Fianna Fáil

FF leader says Coalition parties have made it ‘very clear’ that they favour reducing tax burden on workers

Fianna Fáil sources sceptical of claims over how many people would benefit from the plan

Immediate priority must be to expand availability of termination in hospitals and tackling ‘uneven geographic spread’ of GPs providing services, Tánaiste says

Budget negotiations are best done behind closed doors and by not promising everybody everything, says Green Party leader

As McGrath considers how to spend surpluses, time pressure mounts on politicians to have their voices heard

Party meeting sees Fine Gael members turn on Fianna Fáil partners who ‘crashed the economy’

A pleasingly vicious start to Dáil Éireann’s ancient political pursuit of budget balloon trials

Senior Fianna Fáil Minister Darragh O’Brien said his party wants to make sure ‘that those that need most, get most’

MEP Billy Kelleher claims proposed law would have a devastating impact

Former Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed from Cork says political debate became more aggressive over his 30 years in Dáil Éireann

Sinn Féin is conducting the difficult balancing act of promising change while reassuring voters the things they like will stay the same

Former Fine Gael TD lived by the mantra that all politics were local

Submissions by political parties to Electoral Commission show marked differences over how many seats Dáil should have

Parliamentary party members back Senator’s call to reverse reductions

Presumption of innocence applies to complaints made to gardaí, says Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin

Sunday Independent survey shows Fianna Fáil up three points to 19% while Sinn Féin remains at 31%, but support for smaller parties seems to be waning

Other teenagers hung posters of Bowie and the Stones on their bedroom walls. She stuck up photos of politicians and went on to become the first female press director for Fianna Fáil

Minister of State says that in hindsight it would have been better if he had not participated in a local area committee meeting

Advocates say surrogates should be able to get money for maternity clothes, medication, dietary expenses and loss of earnings during pregnancy

Opposition TDs have been calling for statement to include a questions and answers session

John Hussey (57) named after victim waived right to anonymity over ‘appalling breach of trust’ in 2003

Dr Byrne was a TD for Dublin North-West from 1969 to 1982

Department of Health official Robert Watt defended botched plan to appoint Tony Holohan to academic role

Many independents unlikely to give up control over their own vote

Green Party has said it has concerns about the plan being pursued by Minister for Justice Simon Harris

After 37 years at PwC Ireland, Feargal O’Rourke is bowing out with a mixture of satisfaction and relief – and no qualms about not following his mother Mary into public life

Failure to agree new HSE tender before old one expires would put services in ‘legal limbo’, says representative group

European parliament’s constitutional committee has provisionally recommended extra seat

Former taoiseach says lawyers advised him challenge would have halted inquiry into personal finances but he wanted to defend himself ‘politically rather than legally’

Former taoiseach and leader of the Fianna Fáil party talks about his parents, the Belfast Agreement, the planning tribunal and his plans for the future

Irish history provides a guide to how painfully slow major political change can be following a period of violence; this process has barely begun

Government is in tune with voters on most issues with one big exception: housing is regarded by 52% of voters as the key concern in Ireland

Fine Gael opposes triple lock, which requires approval for any deployment of Irish troops from Government, Dáil and UN

The Dáil includes TDs who are landlords but TDs on both sides of the House have experienced eviction

Women of Honour criminal complaints to be investigated by Garda Síochána

Even though final result was never in doubt, debate was fraught and shouty with both sides slugging it out over 2½ rancorous hours

Councillors vote by 37 to 8 in support of Sinn Féin motion, with several councillors from Government parties voting to extend the ban

Rebel Green Neasa Hourigan voted with the Government, as did a number of Independent TDs

A number of Independents yet to decide how to vote in Labour Party’s motion in wake of eviction ban’s end

Inside Politics: Dáíl debate and vote of confidence in Government takes place this morning