In 2017, following an OECD review of budget oversight by the Oireachtas and on the recommendation of the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) was established. It...
Minister for Health Simon Harris TD speaks to eolas regarding health expenditure, Sláintecare priorities and abortion legislation, as well the challenges of anticipated winter pressures and Brexit. The Taoiseach has...
In recent years, the cycle of controversy which has dogged An Garda Síochána, combined with the ‘dysfunctionality’ of the Department of Justice and Equality, has claimed the scalps of two...
Innovation is a cornerstone of Ireland’s overall economic development policy. Minister of State at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Education and Skills, John Halligan...
We are at a turning point in dealing with climate change in Ireland. Deputy for Dublin Bay South and leader of the Green Party, Eamon Ryan, writes. By the end of 2018,...
Mícheál Ó Leidhin is a political correspondent with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. A native of south Kerry, he is a graduate of NUI Galway and previously worked as a reporter for TG4....
January 2019 marks the centenary of the first public sitting of Dáil Éireann. Ciarán Galway speaks with Houses of the Oireachtas Head of Communications Derek Dignam about the planned programme of commemorative...
November 1918 may have marked the end of ‘the war’, however, it was not the end of ‘war’ in Ireland. Queen’s University Belfast’s Marie Coleman writes. At 0600 on 11 November 1918,...
At its 79th Ard Fheis, Fine Gael launched the second iteration of its “rolling political programme”, this time titled ‘Taking Ireland Forward Together’. Ciarán Galway attends and gauges the mood of a...
A just transition to a low carbon economy is the only sustainable response to the threat posed to communities and workers by climate change. ICTU’s Macdara Doyle writes. In July 2012, several...
In 2017, following an OECD review of budget oversight by the Oireachtas and on the recommendation of the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) was established. It is intended...
The ability to pass a confidence motion or a supply (budget) bill is the minimum support required for a government to survive and indicates whether it retains the support of a majority...
Single use plastic products are symptomatic of a wider economic model based upon consumer-fuelled resource exploitation. The Single Use Plastics Directive is one component in the battle to stymie rampant consumerism and...
In spite of a banning order, the first civil rights march in Derry took place on 5 October 1968, resulting in marchers being beaten off the streets by the RUC. Reflecting on...
