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.

Robert Watt set to be paid €280,000 a year to lead Dublin city regeneration body

Former Department of Health head expected to be approved by Cabinet on Tuesday

Robert Watt expected to be named head of new Dublin city centre regeneration authority

Former top civil servant’s €297,000 Department of Health salary was subject of controversy after initial appointment

Dublin apartment builds up 13% but 40,000 units granted planning not ‘activated’, data shows

‘This uplift signals that permissions granted in recent years are increasingly moving into the build phase,’ Government says

Penalties of more than €17m imposed on bus, rail, Luas operators for missing targets

Department of Transport tells Dáil committee passenger numbers are continuing to surge and punctuality is improving

Samantha Barry profile: The Cork woman who went from RTÉ to highest level of US publishing

Cork native is stepping down as editor of Glamour, as publishing giant Condé Nast announces shift in business strategy

Gas company seeks to cut off supply to school that owes thousands in arrears, PAC hears

Some principals and teachers going to work two hours early to ‘mop out schools when it rains’

Peak student numbers in schools reached last year, Dáil committee to hear

Department of Education to say its capital funding is on ‘a more steady and sustainable footing’

More than 1,300 who left direct provision in last two years sought emergency accommodation

Report indicated figures did not include households that presented to services due to a grant of family reunification

Report on claims about improper use of public money at State-funded body sent to gardaí

Department says investigation commissioned by Skillnet Ireland experienced significant constraints due to persistent lack of co-operation

Trump turns on Meloni, says he is ‘shocked’ by Italian leader

UN secretary general António Guterres has said 'there is no military solution' to the crisis in the Middle East

Teachers to demand future pay rises match inflation

ASTI defers proposal to seek 6 per cent rise until after forthcoming public service talks

Science teachers offered old telephone box to store chemicals, equipment and students’ work

Teachers express concern they do not have adequate training, resources or facilities for laboratory-based research

Teachers must receive substantial pay rise, ‘no ifs or buts’, says ASTI

General secretary of second-level teachers’ union says Government has not moved on from mindset of austerity

Department of Education faces €500m deficit amid funding row

Minister for Public Expenditure drawing up proposals for levy on other departments to address underfunding

‘Living pay cheque to pay cheque’: Teachers feel pinch of cost-of-living crisis

Recent pay rises leave teachers feeling they amounted to ‘half or less than half’ rate of inflation’

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