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

New plans for a dedicated Oireachtas committee on cyber security. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news Opposition TDs want Government to ensure ...

At least eight TDs have employed family members as their assistants in roles funded by the taxpayer. TDs are given an ...

More: Stormont restoration - Rate the minister Seanad Éireann, or the Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas (parliament) in Ireland. Ireland, like countries such as the UK and the USA ...

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

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

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The veteran Sinn Fein politician is leaving his job as Stormont economy minister to take on a new role in the upper chamber of the Irish parliament.

While the Seanad is the upper house of the Oireachtas, most laws are proposed and passed in the Dáil. As with other bicameral parliamentary systems, the upper house acts alongside the lower house ...