The Department of Justice spent over €2m on an adult offender reintegration unit at an apartment complex the State’s legal advisers failed to confirm could not be used due to red tape.

The Government is going to hit the unprotected in the budget, writes Claire O’Sullivan

THE Department of Social Protection missed its target for savings from welfare fraud last year, despite a serious crackdown on areas including cross-border fraud and disability benefit.

A PROCESS has commenced to get advice from the Attorney General on whether to appeal the court decision to allow Limerick pubs open on Good Friday for a big rugby game.

PUBLIC service staff are to hold a mass meeting later this month to discuss their ongoing industrial action in protest at the pay cuts announced in the last budget.

The alleged former leader of the IRA today launched a legal battle to block his trial for tax evasion.

The Department of Social and Family Affairs says it has saved almost €238m through anti-fraud measures in the first half of this year.

A workers’ rights helpline received 93,000 calls received from the public in 2007, it emerged today.

The Government will decide in late May if it will sue US pharmaceutical firms over contaminated blood products.

AN environmental group yesterday criticised the Government’s “culture of secrecy” after it barred public access to sensitive documents sent by the EU.