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New opportunity to fund Kildare swimming pools - Durkan

Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, Bernard Durkan, has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Sport, Michael Ring TD, that he is to re- open the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme for a short time.

20th January 2016

Keating receives apology from An Bord Pleanála in relation to Lucan United development

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Mid-West, Derek Keating, has received an apology from An Bord Pleanála following inaccurate reports suggesting he had objected to the Lucan United proposed development at Airlie Heights Lucan.

18th January 2016

500 new jobs for Clare based company - Breen

Fine Gael TD for Clare and Chairman of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee, Pat Breen, has said that the announcement of 500 new jobs by healthcare recruitment company TTM, is very good news for Clare.

18th January 2016

DAA creating 350 new jobs for Dublin Fingal

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell, has said that the success of Dublin Airport and the news of an additional 350 jobs is a great boost for the area.

18th January 2016

Tipperary homes will be safer as a result of the New Burglary Act - Coonan

Fine Gael TD for Tipperary, Noel Coonan, has said that the new Burglary Act will make Tipperary homes safer and highlights this Government’s commitment to supporting An Garda Síochána.

18th January 2016

Over 5,800 additional new IDA jobs for Dublin in 2015 - Byrne

Fine Gael TD for Dublin South Central, Catherine Byrne, has welcomed the positive employment figures for Dublin released this week by the IDA, saying that continued job creation will keep the recovery going in Dublin.

15th January 2016

How can Micheál Martin lead the country when he can’t lead his own party? – D’Arcy

Fine Gael Senator for Louth/East Meath, Jim D’Arcy, has this week called on all Fianna Fáil candidates to clarify their position on whether they will go into government with Sinn Féin as many seem to be definitively at odds with their party leader.

15th January 2016

New national plan aims to get half a million more people taking regular exercise – Fitzpatrick

Fine Gael TD for Louth and Member of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, Peter Fitzpatrick, has said that Ireland’s first ever National Physical Activity Plan will aim to get half a million more people taking regular exercise.

14th January 2016

Cost creep in the tourism sector is totally unacceptable – Coghlan

Speaking in the Seanad, Government Chief Whip and Senator for Kerry, Paul Coghlan, said that cost creep and price gouging in the tourism sector is totally unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

14th January 2016

2012 Committee Report should be considered as climate change causes major flooding – Corcoran Kennedy

Fine Gael TD for Laois/Offaly, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, has said that recent flooding is alerting us to the fact that climate change is real and that the Oireachtas Environment Committee report from July 2012 should be considered in decisions made to deal with the issue. Deputy Corcoran Kennedy was speaking in the Dáil on the recent Shannon flooding.

14th January 2016

Sligo mammography procurement meeting underway – McLoughlin

Fine Gael TD for Sligo/Leitrim, Tony McLoughlin, has said that today’s meeting with a company hoping to provide a follow up mammography service at Sligo University Hospital, is another welcome step in the HSE’s procurement process.

14th January 2016

Neville represents Ireland in Geneva to discuss children’s rights

Fine Gael TD for Limerick and Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party, Dan Neville, was one of only two Irish delegates to join the Minister for Children, James Reilly for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.

14th January 2016