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I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to this important conference on energy and job creation....

Ladies and gentlemen, and most especially graduates of the EPIC Programme, I would like to thank Tina Roche, Steve Costello and their colleagues for inviting me here today to participate...

Let me, at the outset, thank Mr. Marcin Zaborowski, Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, for his very warm words of welcome. Like...

I am pleased to have the opportunity to address this House on preparations for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. I will also update members on the outcome of last week’s European Council meeting...

This Motion proposes to amend the terms of reference of the Tribunal of Inquiry into suggestions of collusion by Members of the Garda Síochána or other employees of the State in the murder by the Provisional IRA of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry...

First of all I’d like to thank the Senator for raising this topic. The Minister is aware that apparent delays in the processing of vetting applications is something that causes anxiety for those awaiting their vetting certificates so that they can take up...

A Ceann Comhairle, In six weeks from today, the Minister for Finance will deliver his second budget to Dáil Éireann. When the Minister delivered Budget 2012, he did so nine months after this Government had inherited a...

I want to welcome you all to the Department today for an update on developments at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown, Blanchardstown, D15. I want to introduce my former Dáil colleague and former minister for agriculture, Joe...

Lord Mayor, Secretary General, Chief of Staff, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to be here in Custume Barracks, Athlone, this afternoon to review members of the 107th Infantry Battalion who will be travelling to...

I am pleased to brief the House on the outcome of last week’s European Council meeting in Brussels on 18-19 October. I am also happy to report that the outcome of the meeting was very positive from an Irish and a European perspective...