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Byrne welcomes clamp down on rogue operators

Fine Gael Dublin South Central TD, Catherine Byrne, has today (Tuesday) welcomed the Government’s new legislation targeting rogue clamping operators.

10th June 2014

Byrne welcomes clamp down on rogue operators

Fine Gael Dublin South Central TD, Catherine Byrne, has today (Tuesday) welcomed the Government’s new legislation targeting rogue clamping operators.

10th June 2014

Update: Class Sizes in Naas 10th July 2014

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which primary school places and class requirements in Naas, County Kildare continue to be met; if class sizes fall within the national average...

10th June 2014

Update: Class Sizes in Kilcock 10th July 2014

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which primary school places and class requirements in Kilcock, County Kildare continue to be met; if class sizes fall within the national average...

10th June 2014

The discrepancies in the inspection regime put in place to protect vulnerable residents in direct provision centres

Currently, there are 4,353 residents in 34 Direct Provision accommodation centres across the State under contract to the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) of the Department of Justice and Equality.

9th June 2014

Statement by Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Justice & Equality on the Cooke Report

A Cheann Comhairle, I welcome this opportunity for the House to debate the findings and recommendations of the report by Judge Cooke into claims of unlawful surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

9th June 2014

Speech by the Minister for Justice & Equality, Ms Frances Fitzgerald T.D. , Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998, Dáil Éireann, Thursday, 19 June 2014

I move the motion, a Cheann Comhairle. The House will be aware that the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the Real IRA in Omagh on the 15th of August that year. It was a necessary response to that atrocity and the loss of 29 innocent lives.

9th June 2014

Plain packaging of cigarettes is a progressive move in the fight against smoking - Burke

Fine Gael Cork North Central Senator, and member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health Colm Burke, has welcomed the publication of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 this week, which will introduce plain packaging for tobacco products.

9th June 2014

PayPal has been a beacon of light in Dundalk

Fine Gael Senator, Jim D’Arcy, has welcomed the announcement that PayPal is creating 400 jobs over the next four years at its European operations centre in Dundalk, Co Louth.

9th June 2014

Nursing homes in the North East providing vital employment

Fine Gael Louth TD and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, Peter Fitzpatrick this week met with Fintan Farrelly, Regional Chairman of Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) to discuss the challenges facing the sector.

9th June 2014