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Rising car sales injects €145.5 million extra into the Exchequer – Griffin

Fine Gael Kerry TD and Member of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications, Brendan Griffin, has welcomed a major boost to the exchequer provided by an increase in VRT and VAT as a result of a sharp increase in car sales.

25th September 2014

Roscommon and Leitrim sports clubs to benefit from extension of rate exemptions – Hopkins

Fine Gael candidate in the Roscommon/South Leitrim bye-election, Maura Hopkins, has welcomed the announcement by Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Simon Harris, that an amendment is to be made to ease the rates burden on many local sports clubs.

25th September 2014

Govt following through on promise of new children’s hospital - Buttimer

Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, Jerry Buttimer, has welcomed the announcement by Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar TD, that international design practice, BDP, have been appointed as architects for the new children’s hospital on the St. James’s Hospital site in Dublin 8.

24th September 2014

Hopkins welcomes Disadvantaged Areas Scheme payments worth €13.6m to Roscommon and Leitrim farmers

Fine Gael candidate in the Roscommon/South Leitrim bye-election, Maura Hopkins, has today (Wednesday) welcomed the announcement by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney that the 2014 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, worth some €149m nationally, has started issuing, on schedule, today.

24th September 2014

Address by the Taoiseach to UN Secretary General’s Climate Change Summit, New York, 23 September 2014

Global warming is a stark reality that can only be dealt with by a collective global response. We are all interdependent and interconnected... we share a common humanity... and each of us must play our part.

23rd September 2014

It's all "mé féin" for Sinn Féin as they cop out on tough decisions in North– O’Donovan

Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Patrick O’Donovan, has said that Sinn Féin’s reluctance to take the hard decisions in Government in the North shows they lack the resolve and foresight to do the job south of the border.

23rd September 2014

Minister Flanagan launches landmark outreach programme to engage students in global affairs

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, TD, today launched a landmark programme to engage Irish students in international affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s work to promote Ireland’s interests and values around the globe.

23rd September 2014

New Fund for Agri-Business Start Ups recognises importance of this sector for Rural Ireland – Heydon

Fine Gael TD for Kildare South and Chair of Fine Gael’s Internal Committee on Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Martin Heydon, has today (Tuesday) welcomed the launch by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation Richard Bruton of a new €250,000 Enterprise Ireland Competitive Feasibility Fund for start-up enterprises in the Agri-Business Sector.

23rd September 2014

Speech by Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Justice and Equality 22nd September 2014 Citizenship Ceremony Convention Centre, Dublin

Ladies and Gentlemen, You're all welcome. But I want to specially welcome you who will shortly become Ireland’s newest citizens.

23rd September 2014

Crucial funding and supplies from Ireland to help tackle Ebola - Breen

Fine Gael Clare TD and Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Pat Breen, has welcomed the announcement of €600,000 in funding and a major dispatch of emergency supplies to tackle Ebola in West Africa.

22nd September 2014

Hayes welcomes European Commission’s commitment to address extensive car hire complaints across EU

Fine Gael MEP for Dublin, Brian Hayes, today welcomed a commitment he has received from the European Commission to address the extensive number of complaints made each year against car hire companies across the EU.

22nd September 2014

Agriculture portfolio in the European Commission is a real coup for Ireland- Deering

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat Deering, has today (Wednesday) welcomed the news that Carlow Kilkenny Deputy Phil Hogan is to be made European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development.

10th September 2014