Schools urged to be sensitive to costs on familiesDepartment cannot micromanage individual schools, Minister saysThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Employers to get subsidy for taking on long-term joblessBruton defends Government policy on employment after being accused of ‘failing young people’Wed Jul 03 2013 - 12:09
How TDs voted on Protection of Life During Pregnancy BillFour FG TDs defied whipWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
13 of Fianna Fáil’s 19 TDs vote against abortion legislationLargest turnout for vote since Government formedWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
Shortall wants ‘sunset clause’ in abortion legislationBill an ‘Irish solution to an Irish problem’ without another referendum, says Independent TDMon Jul 01 2013 - 22:44
Votes on abortion Bill expected to begin in DáilKenny rules out removal of threat of suicide from Protection of Life During Pregnancy legislationMon Jul 01 2013 - 16:48
Creighton to vote with her conscience on abortionDoherty rejects Minister’s claim that abortion issue dominated by group thinkMon Jul 01 2013 - 09:32
Trafficking Bill to tackle forced begging and domestic servitudeAlmost 180 cases in the past six years but State has not yet prosecuted anyone, says Fianna FailFri Jun 28 2013 - 17:06
Timmins to vote against abortion BillFine Gael TD for Wicklow to join two others and break Government ranksFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00
Banks can no longer ‘kick the can down the road’ on mortgage crisis, says MinisterCentral Bank code on mortgage arrears a ‘charter for home repossessions’, FF saysFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00
‘Slopping out’ to end in Cork prisonVictorian practice o to end with the development of a new jail with in-cell sanitationThu Jun 27 2013 - 20:29
Fine Gael’s Timmins to oppose abortion Bill over suicide clauseMinister for Education says days of dominant Catholic Church dictating governent policy are overThu Jun 27 2013 - 13:17
Mortgage code holds 'no hope' for many in arrears, Dáil hearsProcess has to be engaged in for families' and country's recovery, Minister saysThu Jun 27 2013 - 12:24
UN ’triple lock’ mechanism to be reviewed in Defence green paperFianna Fail warns against Fine Gael history of opposition to neutralityThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:01
Coalition partners at odds on abortionSharp divisions between FG and Labour backbenchers over controversial BillWed Jun 26 2013 - 22:00
Fine Gael TD sharply criticises Labour over abortion stanceO Riordain says abortion Bill ‘should start debate on the removal of Article 40.3.3’Wed Jun 26 2013 - 10:48
Unconstitutional to include fatal foetal abnormalities in legislation, Taoiseach saysTD tells Dáil it is ’barbaric’ that 1,500 women faced with decision to travel for terminationWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Autism funding for Dublin North based on HSE recommendation, Minister insistsReilly defends decision over €300,000 fundingWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Quinn reverses special needs cutMinister moves to reassure parents over education reformsWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Details of Magdalen laundries compensation scheme expected this weekWomen want upfront rather than staged paymentsMon Jun 24 2013 - 01:00
More children and same funds, but no cuts – that’s officialFianna Fáil education spokesman Charlie McConalogue in an accusatory moodFri Jun 21 2013 - 01:00
Special needs resource teaching funding stays at €1.3bn but student numbers upMost vulnerable in society targeted for Government savings in education, FF claimsFri Jun 21 2013 - 01:00
TDs should be given incentive to vote for end to Seanad, says Labour’s Robert Dowds‘Strong package of parliamentary reform’ should be on the the agenaFri Jun 21 2013 - 01:00
Gilmore stance on special needs resources raises hacklesFunding and staff allocation not cut, Tánaiste insists in DáilThu Jun 20 2013 - 13:53
Flanagan attacks Coalition’s Dáil reform effortsTD in wide-ranging criticism of every aspect of Dáil’s operationThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Kenny labels Daly remarks ‘disgraceful’Independent TD critical of ‘unprecedented slobbering’ over the Obama family’s visitThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Daly attacks ‘slobbering’ over ObamasTaoiseach rejects claim Ireland ‘a nation of pimps, prostituting ourselves in return for a pat on the head’Wed Jun 19 2013 - 12:35
