Fine Gael TD for Louth, Peter Fitzpatrick, has today (Friday) described Fianna Fáíl Leader, Michéal Martin, as having some nerve for blaming this Government for the withdrawal of funding by the EU for the Narrow Water Bridge project.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD and IDA Ireland today (Friday) welcomed the announcement by Deutsche Bank that the company is to create 700 jobs in Dublin in the coming years.

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs has today announced that she has allocated €900,000 in the current year to allow both Early Childhood Ireland and Border Counties Childcare Network to commence delivering training modules commencing before end 2013.

The Government today considered the Third Report of the Convention on the Constitution, Amending the Constitution to provide for same-sex marriage.

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs has today announced that she has allocated €900,000 in the current year to allow both Early Childhood Ireland and Border Counties Childcare Network to commence delivering training modules commencing before end 2013.

For as long as I have been involved in politics we have been talking about political reform, and recently I have heard people talk about so-called real political reform. I believe this Bill is genuinely reforming from a structural and administrative perspective and from a functional perspective.

To ask the Minister for Finance if the installation of a rainwater harvesting system qualifies for the home renovation incentive; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Bord na Móna and Coillte are not included under the Freedom of Information legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter?