Minister of State for Local Government and Planning John Cummins has said that he does not view proposals to relax planning ...

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A new Oireachtas committee on defence and security will probe cyber safeguards in Irish institutions amid growing concern ...

Exemptions are being considered which would exempt free-standing modular or cabin-style homes from planning permission.

A Dáil exchange in which the Taoiseach is accused of charging Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald with “telling lies” has been ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has formally declined to apologise for claims that he said Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald was ...

Ms Carroll-MacNeill also said that she anticipated the final cost of the new hospital would be “close to” €2.24 billion and ...

Separate secret ballots will be held in Leinster House today to elect the Leas Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil and the Leas ...

Fine Gael’s John Cummins, Minister of State for Local Government and Planning, is understood to have recently met with ...

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The British Government have said a multinational peacekeeping mission along the Ukrainian-Russian border could be part of any ...