Damien English, TD

Oranmore native, Fine Gael Senator Hildegarde Naughton welcomed the announcement that Zimmer, a leading musculoskeletal health care company will create 250 new jobs which is part of a €51 million investment at a new Oranmore manufacturing facility.

“It is time for Fianna Fáil to stop feeding off the scraps of Government policy and to come up with their own jobs plan”. Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Fine Gael TD for Laois/Offaly and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Jobs Committee was speaking following the announcement of the Government's ambitious jobs targets this week.

“I have written to the Chair of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Liam Twomey, to appeal to him to invite Ulster Bank to come before the Committee to explain the closure of rural branches including Croom in Co. Limerick”, says Patrick O’Donovan, Fine Gael TD for Limerick.

Dara Murphy TD, Minister for European Affairs and Data Protection and Fine Gael representative for Cork North Central has today (Wednesday) said the opening of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in Cork University Hospital (CUH) will help to speedily diagnose and treat those living with the condition in Cork and the surrounding region.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD & the Minister for Justice & Equality Frances Fitzgerald TD have today visited Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park...

Cork North Central TD and Minister for European Affairs and Data Protection, Dara Murphy, today (Thursday) welcomed the announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly TD, that a statutory committee has been appointed to review the Cork City boundary and examine whether local authority structures in Cork should be merged.

“Sinn Féin’s Education Spokesperson, Jonathan O’Brien, is on the record as having said that education cuts result in a demoralised profession and an erosion of the goodwill that is so essential to the learning environment in classrooms.

“The M7/M9 upgrade is badly needed to ease traffic congestion in Kildare”, according to Martin Heydon and Anthony Lawlor, Fine Gael TDs for Kildare South and North respectively. The Kildare Deputies were speaking ahead of their joint Topical Issues Debate on the proposed road upgrade, with Minister for Transport, Paschal Donohoe in the Dáil today (Thursday).

“Nicotine patches for pregnant women would help protect mothers and their babies from smoking related harm. We must examine the possibility of making the nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) freely available to pregnant women,” says Catherine Byrne, Fine Gael Dublin South Central TD.

Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, John Paul Phelan, today (Thursday) congratulated Kilkenny animation company Cartoon Saloon for its Oscar nomination for ‘Song of the Sea’.