Move comes amid wider plans to stem legal actions that can hold up projects as part of accelerating infrastructure plan

President is due to meet Taoiseach and may deliver an address to the Houses of the Oireachtas

Dublin city councillors proposed to strip former Israeli president’s name from Rathgar park

Government criticised for ‘delays and delays and delays’ on legislation banning trade with illegal settlements

OPW says €21,000 annual rent for refurbished state property was never reviewed between 2018 and 2025

The Office of Public Works - which is under a legal obligation to deliver a building for the project - appeared before the Dáil’s spending watchdog

Latest steps include new restrictions both on family reunifications and citizenship grants

Victims of convicted sex offender hopeful excercise will lead to more formal inquiry

Government was supposed to update medium-term expenditure plan last summer but still hasn’t done so

PAC chair criticises ‘failures’ at Department of Culture as findings recommends stronger oversight

People seeking international protection face paying up to 40 per cent of their weekly income to fund the cost of State accommodation

Report by Dáil watchdog comes after botched IT project at Arts Council and separate issue with X-ray scanner at National Gallery

Senior party figures lament former minister’s departure but back Simon Harris as natural fit for role

Fine Gael TD set to take one of the most senior jobs at World Bank

Yates worked as commentator during presidential election after providing undisclosed coaching to failed candidate Jim Gavin