IT’S only right and fitting that Joan Walsh is a regular visitor to Árd Cúram, a day-care centre in Listowel — two decades ago she was on the original committee that set up the Listowel centre for the elderly.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is auctioning a watch on eBay.

The Department of Finance has said it is not aware of any investigations into Irish corporate tax affairs.

I wrote in Nov 2011 that the Oireachtas Referendum should be put to the people again with clarification re (1) people having recourse to the courts following an investigation, and (2) clarifying what (extreme) circumstances needed to be in place before investigators could enter a person’s home to seek out/remove possible evidence and (3) clarifying what made an issue qualify for being, “in the public interest”.

The Department of Finance says it is hoping that the Troika will agree to a lengthy extension of the repayment date for Ireland's bailout loans.

It has been reported that the Department of Finance has signed off on IBRC hiring another executive on an annual pay deal of more than €500,000.

The Department of Finance has announced its first ever head of Banking Policy in its Financial Services Division.

The owner of a French juice bar has been appointed secretary general of the Department of Finance.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has confirmed that the Central Bank last year paid €29.9m in fees to consultants for their work in the banking crisis.

Inquiries are underway at the Department of Finance about how details of the upcoming Budget were apparently given to German politicians.

Officials at the Department of Finance are insisting Ireland is still planning to return to the bond markets next year.

Officials from the IMF and the EU are continuing their examination of the books at the Department of Finance today.

PASSENGER numbers on the long-anticipated first phase of the Western Rail Corridor are falling far short of the projections made for the route.

The Cabinet has approved the setting up of a "compliance unit" in the Department of Finance for the IMF/EU bailout.

The Department of Finance has admitted that there has been contacts between Ireland and the EU about the country's debt problems, but insists a bailout is not being discussed.

A Canadian civil servant is to head up the group which will carry out a review of the performance of the Department of Finance over the past ten years.

THE Irish Examiner published an article on Wednesday, October 18, under the headline "'Bertie took payment when tax bid was already blocked'".

The Department of Finance is putting the brakes on the rise in Government spending.

A proposed tax on second homes has been ruled out by top civil servants.

TOTAL expenditure on the Government’s National Development Plan (NDP) is running some €4 billion below what was promised.

A DECISION by the Office of Public Works (OPW) not to proceed with plans to alleviate flooding on one of the busiest roads in the South East has been branded “shortsighted” by a local city councillor.

Political Correspondent Fionnan Sheahan examines the PAC inquiry findings into Charlie McCreevy’s fast-tracking of €15 million worth of funding for a project in his Co Kildare heartland.

STRIKING clerical workers in the Department of Agriculture are to take High Court action against the Government on Monday in a bid to have themselves put back on the payroll.

JACKIE CASEY couldn’t believe how the Government, as an employer, ignored discrimination in the Civil Service, while at the same time passing equality legislation that private sector employers had to implement.

The Department of Finance is pressing for new water bills on all households this year, according to reports.

The Dept of Finance and the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation [ODTR] have agreed the pricing of third generation [3G] phone licences.

Health Minister Micheal Martin has told the Irish Nurses Organisation's annual conference in Killarney that he has initiated a national review of bed capacity in the country's hospitals.