News & Statements
New Housing Assistance Payment will help low income families to get suitable accommodation – Lawlor
Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, Anthony Lawlor, has today (Friday) welcomed the new Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme which he feels will assist working families on low income to find suitable accommodation.
Refund due to people with disabilities now eligible for LPT relief
Changes to Local Property Tax relief available to people with disabilities
Statement by the Minister for Finance
Taoiseach Enda Kenny travelling to West Coast USA for investment and jobs-focussed mission in Silicon Valley
Varadkar announces €300,000 boost for Dublin city centre tourism projects
A new visitor attraction at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and the development of a new whiskey museum on College Green are getting a funding boost today from Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar.
We need to make businesses more aware of Govt supports – English
Fine Gael Meath West TD and Chairman of the Oireachtas Jobs Committee, Damien English, has today (Tuesday) said that small businesses need to be made more aware of the various Government supports open to them. Deputy English was responding to the latest SME Credit Demand Survey, published by the Department of Finance.
€148 million for Ireland under the Common Fisheries Policy – McHugh
Fine Gael Donegal TD, Joe McHugh, has today (Thursday) welcomed the news that Ireland is to receive €148 million from the EU under the Common Fisheries Policy over the next six years. This represents a significant increase in the amount of EU funding available to assist Ireland’s seafood industry in implementing the new reformed Common Fisheries Policy.
€148 million for Ireland under the Common Fisheries Policy – Harrington
Fine Gael Cork South West TD, Noel Harrington, has today (Thursday) welcomed the news that Ireland is to receive €148million from the EU under the Common Fisheries Policy over the next six years. This represents a significant increase in the amount of EU funding available to assist Ireland’s seafood industry in implementing the new reformed Common Fisheries Policy.
2014 on target to be another year of growth in tourism – Varadkar
Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar has welcomed strong growth in the number of overseas visitors and those coming to Ireland for holiday purposes in the first three months of the year, as revealed in the today’s CSO figures.
Buttimer and Doherty urge HSE to allow patients to continue to receive vital MS drug
Fine Gael TDs and members of the Oireachtas Health Committee, Jerry Buttimer and Regina Doherty, have urged the HSE to take action to ensure Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients can continue to receive a new drug which is significantly improving their condition. The TDs were speaking after they met with MS sufferers using the drug.