News & Statements

Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Finance

To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that the two pillar banks are approving loans but later imposing conditions so strict and so unreasonable as to prevent drawdown; if he will clarify if banks' claims of compliance with the €3 billion target is based on loans approved or on those actually drawn down?

Architecture Graduates caught in Catch 22

Fine Gael TD for Dublin South, Olivia Mitchell, has called on the Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, to allow graduate architects to avail of the JobBridge Scheme in order to get their professional qualification

Euro Area Loan Facility

I support the legislation which is aimed at the financial stability of Europe. It is not just Greece; it is this country and all of the other countries in Europe

JobBridge Scheme

I am raising this matter to ask the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, to allow graduate architects to participate in the JobBridge scheme to fulfil the employment condition in their registration as an architect.