The appointment of an Online Safety Commissioner and an updated action plan on bullying in our primary and secondary schools are key measures in combatting the scourge of bullying and cyberbullying of young people, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Continued support from both Government and consumers is needed to ensure the full revitalisation of our towns and villages after the summer season as businesses claw back revenue lost to Covid-19, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Michael Collins Commemoration 2021 Speech

Proactive public safety measures are the only way to tackle bike thefts in Dublin with a marked rise in people cycling over the past year, according to Fine Gael TD Neale Richmond.

The current crisis in Kabul requires Western countries, who made up the international coalition in Afghanistan, to do everything still in their power to help the long-suffering Afghan people, and make development funding conditional on the protection of human rights, a Fine Gael Minister has said.  

Minister Peter Burke confirms that there will be no future ban on rural or one-off housing.

An additional €3 million in funding for mental health supports will help students as they return to third-level education this September, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Engagement should take place between Departments of Education north and south on proposals for a cross border university in the North West region, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Winter storms in February 2020, resulted in the collapse of a section of elevated bank slope along the northern bank of the River Feale, adjacent to Convent Street in Listowel, Co. Kerry. I am delighted that these remedial works will be undertaken to stabilise the river bank with the construction works expected to commence on-site in August 2021

Access to rent supplement for victims of domestic violence is due to expire at the end of 2021, and the recent signal from Government that the protocol will be made a permanent offering is very welcome, a Fine Gael Senator has said.