GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Paul Kehoe TD has welcomed the official start to work on the N11 Arklow to Rathnew dual carriageway road project after Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar turned the sod on both schemes.

Speaking in Geneva today (Tuesday), where he is chairing an informal meeting of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs taking place alongside the 102nd International Labour Conference, jointly organised by the ILO and the Irish Presidency of the European Union, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, said:

Fine Gael Waterford Deputy, Paudie Coffey, has welcomed the opening by Minister for Sport, Michael Ring TD, of the new running track at the Regional Sports Campus (RSC) in Waterford City. Deputy Coffey said he was pleased to be able to intervene at a critical stage last year with the Minister to ensure the project proceeded.

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which it is intended to use Ireland's influence in the course of its Presidency of the EU to positively influence the situation in Syria...