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Thank you very much Helena for that very warm welcome. As Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, I appreciate the opportunity to address your Annual Conference. As you progress through...

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to address you this morning at your Annual Conference. The twin themes of the conference - “change and growth” - seem to me to be especially relevant at this...

I welcome the opportunity to present the 2012 Estimates for my Department’s Group of Votes. If I may, I will begin by making some general comments in relation to the major developments in my...

I am told that I am the first Minister for some time to be invited to address the Conference and so I am honoured to be here. I hope my remarks this morning will help to inform your deliberations over the...

I would like to thank the Chair and Members of the Committee for providing me with this opportunity to present the Government’s proposals in relation to “Whistleblower Protection Legislation”...

Mr. Richard Bruton, T.D., Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation today published a Blueprint document which sets out in detail the proposed shape of the new workplace relations structures that...

The public sector in Ireland has a proud record of service to the Irish state and to the Irish people. Out of the violence, destruction and chaos of the War of Independence and the Civil War a viable state...

It is very difficult to find words which would adequately condemn the type of behaviour outlined in this report, and previous ones, from the Planning Tribunal. It is a sorry tale of greed and betrayal, evasion...

A Cheann Comhairle.I had the honour of being elected to this House in 1987. Throughout my whole time here the spectre of corruption has hung over political life. While endemic to the system it has not...

A Cheann Comhairle, I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate in the House this evening on the analysis, findings and recommendations of the Fifth and Final Report of the...