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Durkan Announces Planning Approval For £10million Finnebrogue Extension In Downpatrick
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has announced planning approval for a 10million extension for artisan food producer Finnebrogue...read more »
Durkan Congratulates Civic Trust Award Winners
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan today congratulated the Northern Ireland winners of the Civic Trust Awards...read more »
Durkan Announces £1.8million Funding Boost For Coastal Communities
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan today announced an estimated £1.8million funding boost over the next three years to regenerate coastal communities...read more »
Durkan Gives Green Light To Redevelop Former PSNI Station For Housing In North Belfast
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has recommended planning approval to redevelop a former PSNI Station in North Belfast for housing...read more »
Excavations At Carrickfergus Castle To Be Extended Until The End Of March 2014
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has announced an extension to the archaeological excavations at Carrickfergus Castle, Ireland's best preserved Anglo-Norman castle...read more »
Highest Levels Of Satisfaction From Users Of The Planning System In 14 Years - Durkan
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has welcomed a report that reveals the highest levels of satisfaction from users of the planning system since 2000...read more »
Durkan Gives Go-Ahead For £12million Transformation Of Scottish Mutual Building
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has recommended planning approval for a £12million conversion that will transform the iconic Scottish Mutual Building in Belfast...read more »
Farmers Called To Help Conserve Protected Grasslands - Durkan
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan is calling on farmers to apply for grazing and cropping rights on 250 acres of conservation land...read more »
Appointment Of New Chair To The Council For Nature Conservation And The Countryside
Environment Minister, Mark H Durkan, today announced the appointment of Dr Hilary Kirkpatrick as Chair to the Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside (CNCC)...read more »
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan today visited the Cruise Centre young driver road safety project in Derry
The Centre aims to provide young people who are interested in driving, with advice and training on road safety issues in a fun, professional and peer learning environment with a view...read more »
SDLP will not abandon people of the North West
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has pledged to fight any attempt to move approximately 80 civil servants job out of Derry, and revealed he is looking to place more public sector jobs in the maiden city...read more »
MLA Mark H Durkan invites Minister Kennedy to view 'disastrous' Glen Road traffic safety measures
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan today showed DRD Minister Danny Kennedy first hand why urgency is needed to remove traffic islands on Glen Road, which he says present a real danger to residents, pedestrians and drivers...read more »
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has met with key representatives from Derry City Centre to identify measures to boost economic growth in the city
DOE Planning has established a Retail Stakeholder Group in tandem with City Centre Initiative to bring together key organisations to discuss ways to tackle trading issues...read more »
Durkan Presents Road Safety Awards To Foyle Community
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan today acknowledged the valuable role the voluntary and community sector play in working to make our roads a safer place...read more »
Durkan Congratulates Foyle Parents And Friends Association
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has congratulated the Foyle Parents and Friends Association on its 50TH Birthday at an Event in Stormont...read more »
Durkan: 5% Completion Rate Shows Boiler Scheme Failing
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has said that the boiler replacement scheme must be revised so that it can meet high demand...read more »
Durkan: Still More Questions Than Answers On Future Of Housing
SDLP Social Development spokesperson Mark H Durkan has responded to a statement form Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland in the Assembly today on social
housing reform...read more »
Durkan: Action Needed To Tackle Suicide
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has responded to figures that suggest the suicide rate in the North is up by 100 per cent. Mr Durkan was speaking following a parliamentary debate on the issue in Westminster yesterday...read more »
Durkan Supports Introduction Of HPV Test
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has welcomed the announcement by the Health Minister Edwin Poots that a test for HPV has now been incorporated within the Cervical Cancer Screening Programme...read more »
Durkan Emphasises Importance Of Internet Safety
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has highlighted the importance of the need for increased measures to support and protect children Foyle...read more »
Durkan Welcomes Tenancy Deposit Scheme
SDLP Social Development spokesperson MLA Mark H Durkan has welcomed confirmation from the Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland that the Tenancy Deposit Scheme will be introduced...read more »
Durkan Delighted Radio One Big Weekend In Derry
SDLP MLA for Foyle, Mark H Durkan, has welcomed that Derry will be a venue for BBC Radio One's One Big Weekend...read more »
Eastwood: Equality and Human Rights provisions fundamental to welfare reform
SDLP MLA Colum Eastwood has highlighted the deficiencies in the Welfare Reform Bill. He was speaking along with his colleague Mark H Durkan in the Assembly today regarding the report of the Ad Hoc Committee set up to consider whether the provisions of the Welfare Reform Bill conform with the requirements for equality and human rights...read more »
Durkan: Executive Must Do More To Tackle Social Disadvantage?
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has urged the Minister for Social Development, Nelson McCausland to deal with the scourge of social disadvantage and fulfill the pledges set out in the Programme for Government...read more »
Durkan Welcomes Delay To DLA Reform
SDLP Social Development Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has welcomed news that DWP has delayed making changes to people?s DLA assessment...read more »
Durkan Urges Elderly To Avail Of Benefit Entitlements
SDLP Social Development spokesperson Mark H Durkan has welcomed the Make the Call campaign which seeks to help pensioners find out if they are missing out on benefits they may be entitled to...read more »
Durkan: Tourism vital to Derry?s Development
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has spoken about the potential for growth in tourism figures in Derry following 2013...read more »
Durkan concerned at online benefits barrier
SDLP Social Development Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has expressed his concerns that Universal Credit will be administered largely on the internet...read more »
Durkan: Construction Investment must become an Executive Priority
SDLP Social Development Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has argued that investment in the construction industry must become a priority for the Executive...read more »
Durkan Urges Minister To Defer Introduction Of Bedroom Tax
SDLP Social Development spokesperson Mark H Durkan MLA has criticised Minister Nelson McCausland for ruling out any proposal to defer the introduction of the ?Bedrooom Tax? or under-occupancy legislation from becoming law here...read more »
Durkan Calls For Improved Muscular Dystrophy Services
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has called on the Health Minister, Edwin Poots, to implement the recommendations of the McCollum Report into treatment of Muscular Dystrophy...read more »
Durkan Condemns Barbaric Attack On Elderly Women
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has condemned the actions of two thugs who committed a brutal attack on two elderly sisters in the Glen area of Derry in the early hours of this morning...read more »
Durkan Slams Minister Over Failure To Disclose Job Loss Figures
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has hit out at Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland for failing to inform the public about job losses flowing from the implementation of Universal Credit...read more »
Durkan: DETI Committee To Visit City Of Culture
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has welcomed the decision of the Enterprise Trade and Investment (?DETI?) Committee to visit Derry following the launch of the City of Culture Progamme at 12noon today...read more »
Durkan Welcomes Translink Investment At Drumahoe
SDLP Social Development spokesperson Mark H Durkan MLA has welcomed the announcement by the Department for Regional Development to extend the Drumahoe park and ride facility on the Glenshane Road near Derry...read more »
Durkan:?Food Banks A Lifeline For Many
SDLP Social Development spokesperson Mark H Durkan has praised the outstanding contribution of food bank providers...read more »
Durkan: Dissidents Will Not Deter Our City
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has criticised those responsible for a security alert in Derry following the discovery of two explosive devices near Derry City Council...read more »
Durkan Welcomes ?One Call? Service For Bereaved
SDLP Spokesperson for Social Development has welcomed the new ?one call? service to help bereaved relatives check if they are eligible for help with funeral costs...read more »
