I raised the issue of the Aer Lingus announcement to permanently close its cabin crew base at Shannon airport directly with An Taoiseach, Micheal Martin during Leaders Questions in Dáil Éireann.  The video of Dáil proceedings can be viewed at the following link:  https://www.facebook.com/100000702333773/videos/4210621458971224/ Text

I welcome the Bill. As a member of the Government that introduced the home care system initially, I recognise that we obviously did not get it completely right. It is very hard to get it exactly right the first time around. Several deficiencies emerged which

One of the less noticeable consequences of Covid has been to obscure a number of developments and decisions which have the capacity to be extremely damaging and possibly have fatal consequences for Fianna Fail. There are a number of those, but today I will just

In the ridiculously short time available to me I am not able to discuss Bank of Ireland but suffice it to say I agree with the remarks by Members on all sides of the House. I will confine myself, in the few minutes I have,

I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this very important topic. This State has expended enormous amounts of money as aids to businesses affected by the pandemic, and rightly so. The purpose of this has been to preserve businesses and jobs affected

My article in the SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: Moyross plan and other broken promises cost us in loss of trust The Green Party leader has forgotten that in a coalition, no one element gets all that it wants, writes Willie O’Dea The late Albert Reynolds once said