Taoiseach predicts ‘significant’ ramping up of rapid-build houses to assist accommodation crisisA number of army barracks and other facilities ‘are being reconfigured’ to also provide accommodation, Micheál Martin saidTue Oct 25 2022 - 16:49
Victims and witnesses must go to Dublin for court as judges won’t travel to regions, Dáil toldMinister for Justice says judges can’t just be added when greater efficiencies could be found within the current structure as wellThu Oct 20 2022 - 20:15
‘Really concerning’ that Irish Water has no plan for 27 of 38 areas needing priority upgrading In wake of critical EPA report Minister says Ireland will reach EU average for treatment of raw sewage when Ringsend treatment plan is upgradedThu Oct 20 2022 - 20:08
Ex-ministers ‘swanning around’ Leinster House as lobbyists should lose access, Dáil hearsShorthall says ‘revolving door between politics and private business’ must endThu Oct 20 2022 - 19:16
Ryan defends Government approach to tackling energy poverty Minister denies providing direct cash payments to households amounts to charityThu Oct 20 2022 - 13:33
Poor fitness levels a growing problem in recruiting gardaí, Dáil hearsMinister says target of hiring 800 new members of force this year will not be metThu Oct 20 2022 - 12:03
Allowing sex offenders register at any divisional Garda station allows them go undetected, TD warnsDenis Naughten warns that much of the new legislation puts rights in hands of offenders rather than victimsWed Oct 19 2022 - 22:22
Government facilitating ‘cover-up of crimes and human rights abuses’, Dáil told as redress scheme is criticisedSurvivors of mother and baby homes could receive as little as €5,000 in redress schemeWed Oct 19 2022 - 19:10
Households could save €400 on energy if clocks do not go back, Dáil toldFine Gael TD says stopping change would result in reduced electricity and gas consumption at peak hoursWed Oct 19 2022 - 16:09
Dublin City Council must be ‘central driving force’ for rejuvenation of O’Connell StreetTaoiseach will consider a taskforce but warns it is ‘not a panacea’Wed Oct 19 2022 - 15:22
Call for immediate ban on disconnection of pay-as-you-go energy customersTaoiseach says charities, budgeting services have warned of further debt for some familiesWed Oct 19 2022 - 15:05
Senator ‘shocked’ by ‘intimidating’ reply from civil servant over tender documents Letter referred to Offices of Attorney General and Chief State Solicitor after it came into Gerard Craughwell’s possessionTue Oct 18 2022 - 21:35
Sinn Féin has ‘no policy’ on instigating legal actions, says Ó Broin Taoiseach corrects Dáil record over comments about RTÉ interview with Shane Ross regarding McDonald biographyTue Oct 18 2022 - 19:22
Concrete levy to be cut to 5% and delayed until September next yearMinister for Finance says charge, designed to cover cost of repairing building defects, will be in place ‘for the foreseeable future’Tue Oct 18 2022 - 17:56
Ban on evictions will be in place from start of November, Taoiseach tells Dáil Micheál Martin says local authorities have bought almost 650 homes where tenants on point of eviction because of property going for saleTue Oct 18 2022 - 17:24
Call for State to recognise existence of babies who die before 28 weeks of pregnancy‘Certificate of Life’ part of legislation to create non-statutory register for familiesThu Oct 13 2022 - 20:05
‘Cold’ Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme ‘aimed at reducing costs’ Minister for Children accused of ‘failing to learn’ from previous ‘debacles’ but O’Gorman says provisions avoid ‘re-traumatisation’ with tens of thousands more beneficiariesThu Oct 13 2022 - 17:31
Decision next week on extending rent tax credit to parents paying for students’ accommodationTánaiste accused by Sinn Féin of ‘abject failure’ to deal with housing crisis as students walk out of college classes in protestThu Oct 13 2022 - 14:44
Enough supports in place to stop any electricity cut offs during winter, says Michael McGrath Minister says Government acted ‘in very fair, generous way’ with €1.2bn social protection packageWed Oct 12 2022 - 19:20
Cost of mica and apartment defect repairs ‘will have to be met’ sometime, Minister saysMichael McGrath deflects questions on whether controversial concrete levy will be included in Finance Bill but says €5bn bill remainsWed Oct 12 2022 - 14:55
Employee gets final warning for being late due to unreliable Go-Ahead bus service, Dáil toldSinn Féin TD says Go-Ahead ‘seems to be recruiting some of the most delicate drivers’ as level of sick leave ‘disproportionate’Wed Oct 12 2022 - 14:52
Junior Cert results date ‘will not be known until next week’Minister for Education Norma Foley tells Dáil she could not give an exact date for releaseWed Oct 12 2022 - 06:54
Criticism of ‘outrageous’ inclusion of holiday homes in emergency energy credit schemeOpposition TDs say failure to target energy credits means Government will be paying to keep the lights on for some of Ireland’s richestTue Oct 11 2022 - 21:14
Creeslough: Dáil observes minute’s silence as tribute to ‘incalculable’ lossTaoiseach recalls stories of ‘the most extraordinary courage, commitment, heroism and love’ heard during visit to Co Donegal villageTue Oct 11 2022 - 19:24
‘Honour the promise’: Nursing home staff demand their pandemic paymentsMore than 2,000 letters urge Minister for Health to expedite Covid paymentTue Oct 11 2022 - 17:42
