News & Statements

Update: Student Accommodation, 1st July 2015

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent, if any to which a deficit in student accommodation has been identified within the catchment area within the various third level institutions...

Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Finance

To ask the Minister for Finance if persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through Airbnb are eligible to Rent-A-Room Relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend Rent-A-Room Relief to persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through Airbnb; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

When disaster strikes: How the EU can help protect women’s and girls’ health and rights

Imagine how it must feel to be separated from your family, forced to flee your home and then find yourself living in a tent, among strangers, vulnerable to sexual violence. Imagine giving birth in these unsafe and unhygienic circumstances, or caring for a newborn baby, or simply trying to keep yourself clean and healthy so that you can get on with the mammoth task of rebuilding your life, your home, your community.