Pearse Doherty

Demand to exceed supply in the medium term with economic data indicating a more positive general outlook than had been anticipated last year

VAT reduction on gas and electricity bills was part of Government’s €1.2bn cost of living package

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Pearse Doherty to ask Revenue Commissioners to clarify whether share awards comply with bonus restrictions

Vote could be awkward for Government TDs such as Neasa Hourigan and Patrick Costello who have been critical of decision

Dublin Region Homeless Executive, which runs family evening placement, said it has not run out of emergency accommodation

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty said Dublin family were told there was no place for them

Majority State-owned bank says it pursues a ‘robust’ policy to recover loans from borrowers

Emails confirm Sipo is examining complaints about party’s accounts and spending declarations

Weeks after it took high moral ground with Paschal Donohoe, SF’s organisations North and South are implicated over spending declarations that don’t add up

Sinn Féin brought forward a motion calling for a spring bonus for those reliant on social welfare payments

Government to bring forward ‘revised package’ of support in coming weeks

It has signalled moves to avoid a ‘cliff edge’ at end of February when energy supports are due to lapse

Micheál Martin says Government has to make decisions that are not always ‘palatable’ given current spending needs

Analysis: Party admits it must make several changes to spending declarations

Some 100,000 mortgages were sold to funds and many now carry rates as high as 7%

Michael Stone’s statement on Tuesday morning took the heat out of the election expenses controversy

Analysis: A line of attack from the Opposition has been the value that has been ascribed by Donohoe to the postering services provided by Stone and by Designer Group

Minister told TDs he attended ‘series of meetings’ with Arup and British government appointed rail expert to discuss project that could bring trains back to Letterkenny

Fianna Fáil and Green Party leaders stop short of saying they are confident Minister has nothing more to disclose

Minister for Public Expenditure accused of ‘concocting a story that does not stack up’ by SF’s Pearse Doherty

Tánaiste rules out any short-term move to reintroduce mortgage interest relief for homeowners

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty calls on banks to absorb latest ECB interest rate hikes

Sinn Féin describes action as ‘tone deaf’

Tánaiste says work under way to see if possible to ‘mitigate or defer’ hike due on January 1st

Analysis: Friendly relations seemed to be the order of the day at the party’s ardfheis on Saturday

Sinn Fein says banks should absorb expected 0.75 per cent hike from ECB today

Relaxation of borrowing rules may lead to increased house prices, mortgage body says

Sinn Féin says 346,000 customers on these electricity meters have no protection from being cut off

Party wants to cap electricity prices at 2021 levels until next February

Budget an opportunity to deal with high costs in childcare, healthcare, public transport and rents, says Varadkar

Pearse Doherty has accused the Coalition of missing the crisis that households are currently experiencing

Reversal of plan follows ‘customer and public unease’ and political criticism

Latest scheme for developers ‘straight out of Fianna Fáil playbook, right back to the times of the Galway tent’

Leo and Micheál were on a mission to butter up the billionaires in Davos

Unfair pay ‘led to a chronic retention and recruitment crisis’ in profession – Doherty

Bank has informed Sinn Féin finance spokesman of additional cases discovered

‘People are feeling the pinch and it’s more than a pinch, a lot of people are struggling,’ Leo Varadkar says

Tánaiste says 10,000 new social homes will be added to housing stock this year

Green Party leader says legal structures show there will not be religious interference