During the election campaign, Fianna Fáil leader — and now Taoiseach — Micheál Martin told The Echo he was committed to removing the means test.

Former Integration minister Roderic O'Gorman has criticised the Government over what he feels is an attempt to "minimise" the migration problem.

The Greentown Programme is far from an environmental initiative

Drew Harris says he wants to maximise the numbers.

The document was published on Wednesday as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael held their parliamentary party meetings.

Michael Lowry has maintained that there was no wrongdoing in the awarding of the phone licence which was the subject of a Tribunal.

The Kerry TD is set to be a junior minister in the Government, with the Programme for Government agreed between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and a number of Independent TDs.

The programme for government should include switching off "toxic recommender systems on social media", according to a group that works to counter hate and disinformation

Ministers signed off on the delayed blueprint when they met at Stormont Castle on Thursday morning.

Leo Varadkar said it was “definitely a real concern” but that it was not causing investment to go down.

THE government approved proposals by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath TD, that his department undertakes a review of Ethics legislation.