Peter Burke, TD

Fine Gael TD for Meath East, Helen McEntee, has highlighted the positive measures for young people in the Action Plan for Jobs (APJ) for 2015 which was announced today.

“Job creation since the launch of the Action Plan for Jobs in 2012 has been stronger in some areas than others, but the Action Plan for Jobs 2015 will have regional development at its core and will focus on growing jobs in the domestic economy”, says Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Chairperson of the Oireachtas Jobs Committee and TD for Laois/Offaly.

“The time for talking about providing the drug Soliris, which is used to treat the rare blood disorder paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is over. We must urgently find a solution and provide it to those who are currently in desperate need of it,” says Fine Gael TD for Meath East, Helen McEntee"

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of Educate Together Primary School Stepaside in Dublin 18 which is planned to progress to construction in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter?

To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will request of the Companies Registration Office to remove the inappropriate job description, married woman, from the list of occupations on the online form when registering online as a director of a company or charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 17 September 2014, if the review of personal pension vehicles has taken place; if the issue of extending the approved retirement fund options to holders of buy-out bonds derived from defined benefit schemes has been examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter?

The Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, T.D., today announced that he has decided to extend and re-focus support arrangements for farmers faced with the removal of persistently infected BVD calves born from their herds in 2015.

Fine Gael Senator for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat O’Neill, has called for an extension of the Child Benefit payment beyond the traditional age limit of 18 years, to all include all Leaving Cert students, saying the current age limit is unfair and divisive.

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Pat Deering, has today welcomed the Central Bank’s common sense approach to the issue of mortgage deposits, saying it is good news for first time buyers.

Fine Gael Longford/Westmeath TD, Gabrielle McFadden, has welcomed the Central Bank’s recognition of the financial pressures faced by young house hunters by not proceeding with a prohibitive 20% mortgage deposit proposal for first time buyers.