualified
political parties for 2010 under the Electoral Acts and the Party Leader's Allowance legislation.

The funding is not subject to income tax and may not be used for electoral or referendum
purposes. The level of funding is linked to pay increases in the civil service; however, the
legislation which governs the funding is silent on pay decreases. Qualified political parties must
furnish to the Standards Commission Statements of Expenditure of the funding received.

Non-party members elected to Dail and Seanad Eireann also receive funding under the Party
Leaders Allowance legislation. The amount payable to each such non-party member of Dail
Eireann during 2010 was €41,152 and the amount payable to each non-party member of Seanad
Eireann during the same period was €23,383. The total paid to non-party members was €304,905.
Non-party members are not required, however, to provide a Statement of Expenditure of the
allowance to the Standards Commission, or to any other authority.

Details of the funding and how it was spent are contained in two reports published today by the
Standards Commission. These reports are available on www.sipo.gov.ie.

1. Report to the Minister for Finance concerning Statements of Expenditure and Public Auditors'
Reports, in respect of 2010, furnished under the Party Leaders Allowance Act.

2. Report to the Ceann Comhairle concerning Statements of Expenditure and Public Auditors'
Reports, in respect of 2010, furnished under the Electoral Acts.

The Statements of Expenditure and Auditors' Reports furnished to the Standards Commission may
be inspected and copied by members of the public at its offices at 18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin
2.

Total Exchequer funding of qualified political parties in 2010 under the Electoral Acts and
the Party Leaders Allowance.

Finian Me Grath T.D.
INDEPENDENT - DUBLIN NORTH CENTRAL

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www.finianmcgrath.ie

Roads and Traffic Department,
Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8.

An Roinn Boithre agus Trachta,
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Mr Finian McGrath, T.D.,
Dail Eireann,
Leinster House,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.

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Our Ref: 1047476/BOR
Please quote Our Ref:
30th June, 2011

Re: Reps for Traffic Calming Measures on St. Brigid's Grove, Dublin 5.

Dear Deputy,

I refer to your e-mail of28th June.2011.on behalf of residents of St.Brigids Estate, Dublin 5,regarding the above. I wish to inform you that this request has been added to the existing Traffic Advisory Group agenda for examination and report by the Area Traffic Engineer in due course. Reports are submitted in the first instance to the Traffic Advisory Group for consideration at their monthly meeting and are then referred to the following month's Area Committee meeting for noting by the Area Councillors.
I will write to you again with the relevant recommendation of the Traffic Advisory Group following completion of these steps. Please note that this process normally takes at the minimum a number of months or longer depending on the overall volume of requests already on hand for examination, the nature of the requests and the availability of technical staff resources to assess these requests. Certain requests, for example, will require a traffic and speed count or pedestrian count or extended examination etc.
Yours sincerely,

Brenda O'Reilly
Assistant Staff Officer
Administration/Traffic Advisory Group
Tel: 222 3804

Ronan Hickey
56 Kincora Road,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3,
Ireland

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Ph 0863391142

Education:

BSc Zoology,
First Class Honours, December 2004
NUl University Collage Dublin,
MSc Marine Mammal Science,
July 2005
University Of Wales, Bangor
Postgraduate Diploma in Education
NUl University Collage Dublin,

Teaching Experience:

Mount Carmel Secondary School, King's Inns Street
1sl and 2nd year Science, 1sl and 3rd year Maths.
Sep 2010 - Jun 2011

Research Experience:

Site Coordinator, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Harbour Porpoise Survey, Irish Whale and Dolphin Group,

Jul-Nov 2008

Abundance estimates and determination of g(O) for harbour porpoises at five sitesaround Ireland with passive acoustic monitoring (T-PODs) at three of the sites.

Site Coordinator, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Small Cetacean Site Investigation Survey, Irish Whale and Dolphin Group,

Jul-Nov 2008.

Abundance estimates and determination of g(O) for small cetaceans at three sites around Ireland with Photo Identification of dolphin species.

Research Assistant, Seawatch Foundation, Cardigan bay, Wales.

