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Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton: Her strong performance is due to a strong rating of 60 per cent among Fine Gael supporters and 50 per cent with Fianna Fáil supporters Joan Burton is the most popular Minister, James Reilly the least

The latest Irish Times, Ipsos MRBI poll shows Burton has a 41% satisfaction rating while Reilly scores 13%

Fine Gael TD Terence Flanagan: “I have major concerns about the suicide provision and I am seeking further clarification on it.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Flanagan delays decision on support for abortion Bill

Minister for Health insists there will be no free vote for FG TDs

Minister for Health Dr James Reilly yesterday warned health insurers to reduce costs Reilly warns private health insurers to cut costs

Independent hospitals say Government’s latest proposals will mean closures and reduced services

With about four months of campaigning ahead the Government is in a strong position to carry a Yes vote but the result is not a foregone conclusion. The No vote is strongest among the best off and most educated voters while it is weakest among the poorest voters. Majority of voters want Seanad abolished – poll

Most also oppose reducing voting age to 17, as constitutional convention proposed

Annual accounts for the Dail bar released by the Houses of the Oireachtas Service show profits increased 5 per cent in the 12 months to the end of December last. Cheap pints and tales of political intrigue recipe for success at Dail bar

Profits increase at Oireachtas bar and restaurant

John Halligan: hit out at the church for “harassment” of TDs over abortion legislation and in trenchant criticism said “threatening D deputies to induce them to vote in a particular way must surely be illegal”. John Halligan TD says church is ‘in no position to lecture on rights’

Bishops criticised for failing to condemn harrassment of TDs by ‘pro-life mob’

Enda Kenny: “There is something fundamentally wrong in politicians asking others to change and make real sacrifices and not doing the same ourselves.’’Photograph: Alan Betson Kenny says abolishing Seanad would save €20m annually

Opposition critical of proposed referendum

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Alan Shatter said the Sinn Féin TD was trying to make him “pillory the force as a whole” Shatter to meet Garda Commissioner and Ombudsman

Commissioner’s response expected within days to Garda Ombudsman criticisms

Ivana Bacik: said the Bill had greatly improved on the heads debated at the Oireachtas health committee hearings Bacik calls for Seanad debate on abortion in cases of rape

Sharp reaction from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael senators

Independent TD John Halligan: called on the Tánaiste ‘to condemn the Catholic Church for attempting to intervene in the running of this State’. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Catholic Church has no right to be ‘State’s moral compass’, Dáil hears

Tánaiste says church has every right to express its view but its comments on abortion legislation are ‘exaggerated’

The conservative Catholic schoolteacher from Mayo stood by his sense of duty Country before Crozier for Catholic Kenny

In recent months, the Taoiseach has been at the business end of a severe bludgeoning, but he hasn’t flinched

Enda Kenny: “I’m getting medals, scapulars, plastic foetuses, letters written in blood, telephone calls all over the system and it’s not confined to me.” Taoiseach says he has been branded a ‘murderer’ for his stance

Enda Kenny tells Dáil he is Taoiseach who happens to be Catholic rather than Catholic Taoiseach

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan accused Joe Higgins of ‘picking figures off the top of his head’. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Hogan denies water charges could end up costing €1,000 per household

Minister says water metering programme will create jobs

Micheál Martin accused the Government of washing its hands of the issue, a claim Enda Kenny denied. Banking ‘fat cats’ spare their own pensions but ‘savage’ workers’ fund at Permanent TSB

Bank officials will lose between 50% and 70% of their pensions, FF says

Ronan Mullen accused the Coalition Government of engaging in spin. Ronan Mullen warns of a “sad new chapter’’ if Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is forced through Oireachtas

Senator calls for Seanad debate on abortion before legislation comes before the House

UCD history professor Diarmaid Ferriter said plans to remove history as a compulsory subject under the new Junior Cycle programme were ’very worrying for the future’. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Making history non-compulsory 'worrying for future'

History teachers express grave concern at plans under new junior cycle programme

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told the Dáil while was a Catholic he was ’not a Catholic Taoiseach’. Photograph: Ints Kalnins /Reuters Taoiseach tells Dáil he is ‘a Catholic but not a Catholic Taoiseach’

Taoiseach receives plastic foetuses, medals, scapulars, letters in blood over abortion row

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan said the property tax offered an opportunity for political reform at local government level Just 3 per cent of homeowners have sought property tax deferral, says Noonan

It will take more than 125 years of property tax to pay off banking debt, according to SF

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Minister for Health Dr James Reilly yesterday warned health insurers to reduce costs Reilly warns private health insurers to cut costs
Fine Gael TD Terence Flanagan: “I have major concerns about the suicide provision and I am seeking further clarification on it.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Flanagan delays decision on support for abortion Bill
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton: Her strong performance is due to a strong rating of 60 per cent among Fine Gael supporters and 50 per cent with Fianna Fáil supporters Joan Burton is the most popular Minister, James Reilly the least

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