Martin Heydon, TD

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if provision will be made to augment the direct local authority house building programme proposed in the recent budget ...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various relevant local authorities have brought to the attention of his Department the seriousness of the housing crisis...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if provision will be made to augment the direct local authority house building programme proposed in the recent budget ...

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various relevant local authorities have brought to the attention of his Department the seriousness of the housing crisis...

Fine Gael Senator for Dublin South-West, Cáit Keane, has today (Tuesday) called on the Minister for Health, James Reilly TD, to introduce measures to make life-saving adrenaline pens (EpiPens) more easily accessible in Ireland. EpiPens are used for the emergency treatment of life threatening allergic reactions.

€23m genomics programme places Ireland as world leader in beef breeding.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr Richard Bruton TD, today (Friday) said that the CSO goods exports figures show a remarkably robust performance by Irish exporters given everything that is happening in world markets.

Fine Gael Carlow TD, Pat Deering, has today (Tuesday) said a new revitalisation plan for Carlow will boost business opportunities and job creation in the town. The ‘Carlow Town Team Revitalisation Programme’, which has been launched this morning by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, features seven key supports with an investment of over €130,000.

Commissioner Martin Callinan, Assistant Commissioner Fintan Fanning, Deputies Noel Coonan, Alan Kelly and Michael Lowry, Mayor of Templemore Martin Fogary, distinguished guests, members of An Garda Síochána past and present, ladies and gentlemen.

I am very happy to have the opportunity to speak on this legislation, which I support. It has four main planks. The first and second planks are broadly the ban on salon sunbed use for children under 18 years of age and the prohibition on the sale and hire of sunbeds to children under 18 years of age. The third plank is mainly about regulation, registration, supervision, improved standards and inspection, which is very important in terms of ensuring eye protection is provided and so on. The fourth plank is about a health information campaign.