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Minister for the Environment Denis Naughten pointed to local authorities’ estimates that more than 750,000 tyres had been dumped in sites around the country. Photograph: Alan Betson Over 1,600 firms sign up to scheme to prevent dumping of old tyres
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 23, 2017

Levy of up to €2.80 to go to recycling of end-of-life car tyres to halt waste on farms

The report “also found that hospitals were unable to account for millions of euro that pharmaceutical companies stated they had paid them”. Bill will require doctors to declare gifts from pharma firms
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 20, 2017

Healthcare companies gave €30 million to hospitals, medical staff in 2016, says Minister

Richard Bruton recalled that he had warned the then Fianna Fáil government in 2004 that its Central Bank Bill was defective.  Photograph : Matt Kavanagh Government to ‘ruthlessly pursue’ banks on tracker mortgages
  • Michael O'Regan
  • October 20, 2017

Strong criticism in Dáil and Seanad: ‘Scandal happened on a continuous basis’

The refunding of approximately €173 million paid by some 999,000 householders is due before the end of the year. Dáil votes by 84 to 44 to sanction refund of water charges
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 19, 2017

Government says Bill must pass by Halloween to allow 990,000 homes get repayment by year end

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty: said reversal of changes that resulted in 36,000 people receiving reduced payments would happen in ‘matter of weeks’. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Government suffers embarrassment of two Dáil defeats in a day
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 19, 2017

Rough day as pensions anomaly, Cork boundary and animal welfare votes defeated

Minister for Education Richard Bruton says The Central Bank will be given any powers it requires to deal the banks over the tracker mortgage scandal. Government will ‘ruthlessly pursue’ banks on tracker mortgages
  • Michael O'Regan
  • October 19, 2017

Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary says banks ‘slithered and slided’ from responsibilities

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty said  reversing the 2012 pension changes would unnecessarily benefit people who have access to other resources. File photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins Regina Doherty defends State pension cuts for 36,000
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 18, 2017

Willie O’Dea accuses Sinn Féin of being ‘snipers behind the ditch’ in heated exchanges

 Vice Admiral Mark Mellett: nominated by the Government for election to the highest military body in the EU. Photograph: Alan Betson Defence Forces chief of staff will stand down if elected to EU body, Dáil told
  • Michael O'Regan
  • October 18, 2017

Independent TD Clare Daly questions timing and neutrality implications

 Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is  set to “admonish” bank chiefs  over the delay in dealing with  thousands of  people affected by the tracker mortgage controversy. File photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Donohoe to ‘admonish’ banks next week on tracker mortgage row
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 18, 2017

Government has ‘lost patience’, will impose sanctions if action unsatisfactory – Taoiseach

Fallen trees block a road in Cork on Tuesday. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Insurers should cover Storm Ophelia damage, says Taoiseach
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 18, 2017

Monday’s storm differs to flooding, says Varadkar: ‘Nobody is in a hurricane zone’

Michael Healy-Rae TD speaking in Dublin in 2012. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill /The Irish Times Healy-Rae criticises ‘swagger and arrogance’ of last government
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 18, 2017

‘He told me where to go’: Kerry TD sharply criticises former minister Phil Hogan

The An Post logo. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien Miriam Lord: Leo gets to grips with post truth
  • Miriam Lord
  • October 18, 2017

Taoiseach cites French voting patterns as a reason to keep post offices from closing

Senator Gerard Craughwell said there were only two qualified chain saw operators covering the entire northern section of the country in a line from Dublin to Galway. Photograph:  Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Senator claims Army does not have adequate resources to deal with severe storms
  • Michael O'Regan
  • October 17, 2017

Gerard Craughwell says there is a lack of engineering units and chain saw operators

Independent Clare TD Michael Harty: claimed many successful Clare hurlers were from parts of the county that might end up in Limerick under proposed boundary changes in the McKinnon report Clare hurlers might have to play for Limerick if boundary changes, Dáil told
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 17, 2017

McKinnon report calls for the Cork city boundary to be extended into the county area

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar meets ESB Network workers in Kilcock, Co Kildare,  on Tuesday as they clear fallen power lines after Storm Ophelia. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Taoiseach says Opposition reaction to strategic communications unit ‘paranoia’
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 17, 2017

Varadkar tells Dáil he has fewer political advisers, who cost less than his predecessors’

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin accused the Taoiseach of making “asinine’’ remarks on Brexit. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Martin accues Varadkar of making ‘asinine’ remarks on Brexit
  • Michael O'Regan
  • October 17, 2017

Taoiseach refers to reports FF wants electronic border

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald: “There’s more brass on the necks of the Fianna Fáil leadership than we would expect in a marching band.” Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Varadkar defends rejection of FF motion to tackle pension anomaly
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 17, 2017

McDonald welcomes motion to reverse cut ‘no matter how late, cynical, self-serving’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said local authorities would receive additional resources to assist in the clean-up.   Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Storm Ophelia almost cost emergency service lives, Taoiseach reveals
  • Michael O'Regan
  • October 17, 2017

Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader criticise people who disobeyed safety warnings

The Coalition parties “see the arts as an occasionally useful platform but have no fundamental regard or feeling for them at all,” Fianna Fáil spokeswoman on arts Niamh Smyth claimed.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Government views arts and artists as ‘extras in world where politics is show business’
  • Marie O'Halloran
  • October 12, 2017

Coalition has ‘fundamental attitude of disrespect’ for the arts, Fianna Fáil claims

M50 file photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times One million M50 tolls unpaid last year, TD says
  • Mark Hilliard
  • October 12, 2017

Public Accounts Committee hears of €5.2m in write-offs in 2016, €4.9m in 2015

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