A delegation from the FAI, including former chief executive John Delaney, is appearing before the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport today.

Why a national sporting body needed a €100,000 bridging loan from its chief executive, when it received in the region of €50m state funding over a 10-year period, is a key question John Delaney must answer when he appears before an Oireachtas committee.

RTÉ does not seek to balance perspectives in its current affairs programming on topics such as climate change, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

The Department of Justice has been accused of an “utterly scandalous” approach in wrongly refusing redress to some women who worked in Magdalene Laundries.

There are calls for politicians to do as little campaigning as possible on the forthcoming abortion referendum.

A group representing one-parent families is demanding a statutory maintenance agency after a survey showed that some families are owed as much as €6,000 per child.

Expectant parents of babies with fatal foetal conditions who travel to Britain for a termination have to use freezer bags in order to keep their bodies cold in coffins when crossing back over the Irish Sea, the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment will hear today.

The cross-party Oireachtas committee examining the abortion laws is split over calls for it to issue an early formal show of support this week for repealing the Eighth Amendment.

Three other borrowers sat alongside Thomas Ryan in Leinster House and waived their anonymity to give emotional testimony of the impact mortgage overcharging has had on them.

Prof Malone said if abortion is not legalised in Ireland, it is vital to access to the British system - which has given terminations to as many as 184,000 Irish women since 1970 - continues.

Calls have been made on Michael Lowry to step aside from an Oireachtas committee because of his perceived links to businessman Denis O’Brien.

The Irish Farmers Association has said there were more than 2,500 reported crimes affecting farm families in the first half of last year.

An Oireachtas committee probing the GSOC crisis has expressed “alarm” at Alan Shatter’s failure to back up his Dáil statement that the ombudsman’s office was not bugged.