Jim O’Callaghan said gardaí are being continually trained to deal with the issue

Some people might have been thinking Jim O’Callaghan was chosen to answer questions precisely because of the topic

Recent controversy at CHI and Beaumont related to ‘insourcing’ practice by NTPF

Sinn Féin leader says November poll must be last where franchise not all-Ireland

Elsewhere, Donald Trump’s latest foe proves to be the Pentagon’s intelligence arm

Imagine Micheál Martin doing your weekly shop? He’d refuse to look at a biscuit, the house would be awash with broccoli and you’d die for the want of a cheese-and-onion crisp

Dáil hears EU’s ‘descent into moral turpitude has been both swift and shocking. Its silence on Gaza deafening’

There had been efforts to have the new hospital called after Kathleen Lynn

The ceasefire, if it holds, would end 10 days of hostilities between the two nations

‘My drinking had always been too heavy. I had my first drink at 14,’ says Social Democrats TD

Before the Dáil even sat, the Social Democrats were down a TD over questions about his shareholding in a company with close ties to the IDF

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: AIB buys back all its shares, while politicians tear strips off Children’s Health Ireland representatives in front of an Oireachtas committee

Simon Harris claims Sinn Féin is the ‘wealthiest party’ and property owner in the Dáil

Rent pressure zone reforms has been the political story of the week

Verona Murphy is not for extending response time despite interruptions much to Martin’s annoyance

Opposition hit out at rental reforms as ‘ramshackle, haphazard, back-of-the-envelope’ proposals

Call made as ‘not a deadline in sight’ on any Government public transport plan

Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald tells Dáil the Health Information and Quality Authority needs stronger powers

Questions over electricity supply for data centres plague the Government

‘It seems the last shower did damn all because they were too busy preparing for the general election, but new boy Micheál wouldn’t know anything about that’