Senator Paddy Burke

Following on from the announcement made on 17 July at an event held at the Grangegorman campus of Dublin Institute of Technology in the presence of An Taoiseach, of a significant 2018 funding allocation of €4.4 million to the three Dublin based Institutes of Technology – Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown and Institute of Technology, Tallaght – who are seeking designation as the State’s first technological university, the Minister of State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D., today (21 September 2018) announced the allocation of a further €6.8 million in funding in support of the ongoing restructuring of the higher education landscape this year.

Enhanced regulation is needed for security companies carrying out court orders, a Fine Gael TD has said. 

Fine Gael TD and Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Hildegarde Naughton, has condemned the intimidation of a Garda on social media.

Fine Gael Senator and spokesman on European Affairs, Neale Richmond, will host a two day fact finding mission of visiting MPs and academics from the continent, beginning tomorrow (Monday).

The apology by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald to Máiría Cahill over the party’s failure to have proper procedures in place for child abuse allegations is totally inadequate, Fine Gael Minister Regina Doherty has said.

Locally based Fine Gael Senator, Neale Richmond, has welcomed the launch of the new Land Development Agency which contains big plans for the Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum.

INSTEAD of attacking the Fine Gael-led Government which has brought the country out of the recession, Fianna Fáil should provide the electorate with detailed policies of their own, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Fine Gael Senator and Seanad Brexit Committee Chairman, Neale Richmond, has rubbished the paper produced by the backbench European Research Group on the Irish border in a post Brexit scenario; dismissing it as being wholly presumptive.

Fine Gael Senator and spokesman on European Union Affairs Neale Richmond has called on Fianna Fáil to provide detailed tangible solutions for Brexit rather than making a proposal with no detail.

Senator Joe O’Reilly today met with UK Labour Brexit spokesperson, Keir Starmer MP, as part of Irish efforts at dealing with Brexit.