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I welcome this opportunity to address the House on the outcome of the European Council which took place on 17 and 18 December...

When we began this journey in 2011, I said that the ultimate and top priority of the Government was to get people back to work – yes we had to rebuild the economy; stabilise the public finances; get the banks back on a solid footing. And we did all of those things. But jobs had to be top.

When we launched the first Action Plan for Jobs four years ago, the picture was very different. Our economy was in freefall . 330,000 jobs were lost - the worst in this state’s history – and emigration was rocketing. The job of this Government was to get our economy working again.

Thank you for your words of welcome. As one of Ireland’s first Cabinet Ministers for Children and Youth Affairs, I’m very glad to have the opportunity to represent the Irish government in discussing with the Committee...

I’m delighted to be here this morning to help launch Family Carers Ireland, which brings together two great organisations: the Carers Association and Caring for Carers Ireland...

Good afternoon everyone, I am delighted to be here today to launch the next phase of the Government’s ‘Pathways to Work’ labour market activation strategy...

This is the final annual report on the Programme for Government agreed between the Fine Gael and Labour parties in March 2011 and the Statement of Government...

This is a report that looks back on the fifth and final year of this Government’s term. But it’s also a report that helps us look forward – to the recovery now firmly under way and what we need to do to sustain it....

Thank you Ambassador Neary, and thank you Julie. I am delighted to be here in Amsterdam, and to see so many Irish and Dutch companies in active and productive partnership – thank you all for coming...

A Uachtarain agus a dhaoineuaisle uile. On Easter Monday 1916, at the commencement of the Rising, on the steps of the GPO, Padraig Pearse read out the following opening lines of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic...