Fine Gael Waterford Minister has welcomed news from his Ministerial Colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and The Marine Simon Coveney TD that he has allocated in excess of €1 million for Dunmore East Harbour. Minister Coffey said that this funding will build on the significant capital investment that has gone into the village in recent years.

Looking into 2016, Fianna Fáil propose to spend, spend, spend. Yet they have provided no clarity on how they plan to do this.

The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, has said that workers who are due to benefit from reductions to the Universal Social Charge on January 1st would pay more tax under Fianna Fáil.

Fine Gael Waterford Minister Paudie Coffey has welcomed news from his colleague Minister for Transport , Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe TD that €1.14 million has been granted to Waterford Airport for 2015.

Fine Gael Waterford Minister Paudie Coffey, has today (Tuesday) welcomed the news that €2.39 million has been granted to Waterford for improvement and maintenance works on national roads.

“Fianna Fáil, the party that destroyed 300,000 jobs, still has no job creation plan”, according to Damien English, Fine Gael TD for Meath West and Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Fine Gael TD for Longford/ Westmeath Gabrielle McFadden has today (Tuesday) welcomed the news that €8.3 million has been granted to counties Longford and Westmeath for improvement and maintenance works on roads.

Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, and Chair of the Party’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Martin Heydon, has welcomed the requirement by Minister for Communications, Alex White, for commercial operators to sign up to commitment contracts for areas where they wish to provide broadband services. Without these contracts, the areas cannot be removed from the Government High Speed Broadband Map.

“All Sinn Fèin candidates planning to go before the people need to state if they share their party leader’s attitude to the justice system or if they support the courts?”, says Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Patrick O’Donovan.

Fine Gael TD for Laois/Offaly, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, has said that while the local response to recent flooding has been fantastic, preparations for more frequent incidents must be made as climate change becomes an issue.