School voluntary contributions are ‘fees in disguise’ and should be banned - LabourSenator calls for universal payment for school clothes, footwear and free booksTue Aug 13 2019 - 20:30
Shane Ross has ‘biggest bloody SUV in Leinster House’Minister defends climate-friendly driving claims and says he is trialing electric vehiclesFri Aug 09 2019 - 20:50
Just two Cabinet Ministers using environmentally-friendly vehiclesFF TD John Lahart says Government wants people to change ‘yet their own house is not remotely in order’Fri Aug 09 2019 - 02:58
Pressure now on colposcopy clinics following CervicalCheck crisisClinical need will determine access to clinics as smear test backlog to be cleared in weeksFri Aug 09 2019 - 01:18
Citizens’ assembly on gender to be running by end of OctoberTender process to commission polling company to select 99 voters on electoral registerThu Aug 08 2019 - 13:46
CervicalCheck sends letter with incorrect test results to 400 womenPatients waiting six months told they are HPV negative when actually HPV positiveThu Aug 08 2019 - 02:31
Varadkar, Harris meet cervical cancer campaigners about formal apologyTaoiseach expected to acknowledge State’s role in repeated failures, errors in DáilWed Aug 07 2019 - 17:34
Cervical smear tests contract given without proper assessmentToo few people in CervicalCheck managing too many projects, rapid review findsTue Aug 06 2019 - 22:03
Q&A: What is the latest CervicalCheck controversy?Technical problem uncovered by woman who questioned delay in getting her resultsTue Aug 06 2019 - 22:00
HSE keen to ‘put women first’ after latest CervicalCheck controversyResults of more than 4,000 smear test not affected by ‘major communications failure’Tue Aug 06 2019 - 19:54
HSE criticised over ‘abysmal example’ during world breastfeeding weekDocument proposes encouraging employees to breastfeed until child’s second birthdayTue Aug 06 2019 - 10:29
Catholic schools can still ask questions on religion despite new lawSection preventing schools asking questions will not come into effect for two yearsThu Aug 01 2019 - 21:19
‘Hostility’ between Irish, UK governments must be addressed, Dáil hears‘We have to look at bigger picture, time beyond Brexit,’ FF’s Lisa Chambers saysFri Jul 12 2019 - 20:45
Gardaí permitted to give evidence at Troubles-era inquests in NorthBill rushed through Dáil, Seanad on cooperation with PSNI, UKFri Jul 12 2019 - 16:35
CervicalCheck: HSE says it was assured in February letters would be sentGPs to receive test results from today following IT glitch as HSE directly contacts ‘small number’ of 800 womenFri Jul 12 2019 - 12:47
Michael Ring warns Ministers not to treat his department as a ‘soft touch’Minister says other departments are foisting issues onto Department of Rural DevelopmentFri Jul 12 2019 - 01:00
RCSI set to get university status 235 years after it started training surgeonsReforming legislation also increases powers of regulator over English language schoolsThu Jul 11 2019 - 20:36
Court of Appeal to get six new judges after Bill passed by DáilDistrict Court judges’ retirement age to increase from 65 to 70Thu Jul 11 2019 - 20:31
Psychiatric nurses’ overtime ban shows issues remain – CoveneyTánaiste says PNA has been patient with Government’s slow progress on resolutionThu Jul 11 2019 - 17:10
Tributes paid in Dáil to ‘giants of public life’ Brendan Grace, Noel WhelanTwo very different men ‘both made enormous contributions’ to Irish lifeThu Jul 11 2019 - 13:31
Landmark legislation makes inquests into maternal deaths mandatoryFamily of women whose deaths became high profiles cases observed as Bill completedThu Jul 11 2019 - 11:05
Beef deal concerns ‘pale into insignificance’ in event of no-deal BrexitTaoiseach says State will vote against Mercosur deal ‘if it is not in Ireland’s interests’Wed Jul 10 2019 - 20:50
Judicial appointments Bill needs ‘substantial work’, Minister saysBill unexpectedly passes committee stage after more than 100 hours of Seanad debateWed Jul 10 2019 - 20:21
McHugh to bring memo on abuse scheme to Cabinet next week‘We failed as a State and as a society,’ education minister Joe McHugh tells DáilWed Jul 10 2019 - 18:25
Taoiseach has ‘full confidence’ in Kehoe after navy service claimsVaradkar defends Kehoe as FF leader claims military had ‘lost all confidence’ in himWed Jul 10 2019 - 15:48
