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With 100 days until the end of the transition period, Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar TD is urging businesses to be ready for the inevitable changes that Brexit will mean for their operations at the end of this year...

Minister for Justice and Equality, Helen McEntee TD, has today asked anyone tempted to use fireworks this Halloween to remember workers at the frontline of dealing with Covid-19 as well as vulnerable members of the community...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D., yesterday addressed an international gathering of stakeholders from across the pillars of research, government, civil society and industry at the launch of the FAO LEAP Guidelines on the environmental performance of feed additives in livestock supply chains...

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, has welcomed the approval given at Cabinet for the allocation of €20m from Carbon Tax to eight local authorities under the Midlands Retrofit Project...

The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Eamon Ryan TD, today (Tuesday 22 September) announced the 39 community projects to receive grant funding of €28 million under the Community Energy Grant Scheme...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney, T.D., and the Minister of State for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, T.D., will exchange views with their counterparts on the current EU-UK negotiations, at a meeting of Ministers for European Affairs today...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D., today called for a strong green ambition to be maintained in the ongoing negotiations on the CAP Post 2020...

Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team...

The Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan T.D. has today welcomed the appointment of Mr. Diarmuid Ó Conghaile as the new Aviation Regulator with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). Mr Ó Conghaile will take up his appointment from 1 January 2020...

In the context of increasing COVID-19 positive cases in Dublin and indeed growing cases in a range of counties over the last number of days, Minister O’Brien met with the Chief Executives of all Dublin local authorities last Friday evening and, with his Department, has been working over the last number of days with local authorities to support communities and businesses, who continue to be affected by the pandemic...