I am delighted to announce that the Planning Application was Granted  by South Dublin County Council for the All-Weather Football Facility that I initiated. We will now re-engage with the Department of Sport for the Capital Grant. I am confident that when built, this facility will serve the overall well-being needs, over many years to come, of over 1,200 Lucan boys, girls and senior players in all 5 Lucan Soccer Clubs, as well as assisting in bringing more success on the field of play. I thank and congratulate all 5 …

Speaking on the Late Late Show Deputy Derek Keating, in response to Professor Crown’s proposal to introduce a “liberal response to the heroin, cocaine and cannabis problem in Ireland by medicalising the problem, completely and totally rejects this proposal.
This is fully understandable and would be absolutely typical from a person with a medical expertise and background such as Professor John Crown who is an Oncologist Consultant at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, but the drugs issue in Ireland is more to do with crime, anti-social behaviour, the personality of individuals and …

NEW LUCAN POST OFFICE: I am pleased to confirm, following the campaign I initiated, a NEW POST OFFICE has now been approved for Lucan. I have pursued this since being elected to Dáil Éireann. The new Post Office will compliment the existing and established Post Offices in Lucan village and Dodsboro that continue to provide excellent services. I am delighted to have delivered this new service for ALL Lucan residents, as a result of the massive support I received from thousands of residents, the details of which I presented to …

When this Coalition entered Government over 2 years ago, I had no illusion about the task we faced in restoring the country’s finances. Our economy had been devastated by the dreadful economic mismanagement of the previous Government.

Keating says “I have concluded that the Presidential office is undervalued in this State and could be developed into a more exciting part of the Oireachtas. This is best achieved by reducing the term of office to 5 years.”
On the eve of the Constitutional Convention meeting in Malahide, Convention Member Deputy Derek Keating, Fine Gael, calls for the Presidential term of office to be reduced

“Job Creation is the Government’s top priority and this is reflected in the Legislative Programme approved by Cabinet today. The Industrial Development (Micro-Enterprise & Small Business) Bill and Workplace Relations Bill together with Bills on Consumer & Competition, Employment Permits and Co-operative Societies will help improve job creation conditions. Minister Bruton and his Department have already introduced a vast amount of legislation designed to set the conditions for job creation and the Bills announced today are the next phase of this progress.

Deputy Derek Keating today welcomed his appointment to the Convention on the Constitution to consider important matters and to make recommendations as its sees fit and to report to the Oireachtas on those recommendations.

Fine Gael Dublin Mid West Deputy and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Education, Derek Keating, has welcomed an increase in the staffing numbers to deal with the backlog in processing third level grants which are leading to some students experiencing financial difficulties.

Fine Gael Dublin TD, has reminded people that they only have a short time to complete the switch to a digital a TV signal Local TD Derek Keating was speaking at an information meeting attended by Minister Pat Rabbitte in Rathcoole today following reports that up to 300,000 households have yet to make the switch, which he described as very worrying.