Pregnant Irish women get ‘compassion’ in UKIndependent TD Catherine Murphy asks what would happen if section dealing with suicide was excludedThu Jul 11 2013 - 02:40
‘Big Bang’ change needed to make fares fair for Greystones commuters, Dáil hearsGreystones hould be treated the same as Bray and Sandymount travellers, says TDThu Jul 11 2013 - 01:00
Fine Gael rebel Walsh in appeal to TaoiseachGalway West TD wants Kenny to accommodate opponents of abortion legislation within partyWed Jul 10 2013 - 23:39
Government accused of ‘fiddling’ over pensionsMorally wrong to force workers to pay into scheme but get no pension, Taoiseach saysWed Jul 10 2013 - 12:31
Labour TD 'mistakenly' votes against Government on abortionClare TD Michael McNamara will not lose party whipWed Jul 10 2013 - 10:57
Shatter insists mortgage legislation will not “open the floodgates” for repossessionsThreshold chairwoman calls for urgent review of mortgage code of conductWed Jul 10 2013 - 01:00
Alan Dukes is nobody’s ‘lapdog’ Taoiseach insistsBank directors not acting in public interest but in political interest, Adams claimsWed Jul 10 2013 - 01:00
Taoiseach willing to meet hunger striker protesting against property taxCo Meath man has lost 29 lbs after 22 days on strike, Waterford TD tells DáilWed Jul 10 2013 - 01:00
Alan Dukes ‘is nobody’s lapdog’, says KennyTaoiseach rejects ‘lapdogs’ not ‘watchdog’ claims about public interest directors of banksTue Jul 09 2013 - 16:56
Treatment should be based on medical evidence not ‘political considerations’Psychiatrist says Creighton clinical pathway programme in line with current practiceMon Jul 08 2013 - 10:45
New party grouping may not give Fine Gael rebels speaking rights in the DáilThere can only be one technical group under the current standing ordersMon Jul 08 2013 - 10:40
Time Lord fails to see the light in Broughan’s BillBrighter evenings proposal does exactly what it says on the order paperSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:06
No need to legislate for brighter evenings – just get up an hour earlier, says ShatterBenefits of change: fewer road deaths, less depression and reduced energy costs, says TDSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
Parliamentary inquiry the right forum to question Anglo chiefs, says TánaisteSF’s McDonald calls for explanation on Dukes’s ‘singing dumb’ about existence of Anglo tapesFri Jul 05 2013 - 01:00
Big rise in private hospital bed charges moves closerMinister defends changes and says Government believes they make senseThu Jul 04 2013 - 20:32
Cromwell invoked over disrupted property auctionIndependent TD rails disrupted Allsop Space auction at Shelbourne Hotel as ‘blood money’Thu Jul 04 2013 - 17:34
McDonald queries Dukes' knowledge of Anglo tapesSF deputy leader asks why bank chairman chose to ‘sing dumb’Thu Jul 04 2013 - 12:09
No cuts in special needs assistant hours, Quinn insistsMinister rejects claims of cuts in special needs assistant hours from SeptemberThu Jul 04 2013 - 10:23
Home repossessions Bill passed in DáilMinister for Justice Alan Shatter rejects a number of opposition amendmentsThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:11
Quarter of families had members emigrate in last two years, TD saysMattie McGrath calls for Minister to be appointed to deal with unemploymentThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
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
13 of Fianna Fáil’s 19 TDs vote against abortion legislationLargest turnout for vote since Government formedWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
How TDs voted on Protection of Life During Pregnancy BillFour FG TDs defied whipWed 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
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
Timmins to vote against abortion BillFine Gael TD for Wicklow to join two others and break Government ranksFri 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
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
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
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
