Fine Gael Senator for Louth/East Meath, Jim D’Arcy, has this week called on all Fianna Fáil candidates to clarify their position on whether they will go into government with Sinn Féin as many seem to be definitively at odds with their party leader.

Fine Gael TD for Dublin South Central, Catherine Byrne, has welcomed the positive employment figures for Dublin released this week by the IDA, saying that continued job creation will keep the recovery going in Dublin.

Fine Gael TD for Laois/Offaly, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, has said that recent flooding is alerting us to the fact that climate change is real and that the Oireachtas Environment Committee report from July 2012 should be considered in decisions made to deal with the issue. Deputy Corcoran Kennedy was speaking in the Dáil on the recent Shannon flooding.

Speaking in the Seanad, Government Chief Whip and Senator for Kerry, Paul Coghlan, said that cost creep and price gouging in the tourism sector is totally unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

Fine Gael TD for Limerick and Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party, Dan Neville, was one of only two Irish delegates to join the Minister for Children, James Reilly for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.

Fine Gael TD for Louth and Member of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, Peter Fitzpatrick, has said that Ireland’s first ever National Physical Activity Plan will aim to get half a million more people taking regular exercise.

Fine Gael TD for Sligo/Leitrim, Tony McLoughlin, has said that today’s meeting with a company hoping to provide a follow up mammography service at Sligo University Hospital, is another welcome step in the HSE’s procurement process.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD has said that Fianna Fáil’s failure to commit to abolishing the USC is further proof that the party has no real plan for the economy.

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown, Alan Shatter, has warned voters that a vote for Shane Ross and his fellow Independent Alliance candidates could amount to a vote for Sinn Féin.

Fine Gael Senator for Cork North Central, Colm Burke, has today (Monday) welcomed the commencement of the Fines (Payment & Recovery) Act 2014. The introduction of this legislation means that the non- payment of fines will no longer result in prison sentences except as a last resort, instead the fine can be deducted from a person’s earnings by way of instalments.