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Flanagan heralds positive sustainable future for Peatlands

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, TD, has today (Monday) opened the International Peat Society conference in the Tullamore Court Hotel, Co. Offaly.

8th June 2015

Conflict between ECB and Irish figures on SME lending need explanation - Hayes

Brian Hayes, Fine Gael MEP has today (Sunday) said that discrepancies between Irish data and ECB data on SME lending need to be investigated, to give Irish businesses a clearer picture of current lending conditions.

6th June 2015

Bannon urges focus on farm safety during busy silage season

Fine Gael TD for Longford/Westmeath, James Bannon has urged farmers and farming families to make farm safety a priority during the busy silage cutting season.

5th June 2015

Tax cuts will put money directly into workers’ pockets - Hayes

Brian Hayes, Fine Gael MEP today (Friday) said that as the economy begins to recover, income tax reductions coupled with wage increases will deliver rising levels of prosperity to all parts of society.

5th June 2015

Burke welcomes opening of National Rare Disease Office

Fine Gael Cork North Central Senator and the party's Seanad Spokesperson on Health, Colm Burke, has welcomed the news that the National Office for Rare Disease was officially opened today (Thursday). The office was opened by the Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, and the office will remain in the Mater Hospital until the new National Children's Hospital is built.

4th June 2015

Hayes calls for European Studies Programme funding to be restored to schools

Funding for the cross border European Studies Programme (ESP) has been withdrawn by the Minister for Education in the Stormont Executive, John O’Dowd MLA. The Programme has been funded on a 50:50 basis by the Department of Education, Northern Ireland and the Department of Education and Skills here for nearly 30 years. ESP links 90 post-primary schools north and south through collaborative curriculum-based projects furthering tolerance, mutual understanding and an appreciation of the cultures of others.

4th June 2015

Hayes meets Iraq speaker and UNICEF head in Brussels to discuss unfolding humanitarian disaster

Fine Gael Dublin MEP, Brian Hayes, and Vice Chairman of the EU Delegation for relations with Iraq, today (Thursday) described the humanitarian crisis in Iraq as urgent. He was speaking at an international meeting in Brussels to launch a new appeal for fresh funding for Iraq.

4th June 2015

Fianna Fáil looking back fondly on 2008 and refusing to accept jobs growth in 2015 – Corcoran Kennedy

“Only this week, Fianna Fáil’s Jobs Spokesperson, Dara Calleary, bemoaned the fact that Ireland’s competitiveness is not what it was in 2008; a time when Ireland was on the brink of the economic crash, buoyed up by a false economy and broken banks.

3rd June 2015

Major step forward on BSE certification a huge boost for beef trade

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, TD, today welcomed the decision by the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) to recognise Ireland as a country having a negligible risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

3rd June 2015

MINISTER COFFEY ANNOUNCES €2.5 MILLION FOR HOUSING INVESTMENT

Waterford Fine Gael Minister of State for Housing & Planning, Paudie Coffey TD has today announced €2.5 million worth of housing investment for Waterford City and County.

3rd June 2015

Suicide remains major problem despite slight drop in death rate – Neville

“CSO data has confirmed that 459 deaths by suicide were registered in 2014, compared to 475 in 2013. A reduction of any kind is to be welcomed, but very cautiously”, says Dan Neville, founder of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Fine Gael Party Chairperson and TD for Limerick.

2nd June 2015

Businesses to have their say on future tax policy - Twomey

Fine Gael TD for Wexford and Chairman of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Liam Twomey, said today (Friday) the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, is to begin a public consultation on the tax barriers facing small business and entrepreneurs. The tax treatment of small businesses and the self-employed isone of the key concerns highlighted during Fine Gael’s Standing up for Small Business campaign.

29th May 2015