ROBOT SUSPENDED

CONTROVERSIAL property tycoons, Liam Carroll and Bernard McNamara are pocketing millions for property they rent to the state — almost €117 million each year.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell, as well as being, by his own admission, intemperate, is also economical with the truth. On RTÉ’s Primetime programme of March 21, he said that overtime is now gone from the Prison Service.

The Central Applications Facility (CAF) which will allow public servants apply to participate in the Government's Decentralisation Programme with immediate effect, has been launched.

The Government has published a bill renovating the way civil servants are recruited, which it believes will aid the decentralisation process.