The State’s spending watchdog, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), should have responsibility for holding Irish Water financially accountable, the Dáil has heard.

The State’s spending watchdog, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), should have responsibility for holding Irish Water financially accoun(...)

Tom O’Malley: legislating for abortion in rape cases “legally complex and therefore open to legal challenge”. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

The Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment has been advised that if a woman is granted an abortion because of an alleged rape, this may h(...)

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe will brief Ministers about the Government’s response to the tracker mortgage scandal at a Cabinet meeting. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe will today demand a clear timetable for the repayment and compensation of people wrongfully deprived of tracker m(...)

Committee chair Senator Catherine Noone has asked  two committee members not to resign their positions. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment will hold its first public discussion on what recommendation it will make on the position of the Eigh(...)

Solidarity TD Paul Murphy: said low-paid workers would pay for new communications unit. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

Solidarity TD Paul Murphy said the budget had revealed how people on social welfare and low-paid workers would pay for the Government’s spin. It had (...)

Denis O’Brien leaving the Four Courts in Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times

Businessman Denis O’Brien has received permission to appeal directly to the Supreme Court over the dismissal of his case against the Dáil and State ov(...)

Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy. Photograph: Collins Courts

A company operating the State’s jobs activation programme has been accused in the Dáil of fraud. Seetec Ltd, one of the companies contracted to run t(...)

Senior Government figures have discussed setting up a new housing corporation that would be able to act as a developer of State-funded homes. Photograph: Getty Images

A number of parties have called on the Government to give the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) more powers to build housing instead of establis(...)

The Government is targeting a Garda force of 21,000 by 2021. Photograph: The Irish Times

Former gardaí who left the force to serve as police officers in Australia have been applying to rejoin An Garda Síochána. Minister for Justice Charl(...)

Government departments have spent just under €1.725m on taxis, car and limousine hire in the past two years. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Government departments have spent just under €1.725 million on taxis, car and limousine hire in the past two years. Figures released by each departme(...)

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