Jerry Buttimer, TD

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has today (Monday) launched the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025.

Achieving a United Ireland worth having will require patience, trust, compromise and imagination according to a Fine Gael TD.

Fine Gael Senator Mary Seery-Kearney has called for Ireland to follow New Zealand’s new policy to stamp out period poverty as a matter of urgency.

Local Authorities in Dublin should follow the example of Limerick and Galway and waive licence fees for outdoor dining and street events, a Fine Gael TD has said.

A new approach to Ireland’s banking and mortgage market should be examined using the large untapped potential of credit unions across the country, Fine Gael TD Michael Creed has said.

A person who is proven to have committed a crime aggravated by hatred will now face up to double the sentence than for ordinary forms of crime, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Sinn Féin must come clean on their controversial international database and admit whether they received consent to store, manage and harvest data from Facebook users for supposed electoral purposes, Fine Gael Minister of State Peter Burke has said.

Plans for a mass legal action over the recent Facebook data leak are a sobering reminder to social media giants of their privacy obligations, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

The news that KBC bank is seeking to exit the Irish market is yet another blow for Irish banking, Fine Gael TD and Member of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Neale Richmond, has said.