Martin Wall

Martin Wall

Public Policy Correspondent

Martin Wall is Public Policy Correspondent of The Irish Times. He is the former Washington Correspondent and Industry Correspondent and has written and broadcast extensively on industrial relations, particularly public-service reform. He has also extensively covered developments in the health service over the past 25 years.

More than 150 child asylum claims were ruled ineligible, Tusla figures reveal

A total of 86 people in 2025 and 67 in 2024 were referred back to the Department of Justice International Protection Office

Ireland to deepen partnerships with UK and France under new maritime security plan

Minister for Defence Helen McEntee expected to unveil new plan on Wednesday

Imminent Naval Service renewal agenda to shape direction

Role evolving quickly while Coalition seeks to resolve recruitment and retention crisis

DAA paid €53,000 towards legal fees for three WRC cases brought by staff

Airport operator agreed to cover or contribute to lawyers’ bills as part of settlement agreements

No Government department or agency has agreed to run public alert system for floods

New warning system expected next year, but no agreement on responsibility

Trump orders new global tariff, amid fears Ireland’s pharma sector could be in firing line

Any pivot in the US president’s tariff focus could have serious implications for Ireland

Unsigned allegations about fisheries agency referred to gardaí by TDs

Letter purported to be written by someone close to the board of troubled State agency

Cost of providing accommodation to people fleeing Ukraine war reduces by more than half

Public Accounts Committee to hear funding of over €600m allocated in 2026 compared with about €1.4bn in 2024

Ireland should avail of EU loans for defence if scheme reopens, says Harris

State not ‘immune from the big threats’, says Tánaiste

24% rise in Dublin housing units built or under construction

Planning approval in place across four local authority areas for more than 80,000 residential units

Harris sketches out incentivised savings scheme to help ‘middle classes’

No special savings incentive account, but Minister for Finance says the middle class should make money

Additional payments of €60m deemed due to Bam as part of children’s hospital project

Further €145m in dispute and subject to appeals in High Court, Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears

Flood defence funding may have to be cut to pay for children’s science centre, OPW warns

Building for national facility, which could cost up to €70m, must be provided by end of 2029 under arbitrator’s finding

Group behind planned children’s science centre says it would raise €25m for fit-out

Report last year suggested it could cost €70m to develop the long-planned facility beside Dublin’s National Concert Hall

Search for new Department of Health chief begins as Robert Watt’s term set to expire

Successor will earn lower salary than higher rate granted to Covid-era appointment

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