“Sinn Féin’s socialist dream would nationalise the banks and tax families to the hilt, resulting in a nightmare for Irish people”, says Fine Gael TD for Wexford, Liam Twomey.

Fine Gael Dublin MEP, Brian Hayes, said today that "Now is the time for Irish exporters big and small to maximise the opportunities provided by a weak euro. Currently the euro is at a ten year low against the dollar and close to a six year low against sterling. It may go even lower as result of quantitative easing.

Oranmore native, Fine Gael Senator Hildegarde Naughton welcomed the announcement that Zimmer, a leading musculoskeletal health care company will create 250 new jobs which is part of a €51 million investment at a new Oranmore manufacturing facility.

“It is time for Fianna Fáil to stop feeding off the scraps of Government policy and to come up with their own jobs plan”. Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Fine Gael TD for Laois/Offaly and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Jobs Committee was speaking following the announcement of the Government's ambitious jobs targets this week.

“I have written to the Chair of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Liam Twomey, to appeal to him to invite Ulster Bank to come before the Committee to explain the closure of rural branches including Croom in Co. Limerick”, says Patrick O’Donovan, Fine Gael TD for Limerick.

Dara Murphy TD, Minister for European Affairs and Data Protection and Fine Gael representative for Cork North Central has today (Wednesday) said the opening of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in Cork University Hospital (CUH) will help to speedily diagnose and treat those living with the condition in Cork and the surrounding region.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD & the Minister for Justice & Equality Frances Fitzgerald TD have today visited Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park...

Cork North Central TD and Minister for European Affairs and Data Protection, Dara Murphy, today (Thursday) welcomed the announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly TD, that a statutory committee has been appointed to review the Cork City boundary and examine whether local authority structures in Cork should be merged.

“Sinn Féin’s Education Spokesperson, Jonathan O’Brien, is on the record as having said that education cuts result in a demoralised profession and an erosion of the goodwill that is so essential to the learning environment in classrooms.

“The M7/M9 upgrade is badly needed to ease traffic congestion in Kildare”, according to Martin Heydon and Anthony Lawlor, Fine Gael TDs for Kildare South and North respectively. The Kildare Deputies were speaking ahead of their joint Topical Issues Debate on the proposed road upgrade, with Minister for Transport, Paschal Donohoe in the Dáil today (Thursday).