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Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore today announced €250,000 in funding to provide emergency assistance to families in Haiti and Cuba who have been left homeless by Hurricane Sandy. The Tánaiste...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, today announced that the deadline for submission of applications under the revised TAMS Sow Welfare Scheme introduced by his Department last July was being extended from...

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has today confirmed that tests carried out at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, have identified the presence...

Minister Simon Coveney today underlined that the Common Agricultural Policy remains a top priority for the Irish Government in the discussion on the EU’s seven year budget (the...

Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, is pleased to announce today (Tuesday 30th October, 2012) that he has provided each of the county and city...

The Government welcomes the publication of NESC’s report Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Disability Services. It sees it as complementary to the recent Value for...

There is a thoroughly dishonest and inaccurate report on the front page of today’s Sunday Independent. The Taoiseach is wrongly accused of having...

Minister of State for Trade and Development, Joe Costello TD today begins a three-day visit to Vietnam to see the impact of Ireland’s development aid programme and to discuss measures to increase trade between Ireland and Vietnam...

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Eamon Gilmore, T.D., today published the 12 month progress report on the 2011 Global Irish Economic Forum. Commenting on its publication, the Tánaiste noted that: “a year ago...

At the 6th Annual Asia Pacific Ireland Business Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello, T.D. delivered a key note address to a gathering of 200 Irish business leaders from Asia and the Gulf region...