Motions for Discussion at YFG National Conference 2012

One motion for discussion at YFG National Conference 2012 will be officially announced every day here, on Twitter, and on Facebook.

LAOIS YFG*: YFG proposes that an incentive for young farmers be introduced by increasing the number of training places in agricultural colleges.

UCD YFG*: YFG approves of the process of fracking as can it can prove a viable energy source in Ireland for the foreseeable future.

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Nominations for YFG National Executive

The following candidates have been nominated (and are interested in accepting the nomination) to contest elections to National Executive.

The voting will be held in Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, in the Egan Suite, between 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Saturday 18th February. Counting of the votes will take place the following day at 11.30 a.m.

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YOUNG FINE GAEL NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012

Young Fine Gael National Conference will take place on the 17th to the 19th of February in the Bridge House Hotel Tullamore County Offaly. 

The following elections will take place at the National Conference:

There shall be ten elected members of the National Executive.

The President will be directly elected by a vote of all members present and eligible to vote.

The Vice-President will be directly elected by a vote of all members present and eligible to vote.

Eight ordinary members of the National Executive shall be elected.

Four of the ordinary members shall be elected from a National Constituency Panel where all members present and eligible to vote may vote.

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Speech: “Ireland in Europe” Minister Lucinda Creighton

For our grandparent’s generation, Europe was a no-brainer. For the originators of the European concept, the rationale was clear. All of them had suffered greatly – and witnessed unimaginable suffering – during World War II. You have heard this before and probably don’t need me to remind you.

But it is extraordinary. People who had seen the worst in human terms were prepared to believe the best of their fellow men. The nationalism which had caused two world wars within thirty five years would have to be suppressed for the greater good. Sovereignty would be pooled, and in being shared, it would be increased.

But since then there is no doubt that the concept of the European project has lost much of its public appeal, for which we can place some blame on the generation which ran the Union – our parents. The European Union has sadly lost some of its ability to engage on a political level with so many of its citizens. To some, it seems to be a series of closed doors; committee rooms full of indistinguishable suits and it appears to have lost the ability to protect its citizens.

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