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€300,000 in 2016 HSE Service Plan to complete €3.6m upgrade of Mullingar A&E - McFadden

Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael TD, Gabrielle McFadden, has welcomed the inclusion of €300,000 in the HSE’s Service Plan for 2016, to help complete the €3.6 million upgrade of the Emergency Department at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.

17th December 2015

We shouldn't have to sacrifice our privacy to become a member of the digital club – Clune

Fine Gael Ireland South MEP, Deirdre Clune, has welcomed new EU rules voted upon this week in Strasbourg that will tighten how companies can use people's data.

16th December 2015

Next Sinn Féin will say they’ll use gold, frankincense and myrrh to fund their health policy – Doherty

“Today on RTÉ Radio Sinn Féin’s health spokesperson Caoimhin O’Caolain just could not say how Sinn Féin would pay for their health policy. The party is claiming they will spend extra billions on the health service without hiking taxes or cutting services elsewhere. Next they’ll be telling us they’ll use gold, frankincense and myrrh.

16th December 2015

Increase in whitefish quota will benefit Cork fisheries - Harrington

Fine Gael TD for Cork South West, Noel Harrington has said that the increase in whitefish quotas secured by the Minister for Agriculture and the Marine, Simon Coveney at the EU Fisheries Council, will benefit the Cork fisheries sector.

16th December 2015

HSE Service Plan to protect existing services and help develop new ones - Buttimer

Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Health, Jerry Buttimer, has said the HSE Service Plan will protect existing services and develop new ones.

16th December 2015

Buttimer welcomes reforms in Cork City Council housing department

Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, Jerry Buttimer, has said that changes implemented in the housing department in Cork City Council will ensure that the use of available funding is maximised.

16th December 2015

Who wants to pay €3.3 billion extra in tax? – Doherty

Fine Gael TD for Meath East, Regina Doherty, has asked if anyone is prepared to pay €3.3 billion extra in tax to fund Sinn Féin’s health plans?

15th December 2015

Who is going to pay for Sinn Féin’s health plans?

Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Health, Jerry Buttimer, has asked who exactly is going to pay for Sinn Féin’s health plans?

15th December 2015

Five years on from the bailout, FF blames ‘Joe and Mary Soap’ for economic collapse – Coffey

Five years to the day since Fianna Fáil voted in the bailout in Dáil Eireann, they are still trying to shift the blame for Ireland’s economic collapse, according to Fine Gael Minister and TD for Waterford, Paudie Coffey.

15th December 2015

Deering highlights potential monopoly with sale of Slaney Meats

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat Deering, has today (Tuesday) used the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, to highlight a potential monopoly which has arisen in beef and lamb markets, due to the sale of Slaney Meats to ABP Food Group.

15th December 2015