Sinn Féin to chair Oireachtas justice and defence committees
Government parties take lead positions on housing and infrastructure panels
Trump blinks, but what does it mean?
On the home front, draft laws on short term lettings stalled as they were due to go to Cabinet on Tuesday
Temple Street: Taoiseach says removal of CHI board ‘would not help’
Labour Party calls for resignation of entire board of Children’s Health Ireland
Planned ban on Airbnb-type lettings in rural communities prompts concern
Tourism sector critical to jobs and economic growth in many rural regions, department notes
Temple Street report provides major challenge for new Minister for Health
Elsewhere, Simon Harris is in DC to meet the man who has dubbed Ireland his 'favourite tax scam'
Oireachtas committees due to be operational in a month
New term also indicates a special committee to be convened on artificial intelligence
Plan for reforms of Airbnb-type lettings dropped from Cabinet agenda
It is understood disagreement arose between Department of Housing and Department of Enterprise
Plans to increase paid sick leave for workers to be stalled under Cabinet proposal
Retail, accommodation and food services sectors would be more affected should the statutory sick leave entitlement increase from five days to seven
Trump tariffs mean volatility and threat of further escalation are the new normal
The Government knows it is in the teeth, already, of the first big thing that will define its term
Planning permissions for Airbnb-type lettings may be curtailed in some areas
Ministers to brief Cabinet on plans to progress legislation governing sector
Businesses unlikely to receive Covid-style support schemes to counter Trump tariffs
Planning under way for Tánaiste Simon Harris to travel to Washington to meet US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
Nama chief is Government’s preferred option for ‘housing tsar’
New role will head up the Strategic Housing Activation Office, which is being established in the Department of the Taoiseach in the coming weeks
Workers face reduced hours from this weekend at firms impacted by US tariffs, Ibec claims
It’s understood that planning is underway for Tánaiste and Minister for Trade Simon Harris to travel to Washington to meet US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik
Trump tariffs: Taoiseach urges caution amid signs of EU division
Government has been privately urging the bloc not to escalate the brewing trade war
Verona Murphy: Motion of confidence in Ceann Comhairle passed in Dáil
Wexford TD says she bears no ill will to those who brought motion and ‘her door is always open’