Martin Heydon, TD

EU Employment Ministers under Irish Presidency approve European Council recommendations on employment and social policy reforms.

As part of Ireland’s EU Presidency, Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, is to host a two-day expert round-table event on the contribution of youth work to youth employment, commencing tomorrow Thursday 20th June.

New CSO figures out today confirm very strong growth in the number of holidaymakers who travelled to Ireland in the first three months of 2013 - the year of the Gathering – as well as increased revenue from overseas visitors, according to Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar.

GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Paul Kehoe TD has welcomed the official start to work on the N11 Arklow to Rathnew dual carriageway road project after Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar turned the sod on both schemes.

Speaking in Geneva today (Tuesday), where he is chairing an informal meeting of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs taking place alongside the 102nd International Labour Conference, jointly organised by the ILO and the Irish Presidency of the European Union, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, said: