Senator Garret Ahearn

Today marks a significant milestone in the development of Maynooth University as a highly modern, competitive and progressive university", says Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, Bernard Durkan. Deputy Durkan was speaking after the announcement of a €150 million development plan for Maynooth University.

Fine Gael Senator for Cork North Central and the Party’s Seanad spokesperson on Health, has criticised figures from the HSE which confirm that as much as 25% of Emergency Department visits charges have been left unpaid and uncollected.

Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Alan Kelly & Minister of State for Housing, Paudie Coffey, have today (18 February, 2015) welcomed a new €300m fund for investment in social housing.

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of a school in Dublin 16; her views on these concerns, in respect of the admissions policy for the new secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the local property tax allocation to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; the amount by which this sum exceeds the General Purposes Grant of 2014; the amount of that excess, which can be used for discretionary purposes; the amount which is to be allocated from the excess to the housing and road areas, in order to release central Government funding for other purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Speaking on Deputy Clare Daly's Fatal Foetal abnormalities Bill, Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown said, she "wished the solution were that simple".

I have said on the record on many occasions inside and outside the Chamber that I want to see in legislation a measure that would provide a legal framework for the termination of cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

Fine Gael TD for Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael TD, Gabrielle McFadden, has urged the HSE to expedite the recruitment of nurses to help alleviate overcrowding at the Midlands Regional Hospital.

Speaking on Deputy Clare Daly’s Fatal Foetal abnormalities Bill, Olivia Mitchell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown said, she “wished the solution were that simple”.

Fine Gael Dublin MEP, Brian Hayes, has today (Friday), said that a Special Committee agreed by the European Parliament Presidency, should not have the power to interfere with the European Commission's ongoing investigations into tax rulings of certain Member States, including Ireland.