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I am particularly pleased to be here today to open this conference on victims of crime. The conference is using the lens of the current draft EU directive to consider the very important topic of victims of crime...

In my first year as Minister for Education and Skills I have been abundantly clear that this is my main objective....

Thank you for your invitation to address your Annual Convention. We have a common interest – improving educational outcomes for all our pupils.

Thank you for your invitation to address your Annual Congress. We have a common interest – improving educational outcomes for all our pupils....

I would like to begin by thanking the IBI for organising this two day broadcasting conference and for inviting me to speak. The agenda shows us the...

Thank you very much for inviting me to speak at your conference again this year, and for your kind words of welcome. It doesn’t seem that long since I addressed your conference last year in Limerick...

What I have been asked to talk about is Irish economic recovery in a European context. I hope you don’t think I am being rude when I say that there is a level of redundancy in the title – there can be...

I wish to make the following announcement to the house. The Government has been committed to reviewing the arrangements that were put in place to capitalise IBRC - formerly Anglo Irish Bank and Irish...

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...

The Irish Prison Service has forwarded its report regarding the circumstances surrounding the transfer to, and escape from, Loughan House of Prisoner Martin McDermott. Martin McDermott from...