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Announcing Laura Magahy’s appointment as executive director of the Sláintecare health reform project this week, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described her a(...)

Growing student numbers in secondary schools over the coming years will increase pressure on the system to ensure there are enough qualified teachers (...)

The health service is facing a significant financial challenge in the current year, the secretary general of the Department of Health has told the Dái(...)

Straight after Taoiseach’s Questions on Tuesday, Leo Varadkar rushed from the Dáil chamber and down the main staircase for a photocall in front of one(...)

The worries in Government about the potentially catastrophic cost of the consultants’ legal action over pay come as pressure on existing health budget(...)

Will this affect my child’s existing access to a special needs assistant? Almost 35,000 students with additional care needs – such as autism – are cu(...)

An alliance of politicians, policy experts and medics has criticised the delay in the implementation of the Sláintecare report, the 10-year cross-part(...)

Almost 1,000 extra special needs assistants (SNAs) are to be allocated to schools in the autumn to help meet the needs of vulnerable students. Minist(...)

Fifteen years ago next month the then minister for health and current Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin announced a major programme of health service (...)

An interim director general of the Health Service Executive will be appointed by the beginning of July although recruitment to find a full-time succes(...)