As part of his Budget 2015 speech to the Dáil today, Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin announced the end of the moratorium on recruitment (in the public service).

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has demanded that the Garda Representative Association (GRA) apologise to the people of Ireland for scathing comments which he says forced him to pull out of an address to the organisation's annual conference in Limerick.