Double-jobbing former Fine Gael TD Dara Murphy has broken his silence on criticism from Fine Gael over claiming expenses in the Dáil while also working in Brussels.

The financial and governance farrago which has engulfed the Football Association of Ireland could see the country’s international teams and the League of Ireland driven out of existence.

At a meeting of the Oireachtas committee on health, Solidarity-People Before Profit TD, Bríd Smith, said many of the missing slides had serious misreadings.

It has emerged that Ms Chambers, who was cleared in an initial voting controversy, also voted on behalf of her party colleague Timmy Dooley in the Dáil in January.

Mr Coveney told the Dáil that it was “not acceptable” that human error was to blame for the four prizes being left out of the scratch card games.

Minister for Health Simon Harris has denied he displayed “a lack of empathy” with the women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal who recently learned that they had received incorrect results.

The Defence Forces’ training camp in the Curragh features “bad sanitary conditions” and is "not fit for anybody”, members of an Oireachtas Committee claim.

Councillors look set to get a €8,000 pay rise but could be asked to abide by stricter rules for their expenses.

An Oireachtas Committee has recommended more be done to move people who have had asylum applications granted out of direct provision.

The chair of the board tasked with overseeing the building of the new national children’s hospital will tell a committee tomorrow that contractor claims “have not had a material impact to date”

It’s hard to escape the feeling that Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty’s appearance before her own Oireachtas committee yesterday was anything but an embarrassing car crash for her personally.

“We are particularly conscious that in many parts of Ireland - and in rural Ireland especially - that the numbers of children cycling to school have fallen off a cliff.”

A Central Bank review of dual or differential pricing in the insurance sector will not make its first findings until the end of 2020, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.

Minister Joe McHugh has been accused of stonewalling an Oireachtas Committee for a year-and-a-half on the future of third-level education.

Secretary-General of Justice Aidan O’Driscoll told the Oireachtas committee relating to his department that “as a secretary-general of two departments I can say this could have happened in any department”.

Irish Water has agreed to come before an Oireachtas committee next month over this week's water crisis.

FAI council members convening for their quarterly meeting today will be updated on the status of the 2018 annual accounts, which may not be available until December.

An Oireachtas committee has heard that bogus self-employment is rife across industries in Ireland, representing a “massive” problem.

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has no legal basis for the imposition of self- employed status on many workers, its Oireachtas committee is expected to hear today.

The government has made little or no progress in tackling online abuse, child sexual exploitation, harassment and intimidation despite numerous investigations, an Oireachtas committee has been told.

Free contraception for both women and men now looks set to be delayed until 2021, despite a promise by the government to guarantee access in the wake of the abortion referendum.

The current deficit means the health service will likely require another large bailout, despite being given a record budget in 2019.

Minister Richard Bruton has strongly backed fellow Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey to represent the party in the next election following her “swing-gate” controversy.

Kya deLongchamps says it’s time to bail out that household water waste before further changes to water policy sink your plans with a major bill.

The Government’s multi-billion euro broadband plan is at risk of being derailed after an Oireachtas committee called for a three-month freeze of the project to force a re-examination of its €3bn cost and the entire tendering process.

A review carried out by the Communications Committee concluded the existing plan is based on a flawed tendering process and ignored viable alternative options.

Residents in Skerries in North County Dublin are appealing Fingal County Council's decision to allow a new fast food drive-thru to be built in Skerries.

With fears that a no-deal Brexit will bring cross-border trade to a halt, John Hearne examines what it will really mean for buyers here.

New “care centres” for old and injured greyhounds must have facilities for other animals.

Sport Ireland CEO John Treacy has laid bare the perilous financial state of the FAI with a series of troubling revelations, the most stark of which is that they are currently in discussions with Uefa about a bailout package that would ensure they can operate for the next 12 months.

The organisation responsible for the development of sport in Ireland said it cannot give assurances that the FAI is solvent, and that it would expect football’s international governing bodies to “bail out” the association if it were to go into liquidation.

Sport Ireland has said it supports Minister Shane Ross’ call for FAI president Donal Conway not to seek re-election to the board of the football association of the football association.

The Chair of Sport Ireland says Donal Conway should not continue as FAI President.

Planners have concentrated transport investment in the east of the country to the detriment of other regions.

The Government is not in the business of providing bailouts to bust builders the Finance Minister has said.

The Regional Internet Service Providers Association (RISPA) claims it could deliver an alternative to the National Broadband Plan for just over €400m.

More than 30 environmental and human rights groups have delivered a devastating critique of the Government's Climate Action Plan describing it as lacking detail, ambition and urgency.

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has accused insurers of exaggerating the number of fraudulent claims to justify the rising cost of premiums.

Ireland has paid €60bn interest on its National Debt over the last 10 years.

The National Broadband Plan's tendering process was not fit for purpose, according to Fianna Fáil.

The former state telephone company, Eir, will today claim it could have delivered the Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) for under €1bn, one-third of its estimated final cost.

The Government has been warned its Climate Action Plan will hurt rural Ireland and stop families buying tractors and burning turf.

John Earley, chairman of the Schoolboys Football Association of Ireland (SFAI), has resigned from the board of the FAI.

Safeguards must be put in place around the use of reduced timetables, which are a “daily reality for many vulnerable students” that disproportionately affect the most marginalized, an Oireachtas committee has heard.