Focus now moves to appointment of 23 Junior Ministers
Under the agreement between the two parties Fianna Fáil will have 10 Junior Ministers and Fine Gael will have eight
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Dublin North-West constituency candidates list: Dessie Ellis vote may drop but it’s hard to see seat in danger
Election 2024: Rory Hearne of the Social Democrats hopes to hold Róisín Shortall seat as parachute candidate
‘It has become too complicated and too confusing’: Voters’ referendums apathy spooks canvassers
Behind the scenes the mood among Government TDs has soured in a hard-to-read vote
Crossing the Rubicon: Fianna Fáil grassroots weigh up the Sinn Féin coalition option
Strong approval for Micheál Martin and Darragh O’Brien but divided views on forming a government with Sinn Féin
Over 200 US legislators in Dublin to meet with Irish parliamentarians and Ministers
Delegation including state and national legislators will meet Martin and McGrath on Friday
Lack of transparency from RTÉ over pay controversy has hit licence fee payments, Minister says
TD Paul McAuliffe says Public Accounts Committee eager to ‘wrap this up’ and move on from payment issues
Miriam Lord’s Week: TDs and Senators eager for their close-ups in The Tubridy Show
Committee hearings into RTÉ payments controversy provided stark contrast between top performers and those who scaled soaring heights of incoherence
RTÉ crisis: Nine key moments from this week’s contentious Oireachtas hearings
RTÉ executives push back on assertions made by Tubridy and Kelly; DG says he was surprised to hear former chief financial officer had availed of exit package
Children among residents targeted at anti-asylum seeker protests in Ballymun
Involvement of anti-immigration National Party and Irish Freedom Party widely condemned
People Before Profit TDs defend decision not to clap for Zelenskiy Oireachtas address
TDs Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny and Bríd Smith did not applaud
North Dublin home turned into ‘HQ for drug cartel’ as local community intimidated
Homes are being petrol bombed and threats issued by gangs on social media, says TD
Progress on gender equality wanted ‘urgently’
New Oireachtas committee hears recommendations to ‘force’ change quickly
Timing of Citizen’s Assembly on drugs shows Government ‘out of touch’, Dáil told
Minister of State says sequencing of debates does not imply ‘a hierarchy of importance’
C&AG says HSE must explain errors in financial statements
Comptroller casts doubt on possibility of ‘material loss of public funds’
Dublin MetroLink to be delayed until 2035 at the earliest
Public ‘have lost all faith’ in project as delays continue, says member of PAC
Politicians raise concerns that LDA plans will not deliver affordable rents
Government TDs defend cost-rental proposals, saying they could be ‘game-changing’
Transport official put under pressure to set out MetroLink timeline
Department secretary general defends work on projects saying: ‘We are going as fast as our little legs can carry us’
Plebiscite on directly elected lord mayor for Dublin expected in 2024
Tánaiste says citizens’ assembly next year will examine the issue
Potential cost of claims against State to rise ‘significantly’ from €4bn
Active claims currently number 12,000, including 305 cases relating to CervicalCheck
Number of legal cases related to CervicalCheck stands at 305
State Claims Agency director to provide detail on compensation and legal costs paid out
Children’s Hospital builders make claims for €446m in extra costs
Officials from department and hospital board refuse to give PAC estimates of final cost
‘Ill advised’: TDs’ reactions to Varadkar ‘Irish unity’ speech vary from supportive to critical
‘Fine Gael has a very clear strategy to try and attract voters from Fianna Fáil,’ says FF TD
Level of social homes being built branded as ’woefully inadequate’
Housing chief agrees capital spend must ‘significantly’ increase
Renewed campaign to recruit cyber centre director in ‘next few weeks’
Smyth to seek approval for increased salary for role
Fears ability to remove elected mayors will lead to US-style ‘impeachment hearings’
Concern over process to remove elected mayor will become ‘political football’
Progress against Covid-19 is ‘fragile’, Taoiseach tells FF party meeting
Micheál Martin says Ireland will be in a ‘different position’ in April due to vaccination
Covid-19 eviction ban Bill to go to Dáil next week
Oireachtas housing committee narrowly votes not to debate legislation
Housing is an acid test for Fianna Fáil in struggle to attract urban voters
Darragh O’Brien’s twin Bills to tackle housing crisis seen as pivotal to fortunes of party
HRI examining insurance options after €389k loss on cash transit
PAC hears 2019 liquidation of security transit company a ‘very unfortunate event’ for racing body
FF TDs would not exclude Sinn Féin coalition after next election
A year after the general election, Martin indicates a sea-change in FF stance
My first year as a TD: ‘I felt like I was working in a blizzard’
The pandemic has made for an unusual first year in the Dáil for some 40 deputies
Anti-vaccination leaflets ‘exactly like’ HSE advice sheets being distributed in Dublin
Louise O’Reilly says a lot of money spent on ‘very slick’ documents
Martin appoints 18 Fianna Fáil TDs to spokesperson positions
Dara Calleary takes social protection role while Barry Cowen turns down climate job
Referendum may be needed for Dying with Dignity Bill, says Gino Kenny
Cabinet divided on legislation which has been moved to Oireachtas Committee on Justice
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