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Coffey announces funding for environmental assessments at Portlaw Cotton Mill

The long term remediation of former Irish Tanners site at Portlaw Co. Waterford is a step closer now following a commitment from Minister Paudie Coffey, T.D., to support a phased action plan by Waterford City and County Council to assess the environmental condition of the site and inform the investigation of the longer-term options for use of the site and to initiate remediation and reuse of the site.

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

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.

Situation in Hungary following the adoption of Assembly Resolution 1941

I want to thank Mr. Watters for his work on this report, which was considerable, given the range and complexity of the issues to be investigated. I also want to acknowledge the willingness and openness of the Hungarian authorities to engage with the Secretary General, with the Venice Commission and others in their efforts to implement the resolution of the Assembly in 2013.

Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht

To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider setting up a Government committee to prevent the loss of national treasures, similar to a committee operating in the UK, that can place temporary export bans on the most culturally important works following auction to allow local benefactors or museums to match the offers of foreign buyers; and if she will make a statement on the matter?

Update: Small Businesses in Financial Difficulty, 24th June 2015

To ask the Minister for Finance the extent, if any, to which sympathetic consideration and accommodation continues to be extended to small businesses...

Update: Small and Medium Enterprises, 24th June 2015

To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which lending institutions are encouraged to offer facilities to small and medium enterprises...

Update: Provision of Broadband, 24th June 2015

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the provision of modern high speed broadband...

Update: Natural Resources, 24th June 2015

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which an audit continues to be done in respect of the availability of natural resources...

Update: Loan Book Purchasers, 24th June 2015

To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which unregulated third party loan book purchasers have been acquainted with the need to ensure that the borrowers whose loan books they have acquired need to be treated in a sympathetic fashion...