Covid-19: Minister seeks ‘solidarity tax’ on high earners and firms ‘highly profitable’ in pandemic

Green TD Joe O’Brien said move could offset potential of deepening inequality

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan will not vote for Hazel Chu in Seanad byelection

Ryan says he will ‘talk to my colleagues’ about Chu’s role as Green Party chairwoman

Minister ‘determined’ to reduce consistent poverty rate to record low

Minister of State for Social Inclusion Joe O’Brien says he will seek to reduce rate to 2%

Top Green Party figures break ranks to back Hazel Chu’s Seanad hopes

Party indicates Lord Mayor of Dublin ‘not contesting election as Green Party candidate’

Holohan urges people to work from home as ICU total nears 200

Thirteen more deaths and 2,944 cases of Covid-19 reported by Nphet

Department of Housing ‘crossed the line’ in criticising asylum seeker plans, O’Brien says

Junior minister responds as department calls accommodation proposals ‘not workable’

Greens steady the ship and look to focusing on the big tasks at hand

The heat has gone out of the internal rows that sucked up so much of the Greens’ energy earlier this summer

Tourists would not be able to tell difference between rural Ireland and rural England, Dáil told

TD calls for return to traditional road signs to keep ‘bit of character’ left in rural areas

Owens’s comments increase tensions ahead of FAI senior council meeting

Composition of the board, as agreed per the State’s rescue package, still a live issue

Greens’ coalition partners: ‘Now we know not to count them into our figures’

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs glad voting indiscipline has come now and not on budget

Speaking rights removal for O’Brien and Hourigan ‘sufficient’

Punishment adequate for failing to vote with Government on Bill, Green leader says

North South Ministers discuss sharing passenger locator data

O’Neill says there is a ‘confused picture’ around travel regulations in North and South

‘It has been a difficult six months’ – Eamon Ryan says punishment of TDs sufficient

Paschal Donohoe says first few weeks of Government ‘could have gone better’

Neasa Hourigan’s future within the Greens hangs in the balance after vote

TD wants to remain as a Green parliamentarian after voting against Government Bill

Timeline: Calleary resignation latest in a series of Government crises and missteps

Coalition has now lost two ministers, and reversed on policy positions and annoyed the public

Greens upheaval casts doubt on Government’s chances of long-term survival

Abstention by Minister of State creates further drama for his party – and the Coalition

Leaders spark anger as they look west for junior minister carve-up

Several TDs from west get posts, but not everyone in the parties has been placated

Junior ministerial appointments: Martin’s task was leaders’ hardest

Regional imbalance rectified with appointments from constituencies along west coast

Coalition parties to appoint 20 junior ministers if accord ratified

Deal would see Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael get eight roles each with four going to Greens

Dáil hears claims TDs used racism to get elected

Debate hears call for new Seanad to include people of colour and Travellers

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