Kieran O'Donnell, TD

Fine Gael Senator for Louth, John McGahon, has highlighted progress with the planned Primary Care Centre for Dundalk, with the identification of a preferred provider for the facility at the Carrolls site. Senator McGahon also called on the HSE to ensure there are no further delays in delivering this long-awaited local healthcare facility.

A Summer Education Programme is crucial for children with additional needs this year, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown, Neale Richmond, has urged the Minister for Sport and Tourism, Brendan Griffin, not to forget club sports as the country reopens.

The leaders of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party met for two hours this morning.

Following the unwillingness and inability of other parties to form a Government without us, Fine Gael agreed to enter talks with Fianna Fail and the Green Party with a view to forming a Government in the national interest.

Talks were going well.

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party met this afternoon to begin talks on drafting a Programme for Government.

Sligo- Leitrim Fine Gael TD, Frank Feighan, has said that difficulties faced by some workers with their broadband speeds and access whilst working remotely during the COVID19 outbreak emphasise the obvious and urgent need for greater broadband connectivity in rural Ireland.

A last-ditch effort by Richard Boyd Barrett to form a government of the hard left proves they are not remotely serious about it, a Fine Gael TD has said.

An Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has welcomed the statement from the Green Party today that it intends to start negotiations on a Programme for Government.