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Local Government Minister Phil Hogan today announced that Pat Spillane will be the Chairman of the new Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (CEDRA). Minister Hogan said: ...

Mr Phil Hogan, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, announced today (22 October, 2012), that he has established an independently chaired Implementation Group to oversee the practical work of local government...

Reforming local Government is about solving problems and providing services that have a direct impact on all of our lives. We need local Government to be more democratic and more responsive, and we need that reform to happen while at the same...

Welcome everyone to Dublin Castle. It is noteworthy that we are here in the former home of governance in Ireland to launch one of the most radical, ambitious and far reaching governance reform plans ever put forward by an Irish Government...

Mr Phil Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has today (30 September, 2012) taken this early opportunity to encourage people to vote in the referendum relating to children on 10 November 2012 and to encourage those who are not...

As part of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan’s Action Programme for Local Government Reform, Putting People First, Local Authorities will have a new enhanced role in Local Economic Development...

Mr. Phil Hogan, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, announced today (19th September 2012) that he has made an order under the Referendum Act 1998 establishing an independent statutory Referendum Commission for...

“One of the key elements of ‘Putting People First’, the forthcoming Action Programme for Effective Local Government, will be a refocusing and re-invigoration of local authorities’ work in support of enterprise, business and job creation” said Phil Hogan TD...

The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr. Phil Hogan T.D., today (25 July 2012), welcomed the publication of the first Report of the Local Government Efficiency Review (LGER)...

Local Government Minister Phil Hogan today received the approval of the Government to the drafting of a Bill to implement the recommendations of the Constituency Commission Report 2012 which was...