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Labour TD Eoghan Kenny hits out at rushed changes while Helen McEntee says ‘huge amount’ of consultation work done

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council calls for enough construction workers to deliver projects

Minister of State John Cummins says proposal would allow more people to live independently

Extensions up to 40m2 to a home can be built without planning permission whereas habitable structures of this size must have approval if not attached to the home itself

To shut door on data centres would send signal Ireland does not want to be part of ‘most profound economic revolution’, Micheál Martin says

Government preparing to agree additional €450 million in capital funding for housing sector

Mood ahead of first Cabinet housing subcommittee more taut than might have been expected, following interventions by Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Simon Harris to brief ministers on plan and seek approval for Ireland’s participation in G20 forum, while Peter Burke is to set out IDA Ireland’s new five-year strategy

Cutting Ukrainian hosting payment will ‘push people into homelessness’, say advocacy groups

Six-year delay in publishing strategy criticised ‘at a time of heightened global instability and risk’

Call for elite squad of Ministers to be taught to watch their tongues before targetting Donald Trump in Operation Blarney

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Furious scenes in the Dáil after Taoiseach’s unparliamentary language as Gaeilge

‘Government must not lock Ireland into long-term gas addiction in short-term effort to distract US president’

Ministers criticised handling of project by Arts Council and Department of Arts

Emphasis on building trade links to Republican-leaning ‘red states'

A big player in pharma/healthcare, biotech or the tech world would be good fit in replacing BT

At least 50 employees of Government departments and their agencies on career break for five years or more

Ireland-England game brought the great and good to the Aviva, including a former British PM

Local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) are ‘approaching capacity’ under existing resourcing

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: End of Dáil fireworks brings spending and housing to the fore

John McGuinness expected to be elected, but secret ballot injects uncertainty

Controversy comes as figures show the number of Palestinians seeking asylum in Ireland has increased more than eightfold

Taoiseach briefs Cabinet on plans to restore 11 proposed laws to Dáil order paper

Housing targets and ministerial appointments among other topics addressed as TDs reconvene

Dáil is expected to hear statements on the State’s response to the storm this week if a row over speaking time can be resolved

Mexico agrees to send 10,000 members of its national guard ‘to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, in particular of fentanyl’, says Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum

Ruling appears to present a path to resolving the conflict about speaking time and allowing the Dáil to proceed this week

Taoiseach Micheál Martin points to precedent and possible future cases in call for compromise

It might be argued that some smaller parties were outmanoeuvred in negotiations to form this Government, while others chose to make demands they knew would be refused

No one can figure out why Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are going out on a limb despite his controversial past and divisive Dáil presence

From Seanad election latest to the neverending Dáil speaking rights row, it's your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

Government plan is ‘total arrogance’ on the back of a ‘grubby deal’, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says

Ireland’s new Junior Ministers

The Government’s claim the increase to 23 juniors is necessary defies credulity

It is the less predictable events that will present the biggest problems for the Coalition

Committee to consider wording of a new amendment to Dáil rules to break gridlock over ongoing row around Regional Independent Group

Mary Hanafin hoping ‘at least two’ women TDs from party are appointed as ministers of State on Wednesday

Dr Muiris Houston: Implementing a labelling regime could help make people aware of the potential cancer risks of alcohol consumption

There are disputed accounts also as to whether Independent TD Michael Lowry and Sinn Féin’s Pádraig Mac Lochlainn shook hands over a claimed ‘deal’

We need to execute on policies that enhance our competitiveness, trust in the resilience of our relationship with the US and maintain a consistent message that Ireland is open for business