Brian Hayes MEP for Dublin today welcomed new EU measures which mean that as of January 1st Irish consumers buying goods and services from an online vendor in Europe will pay VAT at Irish rates.

“Sinn Féin is a high tax, high spend Party, obsessed with taxing work and putting the economic recovery in jeopardy,” says Simon Harris, Fine Gael TD for Wicklow/ East Carlow and Minister of State at the Department of Finance.

“It is important to understand the complexities around suicide and the complexity of the decision to take one’s life”, stated Dan Neville TD, Chairman of Fine Gael Parliamentary Party and President of the Irish Association of Suicidology.

The scheme generated 175 jobs, and a total of €15 million was invested in 540 projects across the country.

Fine Gael Meath East TD and Member of the Oireachtas Health Committee, Regina Doherty, has said she hopes that Fianna Fáil will finally deliver on its promise to produce its long awaited health policy.

Brian Hayes MEP today questioned the logic of the proposed 20% deposit rule given that the rental market in Ireland does not offer a proper alternative to home ownership for many people.

I wish to convey my heartfelt sympathies to the family and partner of the woman at the centre of this case at this most difficult time – particularly given the season.

“The number of planning permission applications approved has increased by 52% since this time last year. It will take some time for the effect of these approvals to filter through the housing sector but there is no doubt that this is good news”, says Regina Doherty, Fine Gael TD for Meath East.

Minister for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of Construction 2020, Paudie Coffey, TD, today published the third annual progress report on tackling the issue of unfinished housing developments which reveals...