Wicklow constituency profile: One of the bear pits of Election 2024 after loss of territory to neighbouring area
Election 2024: Taoiseach Simon Harris will be safe but bringing home a running mate is not assured
Steven Matthews
Efforts to defuse Coalition row over planned deferral of residential zoned land tax
Tax was due to kick in next year, with landowners facing an annual 3 per cent payment on the value of land earmarked for housing
Green Party leadership race: Candidates set to declare interest
Potential candidates likely to include Roderic O’Gorman, Pippa Hackett, Ossian Smith and Steven Matthews
How do you solve a problem like Ireland’s housing crisis?
Housing plan after plan has failed over the past decade, and with the number of homeless now at an all-time high of 11,500, the stakes are getting ever higher
State should take equity stake in houses built by housing bodies, committee told
Housing body executive says mixed schemes are rejected because of view that ‘private developers are bad people’
Water quality in majority of Irish rivers and lakes is unacceptably poor, committee hears
Water quality crisis is leading to loss of nature and contamination, An Taisce says
Bill to reduce derelict buildings could deliver 11,000 homes a year, architect says
Proposed legislation would transfer task of collecting 7% levy to Revenue
Minister wants criminal offence for landlords offering free rent in exchange for sex
Government receiving advice from Attorney General on how to deal with legislation
Varadkar tells his party that planning reforms will go ahead
Comments come after Green Party TD and others criticised plans for overhaul of system
Politicians raise concerns that LDA plans will not deliver affordable rents
Government TDs defend cost-rental proposals, saying they could be ‘game-changing’
Use of fireworks close to children’s hospital criticised by TD
Burning on rubbish and danger of bonfires also highlighted in run up to Hallowe’en
Housing strategy a plan for ‘squeezed middle’, says Minister
Ó Broin claims Government’s proposals not ambitious, honest, or committed to delivery
Warning issued over risk of swan deaths at new Bray bridge
BirdWatch Ireland cites reported cases of bird deaths at Samuel Beckett Bridge
Public consultation under way on proposed overhaul of Co Wicklow’s N11
Multimillion euro project is not about putting more cars on the road, say officials
‘People need solutions now, not in 10 years’: TDs respond to housing plan
Government TDs hope improvements in housing will aid election next campaign
Taoiseach says An Taisce should not appeal court decision on cheese factory
Green Party MEP expresses concern over calls saying undue pressure is inappropriate
Covid-19 eviction ban Bill to go to Dáil next week
Oireachtas housing committee narrowly votes not to debate legislation
Minister denies suggestion he tried to avoid scrutiny of housing Bill
Darragh O’Brien apologises for ‘confusion’ but denies trying to circumvent consultation
Eighteen TDs nominated to chair Oireachtas committees
James Lawless, Fergus O’Dowd, Kathleen Funchion and Neasa Hourigan among appointees
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