The Minister of State at the Department of Finance and Fine Gael TD for Wicklow/East Carlow, Simon Harris, said today (Thursday) we cannot go back to Fianna Fáil’s chaos of five years ago.

Fine Gael Senator for Louth/East Meath, Jim D’Arcy has welcomed the successful conclusion of the talks process in Northern Ireland.

Speaking at the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly, Government Chief Whip in the Seanad, and Chair of the Sovereign Matters Committee of the Assembly, Paul Coghlan had an addendum to the plenary report, which proposed the new Joint Agency Task Force accepted unanimously.

Fine Gael MEP, Brian Hayes has called on universities and higher education colleges in Northern Ireland to produce an independent assessment of what Brexit would mean for the entire third level sector in the north.

Dublin Senator and Fine Gael candidate for Dublin West, Catherine Noone, has called for the Misuse of Drugs Act to be updated urgently, in order to empower Gardaí to quash new drugs which are currently emerging on the market.

Fine Gael TD for Dublin South Central, Catherine Byrne, today (Tuesday) welcomed the announcement that two schools in Dublin 8 will benefit from funding under a multi-million euro school building programme.

Fine Gael TD for Clare, Joe Carey, has helped to ensure that the process of finding a buyer for the Roche plant in Clarecastle, County Clare, remains high on the agenda of both the Government and State agencies.

“The latest QHNS figures, released by the CSO, show that the national unemployment rate has dropped to 8.9% and here in the South West there has been a 37.5% drop in the number of people who are unemployed”, says Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, Jerry Buttimer.

Fine Gael Dublin South Central TD, Catherine Byrne, has encouraged Dublin City Council tenants, as well as Local Authority tenants across the country, to consider the new tenant purchase scheme as a route to home ownership.