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Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Alan Kelly TD and Minister for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of Construction 2020, Paudie Coffey TD, today (18th January 2015) announced a new fast tracked process of funding approvals for social housing construction

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly and Minister with Responsibility for Housing, Planning and Coordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy, Paudie Coffey, have today (18 January 2016) welcomed the commencement of provisions in the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 which...

The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly T.D., today (18 January 2016) signed the establishment day order for the Climate Change Advisory Council which formally establishes the Council on a statutory basis in line with the provisions set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon...

Foreign Affairs Ministers from across the EU will gather in Brussels today (Monday) for the first Foreign Affairs Council meeting of 2016. The situation in Iraq, the peace process in Syria and Ukraine will be on the agenda. Speaking in advance of the meeting Minister Flanagan said...

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has asked people at particular risk, such as older people, pregnant women or people with chronic diseases, and also health workers to get the influenza vaccine...

I welcome the news that the International Atomic Energy Agency has verified the implementation of Iran's nuclear commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in line with what was agreed last July...

Last November, I published a Patient Safety Package at the second Annual Patient Safety Conference. It had already been approved by Government and was broadly welcomed at the time by patient advocacy groups. There has been no change of policy since then of any sort whatsoever...

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Justice and Equality, has announced that the Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Act 2015 comes into operation today Sunday, 17 January 2016...

In response to the TUI decision to take industrial action a Department spokesperson pointed out that the education budget has increased in the last two budgets by more than €200m (€60m in Budget 2015 and €144m in Budget 2016)...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan TD, today met with his Chilean counterpart, Minister Heraldo Muñoz, in Killenard, Co. Laois, where the talks focused on strengthening the relationship between Ireland and Chile...