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Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte today announced progress with the Rural Broadband Scheme which aims to identify the remaining individual premises in rural Ireland that are unable to obtain a broadband service and to provide ...

Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, today announced that he has approved the allocation of milk quota to a major research project aimed at demonstrating best practice in conversion to dairy farming...

A wide ranging new strategy aimed at ensuring that every child leaves school having mastered literacy and numeracy is being launched today (Friday 8th July 2011) by Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D. ...

Following the agreement of the Government in June, the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan T.D., announced today the establishment of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. The Council is being put in place as part of a wider agenda...

Finance Minister Michael Noonan signed a Statutory Instrument on 6th July, which increased the limit for loan applications that can be reviewed by the Credit Review Office from €250,000 to €500,000...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton today visited the HQ of Microsoft in Ireland in Sandyford, Dublin...

Minister of State for Tourism & Sport Michael Ring today officially launched a new culinary programme aimed at addressing the skills deficit within the hospitality sector – particularly the lack of qualified chefs. The programme...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, today confirmed that agreement has been reached in Brussels this morning which provides for an advance payment under the 2011 Single Payment Scheme...

The National Day of Commemoration Ceremony, to honour all those Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations, will be held this year on Sunday, 10 July, in the Royal...

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD has, today, told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, Children and Youth Affairs that her new Department will leave a lasting legacy in ensuring that...