RTÉ and Sinn Féin deny party given access to never broadcast Shane Ross interview Broadcaster rejects suggestion that ‘a political party’ was allowed to listen to segment with author and former minister Shane RossTue Oct 11 2022 - 17:22
Taoiseach pledges to work with thalidomide survivors to resolve issues around supports ‘once and for all’ Micheál Martin will contact Irish Thalidomide Association about putting a mediation process in place following calls to ‘fix the stalemate’Fri Oct 07 2022 - 15:32
Recruitment drive aims to return National Symphony Orchestra to full strengthMinister wants orchestra and RTÉ choirs ‘not only to survive but to flourish’Fri Oct 07 2022 - 11:53
Senator calls for €3,000 ‘luxury emissions’ tax on private jets leaving Irish airportsSinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan criticises ‘outrageous carry-on’ of short flights by celebrities in SeanadThu Oct 06 2022 - 21:51
Ryan in talks with energy companies on protections for pay-as-you-go customersSinn Féin says 346,000 customers on these electricity meters have no protection from being cut offThu Oct 06 2022 - 19:19
Not a full house: Less than half of Senators turn up as House of Lords speaker addresses the Seanad Lord John McFall stresses need for co-operation between two governments as Northern Ireland Protocol Bill due for second reading in WestminsterThu Oct 06 2022 - 18:59
UK’s protocol legislation ‘best ignored for now’, says Coveney Bill unlikely to be passed ‘anytime soon’ but opportunity exists for progress without distraction over legislationThu Oct 06 2022 - 13:33
Local authorities criticised by junior minister over failure to buy unoccupied Garda stations for housing‘You wouldn’t think there’s a housing crisis in the country from the response of some of the local authorities’Wed Oct 05 2022 - 18:44
Need to prove domestic abuse to secure paid leave would make legislating ‘almost unworkable’, says VaradkarTD ‘absolutely appalled’ by Ibec raising concerns about paid leave for victims of domestic abuseWed Oct 05 2022 - 18:13
Ireland in ‘war time’ situation as Taoiseach warns of shock gas price increases in January Sinn Féin leader calls for moratorium on energy disconnections to start now and detail of measures to prevent pay-as-you-go customers being cut offWed Oct 05 2022 - 14:55
‘Great level of racism and hatred’ in Ireland, Seanad toldGovernment urged to ensure proposed hate crime legislation will apply to public representatives and local authoritiesTue Oct 04 2022 - 21:54
Cabinet approves plan for €600 electricity credit for all householdsGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan looking at ways to help consumers who ‘fall outside framework’ of energy creditsTue Oct 04 2022 - 19:24
Truss ‘adamant’ there will be elections in North if Executive not restored — Taoiseach Micheál Martin says negotiations between EU and Britain should be given ‘space’ as he warns against using language like ‘u-turn’Tue Oct 04 2022 - 18:36
Government claims broadening concrete levy would result in higher bank and interest chargesSF to table private member’s motion to scrap proposed levy and instead impose a levy on developers’ profitTue Oct 04 2022 - 15:41
Tánaiste says pay-as-you-go energy customers should be protected from disconnections this winterSolidarity TD warns that up to 200,000 households could be affected if moratorium does not extend to all electricity and gas consumersThu Sept 29 2022 - 20:51
Concrete blocks levy to add up to €1,600 to build costs, but controversial plan to remainTen per cent levy was announced as part of Budget 2023, but Opposition parties have called for it to be scrappedThu Sept 29 2022 - 20:04
Boy (13) had to wait seven years for formal autism diagnosis to get services, Dáil told Tánaiste suggests children with clear disabilities should receive services ahead of formal diagnosisThu Sept 29 2022 - 16:28
Concrete levy is needed to help ease ‘enormous outlay’ for mica redress - TaoiseachTánaiste says defective construction going to cost ‘hundreds of millions if not billions’Thu Sept 29 2022 - 16:17
Annual €500 rent tax credit may be boosted in coming years, Taoiseach tells FF meetingSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald warns budget rent tax credits will fuel hikes for tenantsWed Sept 28 2022 - 21:41
Taoiseach rejects Opposition claims that Budget 2023 is for ‘wealthy people’Opposition parties claim during Dáil debate that budget is ‘regressive’, a ‘sugar hit’ and ‘continues the cycle of failure’Wed Sept 28 2022 - 21:16
New legislation needed for defective buildings repair scheme, Minister saysNew interdepartmental group to be set up to bring proposals on how to address defects by the end of this yearWed Sept 28 2022 - 14:42
Dáil row over debate time on €6bn reserve fund allocation Budget 2023: Government introduced resolution with just two minutes of debate for each party and groupWed Sept 28 2022 - 06:40
Sinn Féin says Government treating lower-income workers as an ‘afterthought’Budget 2023: Doherty calls €500 tax credit for renters a ‘poor and pale imitation’ of their own planTue Sept 27 2022 - 20:24
Super wealthy will benefit from budget more than those on lower incomes, Dáil hears Budget 2023: Róisín Shortall says through tax cuts and energy supports, public representatives will benefit to the tune of €1,400Tue Sept 27 2022 - 19:12
Budget 2023: Tax credit for renters and a reduction in childcare fees in €11bn packageBudget 2023 measures include cost of living payments, welfare increases and extended free GP careTue Sept 27 2022 - 17:14
