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Minister Joe O’Brien, Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development with special responsibility for Community Development and Charities, today joined with his colleague, Minister Roderic O’Gorman, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to launch a White Paper on the Government’s new international Protection Support System – a move Minister O’Brien today described as a “radical policy shift”...

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., today published a White Paper to End Direct Provision and to establish a new International Protection Support Service...

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 35 additional deaths related to COVID-19...

Government welcomes publication of National Competitiveness and Productivity Council bulletin on insurance costs...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue T.D. and the Minister of State Senator Pippa Hackett today announced ‘Project Woodland’, an initiative to tackle issues in forestry in Ireland and drive forward the planting of trees.  The Ministers accepted a report on reforming the Irish Forestry Licensing system, and committed to its immediate implementation...

Minister Heather Humphreys today published the Department of Rural and Community Development’s second Statement of Strategy, covering the period 2021-2023...

Statement on 2030 process...

The official seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 6.0 per cent in the fourth quarter last year, up from 4.7 per cent for the same period in 2019...

The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, T.D. has today announced the appointment of Dr. Linda Mulligan as the Chief State Pathologist following an open competition run by the Public Appointments Service...

EWSS and CRSS extended until 30 June...