May 17th, 2012
Thank you very much Helena for that very warm welcome. As Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, I appreciate the opportunity to address your Annual Conference. As you progress through…
May 11th, 2012
I am very pleased to have the opportunity to address you this morning at your Annual Conference. The twin themes of the conference – “change and growth” – seem to me to be especially relevant at this…
May 2nd, 2012
I welcome the opportunity to present the 2012 Estimates for my Department’s Group of Votes. If I may, I will begin by making some general comments in relation to the major developments in my…
April 25th, 2012
The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Phil Hogan T.D, today (Tuesday 24th April 2012) announced that the Government had cleared for publication proposed legislation…
April 20th, 2012
I am told that I am the first Minister for some time to be invited to address the Conference and so I am honoured to be here. I hope my remarks this morning will help to inform your deliberations over the…
April 18th, 2012
I would like to thank the Chair and Members of the Committee for providing me with this opportunity to present the Government’s proposals in relation to “Whistleblower Protection Legislation”…
April 5th, 2012
Mr. Richard Bruton, T.D., Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation today published a Blueprint document which sets out in detail the proposed shape of the new workplace relations structures that…
March 29th, 2012
The public sector in Ireland has a proud record of service to the Irish state and to the Irish people. Out of the violence, destruction and chaos of the War of Independence and the Civil War a viable state…
March 28th, 2012
It is very difficult to find words which would adequately condemn the type of behaviour outlined in this report, and previous ones, from the Planning Tribunal. It is a sorry tale of greed and betrayal, evasion…
March 28th, 2012
A Cheann Comhairle.I had the honour of being elected to this House in 1987. Throughout my whole time here the spectre of corruption has hung over political life. While endemic to the system it has not…
May 16th, 2012
May 16th, 2012
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