Richard Bruton, TD

Dr James Reilly TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, has today announced that €2.5 million in capital funding has been allocated to 163 grantees. The 2014 Early Years Capital programme was open to community not-for-profit services, reflecting the Minister’s commitment to securing the sustainability of community services, particularly in disadvantaged areas.

Fine Gael TD for Cork North Central, Dara Murphy TD has, today (Wednesday), taken his seat for the first day as Minister of State at the Departments of An Taoiseach and Foreign Affairs with Special Responsibility for European Affairs and Data Protection.

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe today announced that Fáilte Ireland, Tourism Ireland and Dublin’s tourism industry were stepping in to ensure that the many thousands of Garth Brooks’ fans would still have a weekend to remember if they went ahead with their travel plans to the city in the last weekend of July.

To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his response to concerns expressed by those in the Irish airline industry regarding the proposal in the draft National Policy for Aviation which would permit non-EU/USA airlines pick up passengers in competition with EU airlines?

The Government decision in relation to Ministers of State is as follows: Fine Gael Ministers of State

Brian Hayes, Fine Gael MEP for Dublin, has welcomed today’s election of Jean-Claude Juncker as the new President of the European Commission.

Fine Gael Party Chairperson and TD for Limerick, Dan Neville, has appealed for assurance from Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, that disabled people will still be able to claim excise relief on fuel as we change to the new Fuel Grant Scheme in 2015.

Fine Gael Clare Senator and Seanad Spokesperson on Disability and Equality, Martin Conway, has called on his fellow Senators to support the Fine Gael Private Members Motion that is due to be debated in the Seanad tomorrow (Wednesday), which calls for the establishment of a national vision strategy.

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community is actively engaged in and committed to achieving a resolution to the issues in Nigeria...