Dáil spending watchdog to examine civil service and ministerial pension errors
Hiqa also invited to come before Public Accounts Committee after disturbing documentary about nursing homes
Protections for tenants who live outside current Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs) to be brought forward next week
Government rejects Sinn Féin accusation it is ‘scrambling around under pressure from the Opposition and changing their plan’
Rent changes: How will tenants be impacted by the plans for Ireland’s rental market?
Government hopes more investors will deliver more homes and cause rents to fall in coming years, but the Opposition has attacked the plans
Up to 100,000 homes per year needed to address deficit by 2030, committee told
Department of Housing suggestion that commission’s recommendations were under way ‘not true in any meaningful sense’
Ireland to back proposal to extend EU protection for Ukrainian refugees into 2027
Cabinet separately approves plans to strengthen counterterrorism laws
Pension errors: Ministers may owe thousands of euro to State after payment issues
‘Serious and systemic’ issues at payroll office will see 13,000 retired civil servants checked
Plan to slash number of workers needed for housing targets through modern methods of construction
Coalition hopes new methods could reduce number needed by as many as 10,000
Rent Pressure Zones: Pressure on Government as it proposes to link certain rents to inflation
Cost-rental tenants may benefit from lower rents in future
‘Fight for us in the communities’: Views on ‘rocky’ first year of Limerick mayor
John Moran, Limerick’s first directly elected mayor, calls for a ‘large and thoughtful master plan’ for the city
Current rental caps to be eased for newbuild homes in planned pressure zone reform
Cap of 2% rise per annum will apply to existing tenancies but landlords will be able to charge more between tenancies
‘Arts’ dropped as a name of a Government department amid reshuffle by Coalition
Tourism and Gaeltacht move to other portfolios from Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
Provision of almost 1,000 extra prison places to be fast-tracked
Minister believes initiative will reduce delivery timelines by between 12 and 18 months
Woman who suffered six miscarriages says employers’ response ranged from empathy to pressure to return to work
Labour Party criticises delay to proposals to introduce leave for pregnancy loss
‘We do not need a housing tsar,’ top civil servant Graham Doyle tells property conference
Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers insists plans to appoint head of Housing Activation Office will go ahead
Parlous state of Defence Forces once again laid bare
Independents overboard as two Government-supporting TDs voted against Coalition over Palestine