Fine Gael TD voices concern over Seanad abolitionMitchell says absence of Seanad, reduced Dáil and strong executive will mean less accountabilityWed Jun 19 2013 - 01:49
No evidence to link deaths by suicide of soldiers to anti-malarial drug Lariam, Dáil toldSoldiers’ suicide rates higher before prescribing of drug began, Minister saysWed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
John Halligan TD says church is ‘in no position to lecture on rights’Bishops criticised for failing to condemn harrassment of TDs by ‘pro-life mob’Thu Jun 13 2013 - 22:04
Shatter to meet Garda Commissioner and OmbudsmanCommissioner’s response expected within days to Garda Ombudsman criticismsThu Jun 13 2013 - 20:23
Catholic Church has no right to be ‘State’s moral compass’, Dáil hearsTánaiste says church has every right to express its view but its comments on abortion legislation are ‘exaggerated’Thu Jun 13 2013 - 12:13
Banking ‘fat cats’ spare their own pensions but ‘savage’ workers’ fund at Permanent TSBBank officials will lose between 50% and 70% of their pensions, FF saysThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:33
Taoiseach says he has been branded a ‘murderer’ for his stanceEnda Kenny tells Dáil he is Taoiseach who happens to be Catholic rather than Catholic TaoiseachThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:30
Taoiseach tells Dáil he is ‘a Catholic but not a Catholic Taoiseach’Taoiseach receives plastic foetuses, medals, scapulars, letters in blood over abortion rowWed Jun 12 2013 - 12:11
Department of Social Protection not a 'soft touch' for fraud or abuse, Minister warnsState can take bank savings or earnings of ‘overpaid’ social welfare recipients with new Dáil powersWed Jun 12 2013 - 06:52
Just 3 per cent of homeowners have sought property tax deferral, says NoonanIt will take more than 125 years of property tax to pay off banking debt, according to SFWed Jun 12 2013 - 01:04
Councillors confirm Keegan as Dublin city managerHe takes up the €190,000 post in SeptemberTue Jun 11 2013 - 01:00
Sewage plant to serve a million people but ‘not one house’ in Fingal , FF claimsPlan is an “absolute disaster” waiting to happen, senator saysMon Jun 10 2013 - 21:52
Reconciliation forum would be ‘pointless’, says Magdalene laundries survivor groupGovernment must publish report in full without any further delay in wake of leaksMon Jun 10 2013 - 10:45
Heated exchanges in Dáil over legislation to allow for public sector pay cutsULA TD Clare Daly accuses Government of ‘treachery’Fri May 31 2013 - 01:00
Crèches in RTE exposè will not be allowed to place JobBridge internsGovernment accused of promoting 'yellow-pack' childcare jobsThu May 30 2013 - 12:38
Assisted suicide law will not be changed‘We all have a right to demand a dignified life but we also have a right to a dignified and peaceful death’Thu May 30 2013 - 01:00
Funding will be cut from creches which breach regulations, Tanaiste warnsGovernment website offers “yellow-pack” childcare placements for €50 a week, TD saysThu May 30 2013 - 01:00
Private sector must engage on climate change issue, says UN expertUN special representative for disaster risk reduction Margareta Wahlström said the private sector in most countries was responsible for 80 per cent of all investmentWed May 29 2013 - 23:35
Government defeats motion of no confidence in Minister for JusticeColleagues mount stout defence while McGrath renews challenge for Shatter to answer questions on Garda checkpoint controversyWed May 29 2013 - 19:30
Shatter tells Dáil of regret over Wallace commentsMinister accused of using private and confidential information for his own political advantageTue May 28 2013 - 20:23
Ruairí Quinn admits Susi grant system failuresMinister for Education promises not to “take my eye off the ball” this yearTue May 28 2013 - 01:04
TV licence fee evasion level 16%, says RabbitteMinister for Communications says 42,000 people have declared they have no televisionMon May 27 2013 - 01:00
Noonan urges caution on credit dealsFour nation consumer campaign targets 18 to 35 year-oldsSun May 26 2013 - 11:54
