Heather Humphreys

Business groups give Government announcement a broad welcome but others saying once-off measures for struggling households do not go far enough

Coalition leaders and Ministers set to finalise measures likely to amount to less than €1bn

Micheál Martin reiterates there will be ‘no cliff edge’ for supports

Sinn Féin brought forward a motion calling for a spring bonus for those reliant on social welfare payments

Rehab said it could not afford the €900,000 cost of honouring agreement

Consultation launched on tiered approach to ‘soften cliff edge’ after job loss

Heather Humphreys said people not receiving social welfare payments ‘also need help’

Anxiety in Government as all but 41 of 1,316 applications last year came from people in China amid geopolitical tumult

O’Gorman to seek Cabinet approval to change the legal status of childminders, enabling the National Childcare Scheme to be opened to more parents

Employers group believes efforts to introduce pension for all next year will be too disruptive for business

Briefing documents for Minister concede there is little chance of meeting Government’s self-imposed deadline

Minister is getting a chance Fine Gael denied Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald and Phil Hogan

Ministers will also consider €50 million fund for communities helping refugees

Heather Humphreys urged companies to take steps after Irish Times report revealed concerning comments to female politicians

Minister for Environment Eamon Ryan to tell Cabinet there is no current concern or risk around stocks

A €12 increase in maximum rate of all core weekly payments is largest increase in over a decade

Taoiseach pledges to go “all out” to address the housing crisis, comparing the response needed to the kind of action seen during the Covid-19 pandemic

Review recommends Ireland should consider moving to European-style ‘universal school meals’ model

The rates paid to suppliers - 60 cents for breakfast, €1.40 for lunch and €1.90 for dinner - have not changed since the school meals programme was launched in 2003

As Martin and Varadkar swap jobs, The Irish Times political team casts a critical eye over the performance of ministers since the Coalition came into power in 2020

Reforms expected to include revised disclosure obligations for senior public officials and inclusion of the judiciary in a consolidated regime for standards in public life

Ice and low temperature warnings due to come into effect from Thursday

Allowance of €2.90 per student is unworkable for suppliers, says representative body

A further 80,000 households to become eligible for the scheme

Pensioners, carers, widows, people with disabilities and lone parents to benefit from payments

The scheme was open to those who had spent at least four years in the State without immigration status

Justice Minister says she hopes to return to the brief following maternity leave

Humphreys says ‘a number of people’ have said they cannot deliver hot dinners at a cost of €2.90 per pupil

Arbitration documents show how tech entrepreneur’s job-finding organisation fell out with State agency for cutting it out of credit for new investments

Those on disability allowances, receiving pension and working families with low incomes to benefit

Will Micheál Martin opt for Foreign Affairs? Can Stephen Donnelly survive the changes? And where will Simon Harris end up?

Heather Humphreys also played down suggestions of tensions within the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael/Green Party coalition

Parents to receive double child benefit payment of €280 per child

Pensions expert says State's plan to begin auto enrolment by start of 2024 may prove too ambitious

Couple’s Creevagh House stud was well known across equine sporting circles

Sometimes ‘fractious relationship’ between Government agencies and community projects highlighted in Dáil

Community centres, parish halls, GAA clubhouses, Men’s Sheds, youth halls and more to benefit from grants

Cabinet agrees money normally used for flooding victims will help households affected by Donegal explosion

New pension rules, affecting around 750,000 workers initially, on course for 2024 introduction, Minister says

Mary Lou McDonald says changes a ‘Trojan horse’ to raise the pension age to 70