Fine Gael

Minister for Finance says FF and Greens keen to lower personal tax burden after Taoiseach backs call by FG TDs

Putting more money in voters’ pockets is one of the reasons for Fine Gael being in government, Taoiseach tells The Irish Times

If Fine Gael sees the need to define itself politically by means of a public row over budget priorities, it may be a sign of more Coalition tensions ahead

Senior Fianna Fáil ministers are diplomatic but the party’s backbenchers are openly angry and detect Varadkar’s hand in the populist policy gambit

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

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

Cork East deputy becomes fifth senior Fine Gael TD to announce departure in recent months

Exact amount has not been decided but there will ‘certainly’ be a rise, Leo Varadkar tells Dáil

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

Recent protests in Co Clare show that small-town Ireland is about more than just farmers

Pressure is coming on the Government to start spending the projected €65 billion budget surplus

FG leader says it is party’s ambition to seek fourth term in Government

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

Covid lockdowns made many TDs reassess their life priorities and were, for the first time in their children’s lives, not away from home continuously

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

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

First milk prices fell across a range of retailers, then butter. But consumers are waiting for something more meaningful

EPP, of which Fine Gael is a member, opposes policies put forward by Ursula von der Leyen

Taoiseach’s remarks about 2014 water charges protest ‘scandalous’, says People Before Profit TD

Varadkar says State has ‘chronic problem of ED overcrowding’ but there were ‘many very good things about service too’

Creed tells FG organisation in Cork North West that he will not stand in the next general election

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

Former key allies of Taoiseach known to feel undervalued and overlooked

Many independents unlikely to give up control over their own vote

Carlow/Kilkenny TD suffered a serious heart attack three years ago

Ms McDonald told the Dáil that Mr Varadkar appeared to ‘fail to grasp what’s actually happening out there in the real world’

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

US president Joe Biden’s visit to Ireland comes at a time when bilateral relations ‘never better’, says Varadkar

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

Varadkar’s changes to committee chairperson posts mean extra payment on top of salary of more than €105,000

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