Richard Bruton, TD

The Minister for Health Dr. James Reilly TD today (12 November 2013) announced changes to risk equalisation credits that will apply in the private health insurance market from 1st March next.

After years of lobbying Minister Coveney strongly welcomes the new approach from US authorities which opens the door for Irish and European beef imports.

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, TD, today concluded a week long visit to the Gulf States with a speech to the Dubai Irish Business Network, and an audience of potential buyers and business partners at Bord Bia’s Taste of Ireland Green Box Competition in Dubai.

Fine Gael Roscommon/South Leitrim TD, Frank Feighan, has welcomed the allocation by Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan TD, of €200,000 in LEADER funding to support a biomass processing business in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.

Fine Gael Roscommon/South Leitrim TD, Frank Feighan, has said that the improvements to the student grant awarding body, Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), have ensured that the system is now running much more efficiently and on schedule.

Fine Gael Meath East TD, Helen McEntee, has said that she hopes that the one month toll-holiday for HGVs kicking off on the M3 today (Friday) will be a success, and added that it should provide some short-term relief for residents of Slane village.

Today (11 November 2013), Dr James Reilly, TD, Minister for Health, announced that approximately 35 women, excluded on age grounds alone from the Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme in 2007, would be provided with ex gratia awards, which would bring final closure on the issue for them.

Latest live register figures issued by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) are a further indication that the Government is making significant progress in getting people back to work.