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FF job plan still MIA while Govt pro-growth policies result in drop in Live Register – Corcoran Kennedy

“Fianna Fáil’s elusive jobs policy is still missing in action. The long promised policy is nowhere to be seen, as the party’s TDs concentrate on negative campaigning and trying to rewrite history”, says Chairperson of the Oireachtas Jobs Committee and Fine Gael TD for Laois/Offaly, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy.

National Narcolepsy Support Coordination Needed – Stanton

“A structured support package and advocate is needed for people who developed narcolepsy as a result of receiving the swine flu vaccine in 2009 and 2010” says Cork East Fine Gael TD, David Stanton. National figures show that 74 young people and children developed the condition after they received the Pandemrix vaccine.

Roaming charges to be abolished in June 2017 - Hayes

Dublin MEP, Brian Hayes has today (Tuesday) welcomed confirmation that roaming charges across the EU will be abolished by June 2017. The decision comes following agreement reached yesterday between the Commission, the Council and the Parliament.

What's happening in Calais is a tragedy in the making - Clune

Fine Gael Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune, the only Irish member on the EU Transport committee, has called on the French Government to protect Irish lorry drivers passing through the French port of Calais, and has put a parliamentary question to the European Commission asking them to take immediate action to tackle what is fast becoming a humanitarian crisis on our doorstep.

Coveney Launches New €50m Dairy Equipment Scheme

Opening of the new TAMS II Dairy Equipment Scheme which is the second of the new Targeted Modernisation Schemes (TAMS II) to be launched under the new Rural Development Programme 2014 - 2020.

HSE should write to patients on waiting lists and advise they have right to procedures abroad – Hayes

Fine Gael MEP for Dublin, Brian Hayes, has today (Monday) called on the HSE to inform those on waiting lists about their right to have treatment in another EU Member State. As part of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive patients have the right to receive medical treatment in another EU Member State and the right to have some or all of the costs re-paid.

Clune criticises calls by the French Interior Minister for a clampdown on Uber

The sharing economy in Europe is estimated to be worth €10 billion and forecasted to grow to €250 billion in the next decade.

Connecting for Life’ – Ireland’s Suicide Prevention Strategy 2015-2020

When we planned this strategy- this launch- we could hardly have anticipated that in the preceding Misdsummer days and the Pacific nights we would be given a masterclass in exactly what it might mean and how it should be done.

Local property tax review to take price rises into account – Doherty

Minister Donohoe welcomes initiative to further regulate event licensing

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, and Fine Gael TD for Dublin Central, Paschal Donohoe TD, has today (Tuesday) welcomed the signing of revised event licensing regulations by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly TD, and Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Paudie Coffey TD, saying the new structures will ensure that the confusion and conflict that arose last summer in respect of the scheduling of certain outdoor events is not repeated again in the future.

New concert licensing regulations to protect Marley residents - Mitchell

“New licensing regulations will help to protect the residents around Marley Park by tightening the requirements for holding concerts,” says Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown, Olivia Mitchell.

Fianna Fáil voted against the Fine Gael job creation strategy that’s working – Heydon

“Fianna Fáil voted against Fine Gael’s job creation strategy that has now been proven to work,” according to Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, Martin Heydon TD.