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Last week
7th April 2024 - 13th April 2024
Simon Harris expected to press pause on expanding sick leave as part of business support plan
Opposition remain unconvinced after Harris defends optimistic housing goals
This year
2024
Sinn Féin demands operator of 999 call centres enter talks with staff to avert strike action
Last year
2023
Sinn Féin TD criticised for waving photo of 'vulnerable' man in Dáil chamber
Iceland staff complain of erratic, 'hit-and-miss' wage payments under new owners
Sinn Féin TD says rent 'emergency isn't over' as eviction ban set to expire this month
‘Sleeping at the wheel’: Minister Ryan comes under renewed criticism for drone disruptions
All time
Tánaiste rejects Ibec suggestion that 'proof' would be required for domestic abuse paid leave
New public holiday could cost Exchequer between €220m and €300m, says Varadkar
High-earning public servants to have pay restored, as Varadkar admits timing 'isn't the best'
'Shocking' testimony on violence against women by female TDs shows all parties united on issue
Road safety fears raised over relaxation of lorry driver resting time rules
‘Stay away from blame’: Health officials say no single reason for nursing home outbreaks
Emergency Covid-19 legislation passed by reduced number of TDs in Dáil
Fine Gael promises to cap hospital parking at €10 per day, SF says fees should be scrapped altogether
'A hidden problem': Up to half of food provided to patients in Irish hospitals is not eaten
Almost 1,000 people added to the waiting list for home help hours since March
Home help care supports: How many people are waiting in your county?
So far this year, 32 children have had to stay in adult mental health units and it's going to continue to happen
Calls for children's urgent care centre at Connolly hospital to open until midnight
Psychiatric nurses begin overtime ban as Dáil hears they've been propping up services by working extra hours
Nearly 300 health workers have been assaulted in Irish hospitals so far this year
'Wholly unsatisfactory': Harris pressed in Dáil over recruitment freeze in the HSE
HSE apologises to women callers to Joe Duffy's Liveline who shared their traumatic childbirth experiences
HSE's €318 million spend on agency staff in 2018 described as 'sickening waste of money'
New children's hospital memos show costs were on the up from summer 2017
Almost 15,000 elderly people were forced to wait over 24 hours in emergency departments last year
Counsellor registration board to be announced, bringing 'rogue' unplanned pregnancy agency regulations one step closer
'Not good enough': Tánaiste apologises to women for 18-week delay for their smear test results
'It seared the soul of our country': Emotional scenes as Emma Mhic Mhathúna's interview raised in the Dáil
Dáil descends into row over Citizens' Assembly recruitment criticism
'We have further to go': Why three Sinn Féin politicians abstained in an Eighth Committee vote
'We shouldn't have to beg': Irish mothers' fight to be heard on drug linked to birth defects
Minister orders report into vaginal mesh devices after Irish women experience 'constant pain'
Minister Zappone to raise Irish women's vaginal mesh complications with Simon Harris
'The Dáil is no Westminster - but it certainly is a boys' club'
92 on-duty ambulances involved in road 'incidents' so far this year
Harris 'sickened' at the 'misleading nonsense' spread by rogue crisis pregnancy agencies
'Risk to the public': 128 doctors working as consultants not on the required specialist register
'I don't think he is immortal': Gerry's leadership remains unfazed after recent scandals