Request for €20 rise during crisis from 40 organisations is rejected

The payment is taxed but you will not face a lump sum of a tax bill

Figures show 35,600 people who were receiving the benefit are now returning to work

Q&A: Dominic Coyle: ‘I suspect your friends face a difficult and costly time’

Revenue says over 50,000 companies have now signed up for emergency payments

Minister says State may have come through worst of pandemic linked temporary lay-offs

There are about 54,000 people who are receiving the payment for the first time

If you have a rainy-day fund start eating into it now

Concern over coronavirus will allow others to pick up on behalf of house bound people

Optics of State’s challenge to regulator of data-gathering multinationals are appalling

Row between department and Data Protection Commissioner likely to go to court

What’s the breakdown between TV, radio, online, governance, collection?

GP body admits financial difficulties as resigning team cites governance issues

EU directive brings extra requirements. Why is there such opposition to it?

Irish Council for Civil Liberties calls for publication of information in public interest

Staff often suggest people bring their own interpreter to appointments

Department of Social Protection allegedly interfered with role of its data protection officer

Government is wrestling with unfairness on pensions, but discrimination is not yet in the past

Department of Social Protection says it made €530m in savings after reviewing payments

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection says rise in PRSI could be used to pay for Ireland’s welfare regime

Regina Doherty responds to questions on biometric data following order to change website’s privacy statement

Data protection officer ‘on leave’ when alterations made, says Social Protection

Public services card photograph is ‘not biometric’, Department says

Contentious card scheme costs State €60m to date, with over three million cards issued

Tim Duggan tells committee that former commissioner ordered validation phone line

Contract with Biometric Card Services ‘modified’ pending preparation of new request for tender

Tenders sought for technical and strategic support for project first rolled out in 2011

Sinn Féin TD says tender issued by department, worth up to €100,000, is ‘bizarre’

Mandate says thousands of workers put up with week to week income changes

Office welcomes clarity on some issues in documents published by Department of Social Protection