# government - Thursday 16 May, 2013
A survey for Standard Life found that the average adult has a pension of about €4,000 per annum to live on.
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# government - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
The IMF said the money is intended to stabilise the country’s ravage financial system.
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Michael D Higgins won the Irish presidential elections based on his vision of a ‘radically inclusive Republic’. So how could anyone be surprised about him elaborating on that vision, asks Maura Adshead.
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# government - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
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# government - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Austerity has not worked in Ireland or across the eurozone, writes Joan Collins, who points out that even the architects of our bailout admit it was the wrong path.
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# government - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
The scheme, which would have applied to people with long-term illness, was an election commitment from the government.
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The Convention on the Constitution submitted its recommendation to the Oireachtas today.
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# government - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
The government has approved the appointment of two extra judges to the Supreme Court to deal with the current backlogs, some as long as four years.
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# government - Monday 6 May, 2013
Smoky coal is already banned in 27 towns and cities around the country, but now the Minister for the Environment says he wants to see it nationwide.
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# government - Sunday 5 May, 2013
A former IMF head of the mission for Ireland has said an entire reliance on austerity was not the right move – yet we’re still following that road. David Cronin asks why.
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# government - Friday 3 May, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# government - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
The Irish government has reversed a decision to refuse three-year-old Jiayi a visa.
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The Minister also intervened with the banks and requested they provide more credit to farmers in need.
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The Government is extending the carbon tax to solid fuels from today.
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# government - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
The 8th amendment, which protects the right to life of the unborn, is loved and hated in equal measure by both pro-life and pro-choice campaigners, writes Jane Horgan-Jones. It’s time to have a referendum on it.
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The Chamber of Deputies has passed a motion of confidence in the broad coalition led by new premier Enrico Letta.
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“Despite the fact that RTE is a minority player in terms of audience they hold a virtual stranglehold on public funding from the licence fee”.
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# government - Monday 29 April, 2013
The former publican and auctioneer from Fermoy, Co Cork was first elected to the Dáil in 1953.
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# government - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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These things take time.
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“Gardaí put their lives on the line to protect our communities and deserve more”.
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# government - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
The charge can still be paid up until 30 June 2013.
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# government - Saturday 20 April, 2013
We have been treating nurses and gardai as equal in importance to receptionists and quango directors, they are not equal in importance, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# government - Friday 19 April, 2013
Tensions are high this week between the judicial and executive branches of government, writes Roderic O’Gorman, who says if we want a truly independent judiciary, we must be prepared to undertake radical reform.
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# government - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The Dáil has passed leglisation to allow for the National Lottery licence to be sold.
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# government - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
For Ireland to continue to compete successfully, demand has to be stimulated, internet usage has to be promoted and digital literacy has to be accelerated, says Philip Flynn, who has worked in the ICT sector since its infancy.
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# government - Sunday 14 April, 2013
A former homeless addict explains how his experience with the charity Stepping Stone worked for him.
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# government - Thursday 11 April, 2013
The four giant Japanese carmakers cited the same malfunction in the passenger-side airbags, leading to the massive recall.
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# government - Monday 8 April, 2013
Opinion polls come and go, but the public are missing the real achievements of the Labour party in government, writes Rory Geraghty.
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# government - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kim Jong-Un clings on to his place in the Dáil Technical Group, pointing Phil Hogan at North Korea and Ireland nominated by troika for fantasy government awards.
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# government - Friday 5 April, 2013
The Government has no democratic mandate from the electorate for a property tax. In fact, they were elected on the very opposite of commitments, writes Kieran Allen.
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# government - Thursday 4 April, 2013
The Department of Communications has said that existing services and systems will not be impacted by the exercise.
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# government - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The petition was set up to challenge Iain Duncan Smith to prove that he would be able to survive on benefits.
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# government - Saturday 30 March, 2013
Debates, meetings, touching base with constituents, heading up to Meath East by-election, organising sand bags, reading the newspapers and having words with his colleagues – Kevin Humphreys recounts his busy schedule this week.
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Breaking via TheMire wire: Government concern over threesomes, Gardaí to be microchipped – and how Uzis could have prevented the bailout…
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# government - Friday 29 March, 2013
The Tánaiste and Labour leader says his party will “have to do some reflection” on its dramatic slump in the by-election.
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The junior partner in government saw its vote collapse in Meath East. How do you feel about how it’s performing in power?
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# government - Thursday 28 March, 2013
The ex-Communist had been given a mandate last week by Italy’s president to try and muster enough support to govern.
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