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Saturday 19 September 2020
A number of concerns about how welfare payments were cut if citizens travelled abroad have been raised.
“There’s a big difference between Portmagee and Dame Lane,” said TD Michael Healy Rae.
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty raised the issue of the banks charging interest on mortgages that have availed of pandemic payment breaks.
Some 1,500 Debenhams workers in Ireland have lost their jobs.
Micheál Martin says Hiqa should compile a report on what happened.
Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin hit out against the Taoiseach today stating that waiting lists for children are “quite shocking”.
Fianna Fáil deputy leader Dara Calleary told the Tánaiste that “Good media is dying on the vine while you whistle by the graveyard”.
Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl addressed the Dáil on the matter before Leaders’ Questions today.
The Taoiseach’s comments come after reports that the UK’s proposal to replace the backstop is a series of customs posts.
The Taoiseach says the Data Commissioner has declined to meet with Minister Doherty.
The Green Party leader spoke to TheJournal.ie while on a clean up in Donnybrook.
Calls for an online safety Oireachtas committee were heard in the Dáil today.
Noonan was minister for justice during the period Majella Moynihan faced censure.
The Taoiseach said he will make a decision on the final bidder before Easter.
There were also calls for the HSE and Tusla to be included in the new garda review of murders in the home.
Ruth Coppinger TD told the Dáil she had been contacted by a woman who shared her story.
Work is underway to ensure the public procurement process is more robust, particularly for large-scale projects.
Simon Harris had been warned on numerous occasions that his announcement of free repeat smear tests was “dangerous” .
Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty said the staff of Irish hospitals have acted with responsibility and in a mature manner and stated that the government has decided to “disengage”.
Leo Varadkar claimed that “when it comes to law and order” and the Sinn Féin party, “It doesn’t take very long for your balaclava to slip.”
The changes will kick in in January 2020.
TD Ruth Coppinger said it was time for ‘rape myths’ to be dispelled with in court cases,
The Taoiseach says hospitals effectively close down over the Christmas period and that needs to end.
Howlin said calls to the Social Protection helpline have been going unanswered.
Due to the upsurge in the number of women presenting for their smear test, there is now a backlog of 60,000.
Naughten has been under pressure after it emerged he attended a dinner with David McCourt in July.
Coveney was standing in for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who is in Brussels to meet the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
She also said that fears about how Brexit will affect Ireland was turning people off the idea.
Leo Varadkar said he wanted to give assurances today that such a measure is not being considered by government.
The hiring of private investigators by government departments was reported upon in last weekend’s Sunday Business Post.
The first Dáil sitting since the country voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment takes place this afternoon.
“It is a stain on all our doors, it is a stain on all of us,” Labour’s Alan Kelly told his Dáil colleagues today.
The issue dominated large chunks of Leaders’ Questions today.
The Taoiseach said the government still do not know all the facts surrounding the CervicalCheck scandal.
The case of Vicky Phelan, a terminally ill woman who yesterday came to a €2.5 million settlement with the HSE, has caused significant concern.
Varadkar came under fire during Leaders’ Questions when opposition parties called for the unit to be disbanded.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says it’s now up the UK to come back to them.
A deal was done yesterday, until it wasn’t.
A new Tánaiste, Business and Culture minister have been announced in the Dáil.
Ireland was pulled back from the brink of an election yesterday but it was business as usual in the Dáil today.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Breezy this morning; otherwise, clearing
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Some sun; fog early in the day
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