Regulator claims proposed change inconsistent with Government’s retail planning guidelines

He was responding to a report that Dubliners are to face increased parking charges, tolls, social housing rents and commercial rates next year because of a failure to adequately fund the city.

The Water Forum has said there is an over reliance on the Liffey to supply Dublin with drinking water.

Eoghan Murphy has admitted that the number of people in emergency accommodation “continues to be a huge problem.”

There are no plans to introduce mandatory identification for voters at polling stations, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government has told councillors in Kerry where there has been disquiet over the registration and identification of voters.

The announcement came after Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, finally agreed that his department would co-fund the redesign of the weir in Fermoy.

An Bord Pleanála has turned down an appeal by the minister against a decision of Kildare County Council to refuse her department planning permission for a proposal to allow turf cutting at Coolree Bog near Prosperous, Co Kildare.

Caherdaniel, the home of the 19th century Liberator Daniel O’Connell, is also one of a number of coastal villages and towns without any public sewerage and waste water treatment.

Elections for Limerick’s first directly elected mayor are to be held in 2021.

Conor Kane has been appointed as South East correspondent with RTÉ News.

County Kerry leads the way this year with 13 blue flag beaches, followed by Donegal with 11 and Mayo with 10 blue flags

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said that the Government’s €200m home-loan scheme has been a success, despite finance officials warning it posed a risk to the State.

Latest: The Cabinet has been meeting in Sligo this morning as it prepares to unveil its investment plans for the country for the next 25 years.

Cork County Council would immediately relinquish commercial rates and local property tax (LPT) worth in excess of €16m per year if its revised plan for the city council boundary extension is accepted by the Implementation Oversight Group.

Years of pro-cyclical policies contributed to the crash that caused a decade of inactivity, says Housing Minister Simon Coveney.

The longest Greenway in Ireland is due to open tomorrow, Saturday, March 25.

The minister responsible for water charges says he will not introduce any scheme which does not charge people for wasteful usage.

The Government is promising that its new plan to develop all of Ireland will not make in the same mistakes as the previous national spatial strategy.

Cork-headquartered Voxpro will grow employee numbers in its home city by a further 400 over the next 12 months.

Almost 20 years after it was established and eight years after it last held a public hearing, the bill to the taxpayer for the Mahon tribunal keeps on mounting.

A father of five from Co Cork who has saved two people from drowning in separate incidents over the last decade, will be among 47 people from across the country who will today be rewarded for the bravery they showed in water rescues.

A company which specialises in helping businesses monitor and manage cleaner and more efficient processing solutions is to create 50 new jobs, almost doubling its workforce, with most of the new employees based at its headquarters in Co Cork.

Question: Can you briefly set out what legislation you, in government, would put forward to address the ongoing housing crisis and in particular the issues of homelessness, rising rents and the inability to get started on the housing ladder.