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Ministers Donohoe & McGrath announce Budget 2021 Strategy...

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, today launched a new text-based mental health support which will be available to all returning and new third level students...

Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team...

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly TD today lent his support to the seventh Palliative Care Week, a public awareness campaign led by the All-Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative Care...

The Minister for Culture, Arts, Media, Tourism, Sport and the Gaeltacht, Catherine Martin T.D., today launched a number of new music and performance support schemes to aid employment in the creative industries given the unprecedented nature of the challenge facing the music and live performance sectors owing to Covid-19 restrictions...

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D. has welcomed the selection of Mairead McGuinness as European Commissioner designate...

The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar T.D., Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe T.D., Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath T.D. and Minister for Agriculture and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D., today (Monday the 7th of September) opened the new €2 billion COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme to provide Irish businesses, including those in the farming and fishing sectors, with access to low cost loans as they respond to the impacts of COVID-19...

Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has today, Monday 7 September, announced the issue of the results of the 2020 Leaving Certificate to over 60,000 students...

Following an incorporeal meeting of the Government, the Taoiseach has today written to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to propose for nomination...

Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris have today reported strong interest in the Government’s new Apprenticeship Incentivisation Scheme...