“The latest CSO figures show that the number of new goods vehicles licensed in January 2015 was up by 47.5% from January 2014. New businesses are investing in vehicles and existing businesses are showing confidence by upgrading. This is a very good indicator of the strength of the economy”, says Brendan Griffin.

Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan, Joe O’Reilly said today (Monday) that a €36 million investment by Lakeland Dairies in its Bailieboro plant that will create 81 new jobs and up to 180 construction jobs demonstrates the recovery is spreading across Ireland.

Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown, said the Government announcement of a new primary school for the Goatstown/ Stillorgan area is welcome news for parents.

Today marks a significant milestone in the development of Maynooth University as a highly modern, competitive and progressive university", says Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, Bernard Durkan. Deputy Durkan was speaking after the announcement of a €150 million development plan for Maynooth University.

Fine Gael Senator for Cork North Central and the Party’s Seanad spokesperson on Health, has criticised figures from the HSE which confirm that as much as 25% of Emergency Department visits charges have been left unpaid and uncollected.

Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Alan Kelly & Minister of State for Housing, Paudie Coffey, have today (18 February, 2015) welcomed a new €300m fund for investment in social housing.

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of a school in Dublin 16; her views on these concerns, in respect of the admissions policy for the new secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the local property tax allocation to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; the amount by which this sum exceeds the General Purposes Grant of 2014; the amount of that excess, which can be used for discretionary purposes; the amount which is to be allocated from the excess to the housing and road areas, in order to release central Government funding for other purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Speaking on Deputy Clare Daly's Fatal Foetal abnormalities Bill, Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown said, she "wished the solution were that simple".

I have said on the record on many occasions inside and outside the Chamber that I want to see in legislation a measure that would provide a legal framework for the termination of cases of fatal foetal abnormality.