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We are today publishing the Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne. We should be clear about one thing.This is not a report about some terrible wrongs that were done long ago....

Today, my colleague Minister Shatter & I, with the approval of Government, are publishing the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Diocese of Cloyne....

We want to acknowledge, first of all, that this report has been possible only because of the willingness of victims to tell their harrowing stories to the Commission...

Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, welcomes the publication of the EU Commission’s proposals for the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy which were published today. The new proposals...

Environment Minister Phil Hogan today announced €1 million in funding to local authorities under the Anti-Litter & Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant Scheme, and a further €0.5 million to assist local authorities to deal with...

Mr. Phil Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, today ( 13 July, 2011) announced that he has approved the necessary funding to allow Meath County Council to accept the tender...

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to appear before the Select Committee today. I look forward to a constructive discussion covering the 2011 estimates for my Department’s group of Votes and the recent Stability...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, said today that he was delighted to learn that a number of researchers from Irish research institutes and agri-food SME’s are participants in successful...

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney today welcomed the news that researchers from Irish institutes and agri-food SMEs are participants will be funded under the EU's 2010 Research Call under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7)....

The Government today (12th July 2011) appointed Ms. Geraldine Byrne Nason to be Second Secretary General at the Department of the Taoiseach...