Minister signals Coalition may shelve divisive housing scheme

Strategic housing development enables developers proceed directly to the planning board

Restaurants can continue with takeaway service for rest of year – Darragh O’Brien

Council fees for using street furniture outside hotels, restaurants and pubs also waived

An Bord Pleanála criticised for delay in online planning system

System still not in place, five years after Government housing strategy pledge

ESRI officer defends comments on housing scheme amid Government pushback

Conor O’Toole faces questioning by housing committee over shared-equity plan concerns

Mother and baby homes report did not have ‘level of workmanship’ needed, Seanad hears

Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers calls for commission members to answer questions

Miriam Lord: Seanad sits in Dáil chamber but still has that vacant look

News of Seanad’s return has heartsick country reaching for the tonic

Writ moved for Seanad byelection, likely to be held in spring

Independent Victor Boyhan calls on clerk to notify Local Government Minister of vacancy

Calls for mother and baby homes legislation to be given extra time for debate rejected

Claims ’bogus’ that legislation needs to rushed through Seanad - McDowell

Judicial appointments Bill can be revived by next government - Ross

Judiciary and politicians who opposed controversial legislation welcome its lapsing with dissolution of Dáil

Construction work can take two years to begin despite ‘fast-track’ system

Strategic housing development system ‘an affront on democracy’, committee told

Dún Laoghaire harbour accounts must be published, says Senator

Former harbour company director says council must not be saddled with €38m debt

Green Party set to have FF, FG support as writ moved calling for Seanad byelection

No date set but ‘no appetite in Government’ to delay election to replace Grace O’Sullivan

Miriam Lord: Scuttling things in the Dáil bars

A rat in TDs’ midst; Shane Ross’s birthday; Dr Reilly’s tie; hands, knees and boomps-a-daisy

Judicial appointments Bill needs ‘substantial work’, Minister says

Bill unexpectedly passes committee stage after more than 100 hours of Seanad debate

Orphanage owners apologise for ‘tone deaf’ naming decision

Decision to rename luxury development taken after outcry from Bird’s Nest residents

Calls for The Orphanage development in Dún Laoghaire to be renamed

Institution’s former residents say ‘provocative’ name should revert to The Bird’s Nest

Former orphanage reinvented as co-living space – called The Orphanage

Historic Dún Laoghaire institution to offer ‘five-star’ rentals at €1,500 per month

Long is not short of Senators to help with her canvass

BusConnects, rural broadband and property tax are some of the issues that keep cropping up at Dublin doorsteps

Government may attempt to guillotine judicial reform bill again

Bid to curtail debate on Bill defeated by 26 votes to 24 in the Seanad

Horan breaks new ground as GAA president addresses Seanad

Central place of the GAA in Irish life reflected in the historic invitation

Dún Laoghaire Harbour company ‘a gift and a jewel’ for locals

Minister for Transport Shane Ross rejects claim of €33 million in liabilities

Controversial Road Traffic Bill passed by Seanad and now goes to President

Upper House takes just two hours in total on legislation after weeks of filibustering in Dáil

‘Three strikes’ policy on mobile phones in schools proposed

Minister says that Independent’s legislation ‘smacks of top-down approach’

Seanad ends €20 fee councillors pay for planning application submissions

Government forced to call walk-through vote after its Senators abstain on charge

Problems with apartment sector could be a ‘time bomb’ for taxpayer

Oireachtas Committee hears of lack of sinking funds, underestimated service charges

Planning regulator’s office to be set up later this year

Murphy tells Seanad office will have power to review procedures of An Bórd Pleanála

Councillors to receive wage increase and extra expenses payments

New accommodation rate is also being introduced for overnight stays in Dublin

Council urged to reopen 16 empty bedsits in Stillorgan

Public representatives condemn non-use of homes as ‘outrageous and scandalous’

Judges not named if censured under proposed Judicial Council Bill

Publication of documents from investigations into judges could result in fine or jail

Dublin housing scheme may have State funding withheld

South Dublin development risks losing €15m in funds in row over affordable homes

No guarantee publicly-funded ‘affordable’ housing will be affordable

Homes in one of State’s biggest private developments may cost €300,000

Good Friday alcohol sales ban to be abolished

Government is moving to lift the 90-year-old restriction on the supply of alcohol

Religious have ‘moral responsibility’ for half cost of redress scheme

Richard Bruton calls on congregations to respect view of successive governments

Tuam scandal Ireland’s ‘dirty little secret’, says Senator

Gerard Craughwell recalls growing up in Galway under bishop’s ‘tyranny’

Harbour transfer to local council imminent, Seanad hears

Shane Ross says Dún Laoghaire harbour firm facing challenge of marine leisure

Religious congregations owe €245m in State redress

State asked bodies to pay €725 million for victims but they have offered €480 million

Former AG Michael McDowell backs call for judicial council

Suggestion of register of interests for judges dropped from Seanad motion

Senator to table motion calling for register of judges’ interests

Culture of openness and transparency needed, says Independent Victor Boyhan

All parties back committee on councillors’ pay

Senator Paddy Burke says annual €16,500 pay not enough

Miriam Lord’s week: Healy-Rae makes stand over seating

Kerry TD refuses to give up seat in dispute delaying return of electronic voting in Dáil

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