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Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Social Protection

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce the age limit from 24 years to 22 years in the jobseeker's allowance assessment for those living with a parent or a step-parent in the family home, so that parents' income will no longer be considered in the jobseeker's means test after the age of 22 years?

Govt following through on promise of new children’s hospital – Buttimer

Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, Jerry Buttimer, has welcomed the announcement by Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar TD, that international design practice, BDP, have been appointed as architects for the new children’s hospital on the St. James’s Hospital site in Dublin 8.

O’Donovan calls for commitment to Ports Policy

Fine Gael TD for Limerick and Member of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications, Patrick O’Donovan, speaking today (Wednesday) at the Transport Committee pre-legislative scrutiny on the Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2014,

Sport Ireland Bill to streamline sports development and policy – Fitzpatrick

Fine Gael TD for Louth, Member of the Oireachtas Health Committee and former Louth Senior manager, Peter Fitzpatrick, has welcomed the establishment of Sport Ireland, a new body which will combine the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus. Deputy Fitzpatrick was speaking in the Dáil today on the Sports Ireland Bill 2014.