Debate on confidence in McEntee degenerates into festival of Sinn Féin-bashing — a favourite pastime, bar none, of Fine Gael TDs
Pearse Doherty
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty says Government must ‘urgently’ introduce ban on rent increases for new and existing tenancies, while also putting full month’s rent back into renters’ pockets
Party has made a concerted effort to use the legal system to muzzle the media as well as political opponents who have dared to criticise it
Northern Ireland’s First Minister designate Michelle O’Neill says public patience with Stormont ‘paralysis’ has run out
Policies of both parties called into question as O’Brien challenges Ó Broin for longer-term solution to crisis
Opposition party’s housing policy is ‘empty rhetoric and soundbites’, Tanáiste tells the Dáil
Tánaiste says there has been ‘unprecedented and record levels’ of investment in the State’s health services in the past three years
Tax cuts costing €1.1bn in the first budget presented by a Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance since 2010
Budget 2024: Allocation will go towards funding services supporting people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, homeless prevention measures and tenancy sustainment
Budget 2024: ’A lazy rerun of all that was wrong with Budget 2023,’ says Labour
There was far less interest in the minutiae of Sinn Féin’s budget proposals from other parties, who may have had coalition in mind
Party’s tax hikes would hurt the wealthy – but they wouldn’t hurt most people
Party’s alternative budget would retain wealth tax and add other tax revenue to fund spending
Minister for Education Norma Foley said a small number of bus companies handed back contracts at the last minute
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