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The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton T.D. has today (21st March) launched the Department’s redesigned website, www.welfare.ie, and published the Department’s Customer Charter and Action Plan. Visits to the welfare.ie website have risen...

Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar has welcomed strong growth in the number of holidaymakers and business people who travelled to Ireland last year, as revealed by new CSO figures published today...

Today (21-March-2013) Minister of State Brian Hayes provided an expert audience in Dublin’s National Convention Centre with details of the Government’s next phase in delivering its €2.25bn stimulus package...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, has confirmed the appointment of Mr. Joe Keeling, as Chairman of Horse Racing Ireland, in succession to Mr. Denis Brosnan. Minister Coveney acknowledged the proven track...

President of the Environment Council and Ireland’s Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan...

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan, T.D., today (20 March 2013) published the list of unfinished housing estates to which an exemption from the local property tax will apply. A similar waiver applied in respect...

The agreement on the CAP that was reached last night is a major stepping stone in the negotiations on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy that have been going on for over four years now. Ministers from the 27 Member States of the EU...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, has described as a watershed moment today’s agreement by European Agriculture Ministers of a Council position on the reform of the CAP. Following marathon talks in Brussels...

The Minister for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton TD, begins a two day visit to Frankfurt today (Tuesday, 19th March 2013). Minister Creighton delivered a speech on Ireland’s EU Presidency Progress to the Frankfurt School for Finance and...

The Minister for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton TD, begins a two day visit to Frankfurt today (Tuesday, 19th March 2013)...