June 2005, July 2007 - September 2007

Acoustic monitoring of bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises in Cardigan Bay

Research Assistant, Behavioural Ecology Laboratory, Texas A&M University, Dusky dolphin movement patterns near Kaikoura, New Zealand.
September - November 2006

MSc. Marine Mammal Science, University of Wales, Bangor: "Comparative study of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) whistles in Cardigan Bay SAC and in the Shannon Estuary"

Research Assistant, Shannon Dolphin and Wildlife Foundation, Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Acoustic deterrents tested on bottlenose dolphins in the Shannon Estuary, July 2005.

Internship, Natural History Museum Ireland, June 2003
Identification and Cataloguing bird collection, mainly Pssittacoformes (parrots)

Towards a Bottlenose Dolphin Ethograme from the Shannon Estuary, Ireland.

Authors R Hickey, S. Berrow and J Goold. (2009) Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, VoI109(B) No 2: Pages 89-94

Other Experience:

Clontarf Gaa, boys, under 11's, hurling mentor.

Engineering Technician. Spectrum Engineering Ltd, April - August 2006, March-July 2007. November 2008 to Present.
• Air conditioning and heating and cooling water flow monitoring and
balancing
Engineering Technician. Datum Monitoring Ltd. May - September 2004.
• Theodolite use to measure movement of tunnel walls and supportsduring
tunnel construction.
• Measurement and Monitoring of ground water pressure levels.

References:

Gerard Cullen
Mount Carmel Secondary School,
King's Inns St.
Dublin 1
Tel. 8730958
Mob: 086-8932454
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John Toomey
PGDE Supervisor
UCD
Mob: 086-3841554
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Name: Michael Archbold

Address: 12 Alden Drive, Sutton, Dublin 13

Tel: 087 - 4133737

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Education

~ Greendale Community School, Kilbarrack - 2007
~ Studied seven subjects at Leaving Certificate level including:
~ A2 English (Ordinary Level)
~ C2 History (Ordinary Level)
~ C3 Geography (Ordinary Level)

Employment

Eurospar Supermarket Bayside Dublin 13

~ Temporary and full-time work ranging from July 2007 until February 2008.

~ Duties included Butchery, serving customers, implementing HACCP and cleaning the Butcher area to a high standard.

Heritage Buildings

~ Temporary and full-time employment in 2008.
~ My duties included assisting with Block-laying, Painting and Decorating,
Plastering.

Bank of Ireland, 2 College Green, Dublin 2

~ Temporary (Fixed-term) full-time employment from 10th September 2008 to 11th June 2009.

Soul Kids, Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois and Body and Soul Festival, Athboy, Co. Meath

~ Four days in Stradbally in September 2009 and seven days in Athboy in June 2010.

~ Constructed children's play area and acted as security during the festival. Wagstaff Interiors Group.

~ Full time work between August and November of 2010.

~ My duties involved renovating offices, assisting plasterers and tilers and cleaning and maintaining the building site.

~ This position involved many hours of over-time and resulted in recurrent seven day working weeks.

Achievements

Football: Mid-Sutton Soccer Team 2002-2007
~ Player of the Year 2003, 2006 and 2007
~ Team Captain 2004-2007

Gaelic: Greendale Community School 2002-2007
~ Represented my Secondary School in school cups as a goalkeeper

Athletics: Raheny Shamrocks Athletic Club 2001
~ Three Cross- Country medals (one silver and two bronze)

Member of the Reserve Defence Forces 2007
~ Basic Training, Weapons Training, Combat Training, First Aid.

Certified in Child Protection

FAS Safe Pass and Manual Handling Courses

Full clean driving licence

I travelled to Australia for a month and to South Africa for three weeks. Whilst in South Africa I had personal meetings with Nelson Mandela and Archbishop
Desmond Tutu.

References
Mr. Patrick Tevlin (Eurospar / Centra Bayside) Tel: 0873126013
Mr. Peter Vallely (Heritage Buildings) Tel: 0878694493
Mr. John Duggan (Soul Kids) Tel: 0879321313