A former Junior Health Minister's renewing calls for more stringent regulation of the sector.

Disability Campaigners are calling for a full cabinet Minister to deal with the sector.

The construction industry continued to grow last month, extending its sequence of expansion to just shy of two years despite the weakness of the euro weighing on businesses.

Back at the start of its reign, this Government — under Finance Minister Noonan —decided that to try to get ends to move closer together it would dip into private sector pensions by imposing a levy on the capital sums that had accrued.