Darragh O’Brien

As so often in politics, many ministers have been appointed not on the basis of ability or record, but due to where they live or how many votes they won

Simon Harris takes Foreign Affairs, while Helen McEntee moves to Education, making way for Jim O’Callaghan at Justice

What was essentially a pro forma day has descended into a fiasco

Fianna Fáil’s Mary Butler and Fine Gael’s Martin Heydon are among TDs tipped for promotion

Housing charity seeks ministerial consent for transfer of properties to relevant local authority

Who is likely to end up where after the confabulations are done and dusted?

Speculation intensifying six days ahead of formal appointment of new Cabinet next Wednesday

Levels notified mark 84% increase on previous year

Some 4,658 children are in emergency accommodation as Darragh O’Brien says addressing crisis is ‘an absolute priority’

Case not yet been made to add planning officials to Critical Skills Occupation List, says Department of Enterprise

State scheme aims to buy houses from landlords in cases where their plans to sell up could result in homelessness for tenants

Incoming Independent TD for Longford-Westmeath Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran among group of local representatives backing challenge

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien introduced regulations last year allowing some asylum seeker accommodation to be classed as exempt development

Fianna Fáil's outgoing Minister for Housing has been in politics for the last 20 years

Election 2024: Sinn Féin’s Ann Graves will have an uphill battle if she is to take a seat in the constituency

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council drops planning enforcement case against developer Bartra following legal advice

HSE has ‘completely disrespected’ Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance service, council chief Richard Shakespeare says

Latest Irish Times/B&A Ipsos poll shows sharp drop in support for Fine Gael and modest boost for Sinn Féin

Housing is a central issue in this election, from building targets and government supports for prospective house buyers to rising rents and building defects

Election 2024 has the potential to be the highest-spending election of recent years

While plans differ between some parties on housing, the cost of living and taxes, all of them agree on a few basic tenets around housing

Election 2024: Third seat in Dublin Fingal West constituency likely to be fight between Greens, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael

Letter to ministers Darragh O’Brien and Roderic O’Gorman warned movements are having ‘devastating impact’ on children’s rights

Labour and Sinn Féin claim scheme has inflationary effect, increasing price of housing for first time buyers

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien wrote to Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin taking aim at the party’s key affordable housing policy and Mr Ó Broin responded

The Coalition did not want to set targets it could not meet within the duration of the current Government – although Ministers would likely contest this

Taoiseach Simon Harris is expected to set the wheels in motion for the next general election on Friday, with votes to be cast three weeks later, on Friday, November 29th

No prosecutions, no financial costs, no names and damn all shame

From Friday, homes worth €515,000, up from €450,000, will now be eligible for the initiative, as well as apartments or town houses worth €385,000

Darragh O’Brien says it is a ‘great frustration’ that many companies to blame have folded and set back up again

First group of apartment owners to be reimbursed for fire safety and remediation works already carried out

From public transport and homelessness to flooding and small businesses, there’s a long list of concerns in west Cork

Broadcasters and the Electoral Commission have called for it to be abolished

Darragh O’Brien clearly thinks there is no downside to him claiming credit for bringing the Open Championship to Portmarnock but it’s not a great look in the middle of the housing crisis

21,634 dwellings completed in the first three quarters of the year, down over 3% on same period last year

Fianna Fáil TD says keeping Help to Buy and the First Home schemes would be red line issues for party in any coalition talks

As with an extra 1,000 gardaí proposed by the Dublin City Taskforce, many solutions offered for the capital are in the realm of magical thinking

Five months and a lot of fanfare later, we’re back to where we started

Taoiseach indicates his preference for a Friday election date with November 29th mooted as possibility

Department of Housing cost study assessed cost of delivering four different building types in the Greater Dublin Area