Hildegarde Naughton, TD

Speaking this evening, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter TD, said “There has been understandable public interest in two cases which have come to light in recent days involving children with Roma families.

When I was last in the House during the summer, I was fulfilling a promise to the Irish people to hold a referendum on the future of the Seanad.

Social media giant needs to explain rational behind prohibition policy.

Fine Gael TD for Roscommon/South Leitrim, Frank Feighan, has said that the approval in the 2014 HSE Capital Plan of a multi-million euro Rehabilitation Unit planned for Roscommon Hospital is another landmark moment for the hospital. When built, the unit will operate as a satellite centre to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire and will operate under its auspices.

To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the national pay bill has been stabilised or reduced since he took up office...

To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which his Department has succeeded in making savings through insurance cost reductions and public procurement in each of the past two years to date...

I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on this particularly important and sensitive piece of legislation. I can reminisce on all the times that some of us spent on the other side of the House, which happens to be vacant, and to remember the number of occasions on which we were excluded from access to information which was urgent, relevant and relative to the running of the country...