Helen McEntee, TD

Fine Gael Dublin Senator Catherine Noone has today praised the supermarket chain Lidl as showing leadership and putting the health of its customers and their children above profiteering after it announced that it would no longer be selling sweets at checkout counters in its UK supermarkets. Senator Noone has written to Lidl Ireland urging them to do the same in their branches here.

Fine Gael TD for Roscommon/South Leitrim, Frank Feighan, has warmly welcomed Roscommon County Council’s decision to give the planning go-ahead to develop an ambulance base at the former Garda Station in Loughglynn, Co. Roscommon.

Fine Gael Kerry Senator and Seanad Chief Whip, Paul Coghlan, has today (Wednesday) appealed to both sides involved in the Liebherr dispute to engage in immediate dialogue. Senator Coghlan was speaking during Order of Business in the Seanad this afternoon.

Fine Gael TD for Waterford and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Paudie Coffey, has criticised the efforts by Fianna Fail to score political points in relation to the consultancy fees spent by Irish Water. Deputy Coffey was speaking following the Party’s Private Members Bill in Dáil Eireann.

Fine Gael Dun Laoghaire TD, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, has today (Wednesday) welcomed the fact that a plastic surgery app aimed at children as young as nine has been removed from iTunes and Google Play.

Funding of €32.5 million for almost 200 sustainable transport projects in the Dublin region from the National Transport Authority, including the further development of 47 cycle routes, has been announced by Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar and Minster of State for Commuter Transport Alan Kelly.

Fine Gael Dun Laoghaire TD, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, has today (Tuesday) welcomed almost €3.5 million in funding which is being allocated to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council by the National Transport Authority as part of the Sustainable Transport Measures Grants (STMG) programme.

Fine Gael Dun Laoghaire TD, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, has this evening (Tuesday) expressed her shock and concern at the content of a new plastic surgery app targeting children as young as nine. Deputy Mitchell O’Connor is calling on iTunes to remove the app from its online store.

The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, will today depart for the Gulf where he will lead a large Trade Mission in the Region. He will be accompanied by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, today announced the allocation of more than €12.5 billion in Common Agricultural Policy and exchequer funding to the agriculture sector in the period to 2020.