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Local Government Housing Shortage Update 12th March 2014

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of families recorded as being in need of housing and registered on local authority housing waiting lists in each of the past ten years to date...

Unfinished Housing Estates Update – 12th March 2014

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he has received applications in his Department for funding from Kildare County Council to complete development works in unfinished housing estates...

Local Government Housing Shortage Update 12th March 2014

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of families recorded as being in need of housing and registered on local authority housing waiting lists in each of the past ten years to date...

Shared Ownership Loans Update – 12th March 2014

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which it has been found possible to address the serious anomalies in respect of shared ownership housing loans which he inherited...

Unfinished Housing Estates Update – 12th March 2014

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he has received applications in his Department for funding from Kildare County Council to complete development works in unfinished housing estates...

Butler welcomes new classrooms for Scoil Mhuire

Fine Gael Meath West TD, Ray Butler, has today (Monday) welcomed an announcement from the Department of Education that three new classrooms and a new technology room are to be built at Scoil Mhuire in Trim.

Butler welcomes new classrooms for Scoil Mhuire

Fine Gael Meath West TD, Ray Butler, has today (Monday) welcomed an announcement from the Department of Education that three new classrooms and a new technology room are to be built at Scoil Mhuire in Trim.

Latest revelations raise yet more questions about HPAT – Mitchell O’Connor

Fine Gael Dun Laoghaire TD and Chair of the Fine Gael Internal Education Committee, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, has today (Monday) said that the latest revelations about the HPAT (Health Professionals Admissions Test) raise yet more questions about the medical school entrance exam, which must be completed by Leaving Certificate students hoping to study medicine at third level.