Fergus O'Dowd, TD

Fine Gael Senator for Dublin Catherine Noone, has today (Thursday) condemned the fleecing of tourists when making card transactions in foreign currencies, via a little-known practice called Dynamic Currency Conversion.

Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Patrick O’Donovan, has today (Wednesday), called for bonus points to be introduced for Physics, Chemistry and Applied Maths based on the success of the bonus points for maths.

The Government today announced funding of €500,000 in emergency response to the devastating conflict and unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq, with a focus on minority groups and vulnerable women and children.

Fine Gael Cork North Central Senator, Colm Burke, has advised that as young people make career choices, college construction courses and construction-related apprenticeships deserve careful consideration.

Minister of State at the Department of Finance and Fine Gael TD for Wicklow-East Carlow, Simon Harris, today (Tuesday) welcomed Michael McGrath's new found support for Finance Minister Michael Noonan's efforts to continue to reduce the debt burden on the Irish people.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Transport and Communications Committee, John O’Mahony has, today (Tuesday), appealed to Irish Rail employees

Minister Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, TD, has expressed his concern over the case of Ibrahim Halawa, the Irish citizen who has been detained in Egypt since August 2013.

Frances Fitzgerald T.D, Minister for Justice and Equality, has today published the report submitted to her by Judge Michael Reilly of his investigation into the handling of warrants in the case of Celyn Eadon.

Fine Gael Cork North Central Senator, Colm Burke, has today (Tuesday) stated that the Government is determined to proceed with the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014. He was speaking after it emerged that German politicians and lobby groups had been exerting pressure on the Irish Government to deter them from introducing plain packaging on cigarettes, as they feared it would damage the Irish economic recovery in some way.

Fine Gael Senator for Dublin Catherine Noone, has today hit out at claims by German politicians and lobby groups that the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes would somehow damage the Irish economic recovery.