There are mounting fears that Phase Four of the country’s re-opening will be postponed amid concerns about the renewed spread of the Coronavirus.

In April 2016, then Fine Gael health Minister Leo Varadkar arrived at the South Dublin home of Fianna Fáil TD Jim O’Callaghan. The two were not friends.

A large majority, 66%, of migrants working in meat plants that have experienced outbreaks of Covid-19 do not believe their employer has done enough to protect them from the virus, a Dáil committee has heard.

Perfect storm for parents as fears hundreds of facilities will stay shut

The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has been elected as President of the Eurogroup of Finance Ministers.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar admitted that two out of every five childcare providers are unlikely to re-open in September, under questioning in the Dáil.

A full waiver of commercial rates for small businesses until the end of the year is “quite likely” and will form a central plank of the Government’s job’s stimulus package, to be announced this month.

Irish banks are “very unlikely” to relieve up to 140,000 mortgage and business customers on payment breaks of interest charges on their loans, despite controversy over the practice.

Speaking during his first Leaders’ Questions as Taoiseach, Mr Martin said it was particularly regrettable that the company closed in the context of Covid-19.

About 10,000 fewer new houses will be built this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, even if the economy opens up again, the Central Bank has warned.