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Garda vetting duplication is intensifying delays - O’Mahony

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, John O’Mahony, has highlighted the problems being caused by the delays in the Garda vetting system. Speaking in Dail Eireann, Deputy O’Mahony attributed some of the delay to duplication, whereby individuals are being assessed on two or more occasions.

Encouraging increase in Enterprise Ireland jobs in Meath - English

Fine Gael Meath West TD and Chairman of the Oireachtas Jobs Committee, Damien English, has today (Friday) said that new figures show there has been an encouraging increase in the number of jobs in Enterprise Ireland (EI) supported companies over the last two years. The number of jobs in EI companies in Meath was up to 4,771 last year, an increase of almost 500 since 2010. Furthermore, the number of jobs in EI companies in the county is now above 2008 levels.

Conlan welcomes funding for cattle and sheep breed improvement - 09/04/13

Speech at the opening of the European Data Forum

It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this morning's opening of this prestigious and fundamentally important conference for Europe, and indeed for Ireland.

Speech at the opening of the European Data Forum

It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this morning's opening of this prestigious and fundamentally important conference for Europe, and indeed for Ireland.

€50,000 investment for Loughshinny Harbour

"The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has granted funding to Fingal County Council for works at Loughshinny Harbour," according to Alan Farrell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal.

Statement by the Taoiseach on the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

I was saddened to learn of the death this morning of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Speech by An Taoiseach to the US Embassy Annual Economic Conference

As the centre of operations for our Presidency of the European Union we hope that the next chapter of transatlantic relations will be born out of the work conducted here

JobBridge is a proven pathway to full-time employment – Coffey

Fine Gael Waterford Deputy, Paudie Coffey, has said that the JobBridge internship scheme is a clear and dependable pathway to full-time employment which has seen 36 per cent of intern graduates in Waterford moving directly into employment, while 61 per cent of interns nationally have secured employment five months after graduating from the scheme. Deputy Coffey obtained this information by way of a Parliamentary Question to Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD (see below).

Coffey welcomes Minister’s commitment of funding for Dunmore East Harbour