Patients due to undergo a procedure tomorrow will have to wait to hear from their local hospital to find out if their surgery can go ahead as up to 10,000 health support workers prepare to strike.
Wed, 19 Jun, 2019
The civil servant overseeing the broadband plan has strongly defended the project, insisting that any decision to halt it would “likely result in the marginalisation of rural communities.”
Wed, 08 May, 2019
The Taoiseach has said he has total confidence in Health Minister Simon Harris.
Fri, 08 Feb, 2019
Senior civil servants have been accused of blocking transparency on public spending after it emerged that 11 cost reviews of multi-million-euro public-private projects are still to be published months after the investigations finished.
Fri, 23 Mar, 2018
The controversial €23m sale of Harold’s Cross greyhound stadium that would wipe out the Irish Greyhound Board’s debts may take another six months to be finalised.
Mon, 15 Jan, 2018
Junior education minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor is under fire from some of her ministerial colleagues, who have described her comments on teachers’ pay as “deeply unhelpful”.
Fri, 25 Aug, 2017
Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe has confirmed the Irish priorities set to be copper-fastened in a key European Council Brexit document this weekend will "underscore" the possibility of a united Ireland border poll taking place in the future.
Fri, 28 Apr, 2017
LATEST: The Minister for Public Expenditure, Paschal Donohoe, has criticised the religious congregations for not applying the moral code they expect of others to themselves.
Fri, 10 Mar, 2017
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Sat, 01 Oct, 2016
The Government will not base the upcoming budget on claims Ireland’s economy surged by 26.3% last year, despite insisting that the eye-catching rate is “not wrong”.
Thu, 14 Jul, 2016
Tue, 01 Dec, 2015
Heartbreaking scenes unfolded in Wexford town yesterday as relatives of Thomas and Sylvia Connors and their children were flanked by mourners while the funeral convoy made its way to their final resting place.
Sat, 24 Oct, 2015
THE announcement of a €27bn capital plan to drive the development of infrastruce yesterday is very welcome, even if some of the timescales mentioned suggest we are trying to hold an All-Ireland final on Mars now water has been found there, rather than build a few miles of railway in Dublin.
Wed, 30 Sep, 2015
Just weeks before the budget, business group Ibec yesterday stepped up its campaign to persuade the Government that spending big on infrastructure will help rebalance the skewed over-development of Dublin that it says is disadvantaging other regions.
Fri, 18 Sep, 2015
Nurses may take industrial action later this month to highlight continuing overcrowding in emergency departments.
Wed, 02 Sep, 2015
Even the National Association of Anticlimaxes would have refused the spring statement entry to its ranks for fear of reducing its already disappointing reputation to an all-time low in the minds of right thinking people.
Wed, 29 Apr, 2015
The Government yesterday committed to ensuring almost half of the membership on all state boards in future are women, as it launched a transparent process for appointments to agencies and bodies.
Fri, 06 Feb, 2015
For the first time in almost a decade there are signs that our banking system is getting back to normal, beginning to operate within proper parameters and finally lending to businesses, home buyers, and other credit worthy customers.
Sat, 01 Nov, 2014
The Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin is downplaying fears that services will need to be scaled back by councils who cut the property tax.
Tue, 23 Sep, 2014
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Mon, 22 Sep, 2014
HSE plans to save money by filling key hospital roles with interns and graduate nurses is putting budgets before patients’ lives.
Tue, 20 May, 2014
We’ve been here before, haven’t we? We have done the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. We have phoned Liveline in our masses, watched politicians kick the problems around like footballs and read all the newspaper column inches dedicated to our rage.
Sat, 18 Jan, 2014
The system for reviewing civil servants’ prospects of getting pay rises and promotions has been described as flawed by Fine Gael TDs after fewer than 1% of workers received a negative review.
Tue, 10 Dec, 2013
Joe Lyons could not have been more pleased to hear about a school maintenance fund being restored after discovering a leaking roof when pupils returned from their mid-term break this week at Ballybrown National School outside Limerick City.
Fri, 08 Nov, 2013
As the Government prepares to unveil the latest austerity budget, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted the main focus of this year’s budget is to exit the bailout programme and provide incentives for job creation.
Tue, 15 Oct, 2013
Labour TDs want to see leader Eamon Gilmore give up foreign affairs and “spend more time in Ireland”, a Cabinet colleague has warned as the pre-budget war of words within the Coalition intensified.
Mon, 07 Oct, 2013
Schools are operating smoothly but atmospheres could become more intense if industrial action by 16,000 teachers continues for much longer, a management leader has said.
Fri, 04 Oct, 2013
Almost 16,000 secondary teachers may have to escalate to strike action soon as the Government insists it will not talk to their union about the Haddington Road deal they rejected.
Thu, 03 Oct, 2013
Bankers living abroad and other high-ranking officials linked to the night of the bank guarantee will be compelled to attend the Government’s promised banking inquiry under new powers announced.
Sat, 18 May, 2013
Slow allocation of staff, poor communication, and inadequate planning were among the main causes of delay to thousands of student grants, an independent review has reported.
The Public Expenditure and Reform Minister is warning that time is running out on reaching an agreement to resume the public-sector pay talks.
Thu, 09 May, 2013
Plans for targeted voluntary redundancy packages for 2,300 public service workers will be brought to Cabinet tomorrow as talks continue on renegotiating Croke Park.
Mon, 21 Jan, 2013
As the screw turns, rural households are first in line to be pushed below — or further below — the poverty line.
Thu, 15 Nov, 2012
It has been reported that the Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin is planning to cut TDs' and senators' travel and subsistence perks and other allowances in December's Budget.
Sun, 04 Nov, 2012
Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has said that he has been advised that he cannot block pay rises for high earners in the public service.
Wed, 10 Oct, 2012
Minister for Health James Reilly has reportedly claimed the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste were aware of his controversial move to place two primary care centres in his own constituency.
Sun, 07 Oct, 2012
The Public Expenditure Minister says the Croke Park Agreement is changeable but there's no reason to tamper with something that's delivering.
Tue, 11 Sep, 2012
Independent TDs and senators received €713,885 in unvouched and untaxed allowances on top of their salaries last year.
Thu, 31 May, 2012
Opposition parties are hitting out at the Government's proposals on the sale of some state assets.
Wed, 22 Feb, 2012
Legislation on the reduction of judges' pay has been published by the Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin.
Sat, 19 Nov, 2011
Ireland’s three biggest banks have told the Government they will not pass on the European drop in interest rates to tens of thousands of struggling mortgage holders.
Wed, 09 Nov, 2011
THE €3.4 billion hole in pension funds of semi-state companies has tied the hand of the Government in deciding how to proceed with the sale of state assets.
Mon, 22 Aug, 2011
THE Government has confirmed it is to standardise leave arrangements for public servants to eradicate holiday entitlements which are “wildly out of line with those in the private sector”.
Sat, 14 May, 2011
The Government will reveal proposed changes to its EU/IMF bailout deal today.
Fri, 15 Apr, 2011
THE Government has denied that a row over Cabinet positions was the reason for a delay in Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, revealing his new ministerial line up to the Dáil yesterday evening.
Thu, 10 Mar, 2011
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