Charlie Flanagan, TD

The onus is on the National Transport Authority to expedite the process of rolling out contactless payments on public transport, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

A Fine Gael Senator has said that reductions in the residential electricity unit rate must equally be applied to public chargers for electric vehicles.

A new, fit-for-purpose School Transport Scheme must be in place by April 20th, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Fine Gael is the first party to select more than 300 candidates for June’s local elections. With more selection conventions still to be held, Fine Gael has to date selected 301 candidates of whom 30pc are women.

The Hungarian government has failed to take climate action seriously and must now commit to Europe’s 2040 targets, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

James Geoghegan is the first General Election candidate to be selected by Fine Gael and will represent the party in the Dublin Bay South constituency.

Energy companies must cut prices more to ease pressure on householders, particularly as the colder weather sets in, a Fine Gael Senator said.

The mismanagement of our public finances and future tax hikes by Sinn Féin will short-change everyone and leave us facing an employment crisis, Fine Gael Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said.

23 out of 26 women who have completed a Fine Gael mentoring programme have been selected by the party to run in the upcoming Local Elections in June, bringing the party’s current total of women candidates to 84.  

Electronic shock collars are a harmful and cruel method of attempting to train dogs and must be banned, a Fine Gael Senator has said.