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
Ireland must use its exchequer surplus wisely, says Donohoe as bumper budget announcedBudget 2023: Ministers announce €4.1bn package of once-off measures, alongside budgetary measures worth €6.9bnTue Sept 27 2022 - 15:30
Labour’s Ged Nash accuses pension providers of charging ‘scam’ fees to customersLouth TD tables Bill requiring trustees to supply clear and concise information about chargesFri Sept 23 2022 - 16:20
Budget 2023: People will see money in pockets and off bills ‘in weeks’Budget an opportunity to deal with high costs in childcare, healthcare, public transport and rents, says VaradkarThu Sept 22 2022 - 13:46
Government ‘worst in class’ for providing energy crisis supports, Pearse Doherty saysMinister for Finance says Sinn Féin’s yet to be published alternative budget ‘has more instalments than Star Wars’Thu Sept 22 2022 - 12:06
Taxi drivers given extension on 10-year age limit for vehiclesUp to 4,000 cars are granted reprieve amid global shortage of new carsThu Sept 22 2022 - 11:44
Violet-Anne Wynne makes history as first TD to bring her baby into DáilBaby sits placidly in her mother’s arms amid loud cheers and laughter in Dáil chamberWed Sept 21 2022 - 20:58
Irish Water criticised over information around ‘boil water’ notices and ‘do not consume’ warnings Second Minister raises shortcomings in communication with islanders off the west coast and in the Spiddal area of ConnemaraWed Sept 21 2022 - 20:51
Ceann Comhairle rejects Taoiseach’s claims about heckling in Dáil Micheál Martin said Opposition TDs were not being challenged over repeated interruptions of Ministers in HouseWed Sept 21 2022 - 14:09
Minister accuses Sinn Féin of following ‘Tory’ ideology with energy cap proposalDoherty says households in North have energy price certainty after UK government announced plans to limit billsWed Sept 21 2022 - 13:22
‘We don’t want to subsidise data centres’: targeted energy bill support planned for businesses Specific budget measures that would not benefit multinationals or data centres being drawn up as Varadkar signals possible wage subsidiesFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
Planning board salaries should be halved, says TD, amid allegations of impropriety Dáil debate on controversy surrounding An Bord Pleanála hears wages of board’s seven members amount to almost €1mThu Sept 15 2022 - 19:39
School transport scheme an ‘utter mess’, Dáil told Parents feel badly let down after thousands of children left without school transport, Sinn Féin TD saysThu Sept 15 2022 - 13:48
Irish hopes for billions under EU windfall tax proposals dashed Suggested commission measures likely to be put in place for just six months, rather than planned 12Thu Sept 15 2022 - 05:00
Clashes over how energy costs should be addressed as Dáil returnsMartin and McDonald unite in expression of sympathy over Queen Elizabeth but at odds over best way to support householdsWed Sept 14 2022 - 16:44
TD tells Dáil about his mother’s experience in mother and baby home‘It was extremely traumatic for my mother and my sister,’ says Gino KennyThu Nov 25 2021 - 21:16
Less than 50% of Cloverhill prisoners vaccinated against CovidFurther concerns about low vaccination rate in Castlerea PrisonThu Nov 25 2021 - 17:55
HSE achieves better outcomes than Britain’s NHS, Varadkar saysIreland’s health service too small for State’s ageing population, Tánaiste acknowledgesThu Nov 25 2021 - 17:46
Total of 277 cases of Covid-19 in prisons since pandemic began, Dáil toldSome 112 prisoners had already tested positive before committal, Helen McEntee saysThu Nov 25 2021 - 15:46
Tánaiste says 30,000 daily PCR capacity highest of pandemicEasier to get Garth Brooks tickets than PCR test appointment - DohertyThu Nov 25 2021 - 13:17
€500 annual grant for wigs on the way for those suffering hair loss from illnessTreatment benefit will be in place by end of May next year, Minister confirmsThu Nov 25 2021 - 11:43
80% of people are getting PCR test within 24 hours - DonnellyPeople refusing to wear mask on trains giving ‘two fingers’ to society, says TD in Dáil debateWed Nov 24 2021 - 21:35
TD says ‘urgent need’ for all children to be ‘informed by science, not religion’Teaching of sex education has been considered by three ministers, but still an issueWed Nov 24 2021 - 19:21
Politician frets over Lottery’s €19m jackpot rollover . . . the 47thTaoiseach notes FG TD’s ‘tenacity’ to ensure it could be you – sooner, rather than laterWed Nov 24 2021 - 17:26
State ‘can’t just dive into’ antigen testing, says TaoiseachMartin responds to Opposition charge of Coalition lacking urgency on introducing systemWed Nov 24 2021 - 15:21
Not possible to clip VAT on fuel due to EU rules, says TaoiseachSharp Dáil exchanges between McDonald and Martin amid Dublin truck demonstrationWed Nov 24 2021 - 14:44
Call for end to ‘all-out civil war’ in amateur boxingFG Senator says sport being damaged from grass roots to high performance levelsWed Nov 24 2021 - 12:58
‘Dark history’ of mother and baby homes ‘very much part of our present’, Dáil toldRedress scheme should cover 100% of the survivors, SF spokeswoman on children saysTue Nov 23 2021 - 21:19
Smoky coal from NI delivered ‘unchallenged’ to homes in smokeless zones, Dáil toldTD demands ‘major clamp-down’ on cross-Border sales and ‘illegal advertising’Tue Nov 23 2021 - 19:37
‘You can’t get a PCR test for love nor money’ – Opposition TDs criticise delaysTaoiseach defends in Dáil the Government’s approach to fourth wave of pandemicTue Nov 23 2021 - 16:12
No decision made on subsidising antigen tests, Donohoe saysHolohan has warned incorrect use of antigen tests could lead to increased infectionsTue Nov 23 2021 - 15:47
Ethiopia could fracture amid ‘famine-like conditions’, Coveney saysMinister unsure if it will be possible to visit Addis Ababa in two weeksThu Nov 18 2021 - 22:12
