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

Minister of State for Local Government and Planning John Cummins has said that he does not view proposals to relax planning rules on cabins and modular homes in back gardens as a solution to the ...

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 ...

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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Over the years successive housing ministers have thrown various measures out there, but barely left enough time to allow the ...

An Irish senator’s 2022 comments calling for national celebration for women who wear hijabs has been misrepresented online as ...