Fine Gael TD for Dublin South Central, Catherine Byrne, has today (Monday) welcomed the decision by the HSE to take Hollybrook Lodge, the community nursing unit at Inchicore, under the operational management of St. James’s Hospital. The move will free up lands for the new National Children’s Hospital in the process.

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Fine Gael Cork North West Deputy, Áine Collins, has welcomed the announcement today (Friday) of 61 new jobs for Cork. The jobs are to be created by two new companies who were introduced to Ireland through the Succeed in Ireland initiative which was part of the Action Plan for Jobs.

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community has been in a position to intervene in the various conflict zones where child soldiers have been used in combat...

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the on-going progress in respect of European enlargement...

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which it has been found possible, together with the international community, to convince the authorities in Syria...

This is déjà vu for some of us. We are reviewing an item we reviewed before, something that occurs with many pieces of legislation. A number of speakers have mentioned updating legislation. It is important that when we update legislation, it should remain updated. That should be the purpose of the exercise and we should not have to revisit it after a couple of years..

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community has been in a position to intervene in the various conflict zones where child soldiers have been used in combat...

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the on-going progress in respect of European enlargement...