The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton T.D. today [Thursday] stated that he intends to bring forward legislation to address the recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down Registered Employment Agreements.

In Brussels this morning, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste reached a political agreement with the European Parliament and the European Commission on the EU budget for the next seven years.

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has today said that data collated from European child helplines must act as a wake-up call for policy-makers on the scale of pressures and problems facing Europe's children and young people and therefore requires an EU-wide response.

Agreement reached on key €30bn Connecting Europe Facility Fund (CEF).

Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar has published the Road Traffic Bill 2013 following its sign-off by Cabinet.

Forum includes inventor of the SMS message, serial entrepreneurs in the tech, food and services sector and leading academic on entrepreneurship.

The Minister for Health Dr James Reilly and Minister of State Mr Alex White today (Thursday 27th June) welcomed the publication of the ESRI report Pharmaceutical Prices, Prescribing Practices and Usage of Generics in a Comparative Context.

Speaking following the agreement that was reached on the reform of the CAP, Fine Gael Cork North West Deputy, Áine Collins, congratulated the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney TD, on the successful conclusions of the negotiations, which took place during Ireland presidency of the EU. Deputy Collins went on to say that the agreement to abolish sugar quotas in 2017 is good news for Ireland and could pave the way for the re-establishment of the sugarbeet industry here which could result in the creation of much needed jobs.

The purpose of the Bill is to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to hold a referendum on the abolition of the Seanad in the Autumn.