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The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD has published the Report of the COVID-19 Rapid Testing Group. The report recommends widespread pilots, or feasibility studies, of rapid tests across different sectors...

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD has today (Thursday) announced the opening of the Student Grant Scheme for renewal applications for the 2021/22 academic year, and highlighted a number of improvements for some of the most disadvantaged students...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D., confirmed today that the tenth amendment to the Rural Development Programme (RDP) has been submitted to the European Commission for its approval...

Tánaiste also invites views on putting Right to Request Remote Working into law...

The RNLI and the Irish Coast Guard are urging people who will be spending time on or near the water during the Easter break to take note of the relevant water safety advice for their activity and to raise the alarm if they see someone in trouble by dialling 999 or 112 and asking for the Coast Guard...

Ireland’s COVID-19 vaccination programme strategy is to distribute all available vaccine as quickly as is operationally possible, prioritising those who are most vulnerable to COVID-19...

Minister Coveney today (31 March 2021) confirmed that Government has assigned responsibility for the remediation of the former factory site on the Island to the Department of Defence...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D. hosted a virtual meeting of the Dairy Forum today, Wednesday 31st March. The Dairy Forum brings all key stakeholders in the sector together to discuss the strategic development of the sector...

The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe TD, has today (Wednesday) outlined that Covid Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) payments of over €400m have been made by the Revenue Commissioners to businesses since the inception of the Scheme, which was announced and came into effect on Budget Day, 13th October 2020...

The Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora, Colm Brophy TD, today led the first of three on-line Town Hall meetings on an Irish Aid strategy to encourage public engagement with global issues such as poverty, climate change, and injustice...