Taoiseach will not ask Kehoe to withdraw ‘inaccurate’ Naval Service claimsVaradkar says two vessels unlikely to be back in service when maintenance completedWed Jul 10 2019 - 15:48
Taoiseach withdraws Dáil remark about ‘sinning priest’ MartinVaradkar said remarks ‘caused offence to people I never intended to offend’Wed Jul 10 2019 - 14:31
Bill to be introduced with rising scale of speeding penaltiesMinister will also consider requiring car manufacturers to put instal ’speed limiters’Wed Jul 10 2019 - 08:05
Taoiseach apologises to victims of child sexual abuse in schoolsPayments to be made to 13 appellants and ex-gratia scheme will be re-openedTue Jul 09 2019 - 23:01
Ireland could ‘frustrate’ South American countries in beef deal, Creed saysMinister repeats claims they could ‘thwart, limit, frustrate’ South American countriesTue Jul 09 2019 - 21:17
Lobbying of Taoiseach adviser by former government press secretary raised in DáilBríd Smith withdraws claim Leo Varadkar told ‘deliberate lies’ on climate change commitmentTue Jul 09 2019 - 18:26
Hospitals lost almost 19,000 bed days in June as discharge of 599 patients delayedLengthy stays due to lack of home-help hours, care packages, respite support, says TDSun Jul 07 2019 - 21:09
€6m EU funding for Irish fishing suspended in ‘hostile’ rowEU Commission to take infringement proceedings against Ireland on fishery penaltiesSat Jul 06 2019 - 02:00
Eir offer would ‘jettison essential conditions’ to protect State, rural usersMinister challenges Opposition on safeguards they would abandon for reduced costThu Jul 04 2019 - 22:24
Varadkar apologises for ‘sinning priest’ comment‘I have offended a lot of people...I do apologise and I am going to withdraw the remarks’Thu Jul 04 2019 - 20:44
Bill on judicial misconduct and sentencing guidelines passes DáilLandmark legislation first proposed 20 years ago, dealt with by Dáil in less than two hoursThu Jul 04 2019 - 19:31
Defence Forces treated differently because they cannot strike, Howlin saysHowlin hits out at decision not to allow pay commission examine soldiers’ core payThu Jul 04 2019 - 17:23
Government welcomes ‘good bits’ of Mercosur beef dealDoherty rejects claims Phil Hogan being made ‘scapegoat’ in beef dealThu Jul 04 2019 - 16:47
Taoiseach compares FF leader to ‘secretly sinning priest’ in Dáil rowMartin tells Varadkar not to be ‘petty, silly or idiotic’ in clashes over Dunkettle InterchangeThu Jul 04 2019 - 10:16
Government denies it is at odds with Michael Creed over beef dealMinister for Agriculture has vowed to ‘dismantle’ EU-Mercosur agreementThu Jul 04 2019 - 01:00
The missing: Bill ends seven-year wait for declaration of deathBill passed to allow relatives deal with estates where evidence shows death almost certainWed Jul 03 2019 - 21:44
Ireland has lowest rate of home-ownership since 1970s, Dáil toldMicheál Martin claims Government’s ‘litany of failures’ have doubled child homelessnessWed Jul 03 2019 - 18:58
Creed pledges to ‘frustrate and thwart’ beef deal as it currently standsHumphreys says impact of Brexit will be key to economic assessment of MercosurWed Jul 03 2019 - 15:46
‘Majority of greyhound owners abusive towards animals’, TD claimsMinister of State to meet chair and board of Irish Greyhound Board to discuss dog welfare issuesTue Jul 02 2019 - 21:58
Creed insists EU-Mercosur agreement is not a ’done deal’Trade deal could be ‘death knell’ for Irish beef sector, FF leader saysTue Jul 02 2019 - 21:20
HSE records €116.2m overspend in first four months of 2019Minister says costs of acute hospitals, medical card and treatment abroad schemes to blameTue Jul 02 2019 - 21:17
Call for 1% cap on ‘unsustainable’ rent increases for three yearsMinister Eoghan Murphy says rents still too high and time needed for measures to workTue Jul 02 2019 - 19:04
Brussels-bound Mick Wallace becomes emotional in last address to DáilTDs, Senator say their farewells to Leinster House on last day in OireachtasFri Jun 28 2019 - 08:52
Call for boycott of US embassy July 4th celebrations ‘very divisive’Labour Senator asks politicians not to attend over Trump’s handling of migrationThu Jun 27 2019 - 21:52
Some TDs only want soldiers confined to barracks or ‘shovelling snow’, Minister claimsPaul Kehoe defends Defence Forces participation in EU battle group approved by DáilThu Jun 27 2019 - 21:48
