A design team will now be appointed to progress the €7.85 million rehabilitation unit planned for Roscommon University Hospital, according to Senator Maura Hopkins.

“Today I had positive and constructive discussions with the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister Eoghan Murphy.

A new Apprenticeship app being launched in Limerick today can open up a world of possibility, a Fine Gael TD has said.

A new central portal for people to participate in public consultations will greatly benefit anyone who wants to stay engaged with policy formation, a Fine Gael TD has said.

A Bill sponsored by the extreme Solidarity/People Before Profit Group will damage economic development and jobs in the Cork region according to Fine Gael Senator Jerry Buttimer.

Dublin Senator, Catherine Noone, has called for a duty of care obligation to be introduced for social media companies, to ensure they do more to help protect people from online abuse and harassment.

“Ongoing Government investment in infrastructure is good for the development of the Western Region, a Fine Gael Senator has said. Speaking in a Seanad debate with Transport Minister Shane Ross this week, Mayo Senator John O’Mahony highlighted a number of projects benefitting the west and also urged that Government investment in the region should continue.

Following on from the announcement made on 17 July at an event held at the Grangegorman campus of Dublin Institute of Technology in the presence of An Taoiseach, of a significant 2018 funding allocation of €4.4 million to the three Dublin based Institutes of Technology – Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown and Institute of Technology, Tallaght – who are seeking designation as the State’s first technological university, the Minister of State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D., today (21 September 2018) announced the allocation of a further €6.8 million in funding in support of the ongoing restructuring of the higher education landscape this year.

Enhanced regulation is needed for security companies carrying out court orders, a Fine Gael TD has said. 

Fine Gael TD and Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Hildegarde Naughton, has condemned the intimidation of a Garda on social media.