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I am pleased to report to the Committee on the intensive investigation undertaken by my Department and the FSAI into the source of equine DNA disclosed in certain beef burgers. I am joined by officials of my Department, Assistant Secretaries Philip Carroll...

Alan Shatter TD, Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence announced today that the Government has approved publication...

Minister for Trade and Development, Joe Costello T.D., is today attending a high-level meeting of representatives from the African Union, the EU and United Nations in Brussels to press for closer international coordination in response to the crisis in Mali...

Minister for Natural Resources, Mr. Fergus O’Dowd, T.D. today unveiled the preliminary findings of a €5 million EU INTERREG IVA-funded geological project to map the environment and natural resources of the border region of Ireland. Minister O’Dowd was...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, this evening (Monday 4th February 2013) addressed the conference Vulnerable families – What can Ireland do? organised by COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations of the...

Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht expressed his sympathy on learning of the death of Kevin B. Nowlan. Minister Deenihan commented:...

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney announced this evening his Department has received a test result confirming 75% equine DNA in a raw material ingredient at Rangeland Foods, Co Monaghan. The Department...

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs has today said that EU policy developments as well as the development...

Insurance companies will soon have full access to details of serious offences which have incurred penalty points for the first time...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, today announced that for 2013, Nitrates Derogation applications and plans can be submitted on-line by farmers and their agents registered with agfood.ie. Both the on-line system...