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Minister Helen McEntee, has published the General Scheme for the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022.

Minister announces that the Government has approved the extension of Enhanced Illness Benefit from the end of June until the end of September 2022.

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine wish to advise farmers of updates to the application system that will go live in the coming days.

Minister for Community Development and Charities, Joe O’Brien TD, has published the independent review of the Public Participation Networks (PPNs), fulfilling a commitment made in the Programme for Government.

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On 21 June, the Minister of State for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, will travel to Luxembourg to represent Ireland at a meeting of the General Affairs Council (GAC).

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has today met with staff of the National Helpdesk for displaced Ukrainian people seeking access to third level education in Ireland.

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On 20 June May, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney T.D. will attend a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg.

The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, TD, will host two very special citizenship ceremonies today to welcome 950 people as they become Irish citizens. The event will be the first in-person citizenship ceremonies since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.