Jack Horgan Jones
Irish Times
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Martin says State has ‘turned a corner’ on activity in housing sector
Little sign of backbench revolt on Sinn Féin motion calling for eviction ban to be extended → Read More
State has ‘turned a corner’ on housing with no rental sector tax breaks before budget, says Martin
Tánaiste’s comments come after reports that some Ministers favour rental tax breaks in coming months → Read More
Green Party group WhatsApp messages deleted after communications head criticises Neasa Hourigan in tweet
Two messages posted in Whatsapp group for party’s elected representatives, understood to be raising concern about the tweet, were deleted by another TD → Read More
No return to eviction ban even if homelessness spikes, Varadkar says
Taoiseach said Good Friday Agreement had left ‘cold peace’ but is still basis for future of island → Read More
Timing upcoming referendums will be almost as difficult for Coalition as winning them
Planned gender equality votes risk being shot through with other issues given charged debate in area → Read More
Work on housing referendum delayed over disagreement on constitutional reform
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says there is ‘a way to go yet’ on referendum with the wording still outstanding → Read More
Eviction mitigation measures: What are they and will they work?
Prospect of rise in homelessness will heap pressure on all schemes - new or existing - to work quickly → Read More
Inside the Cabinet: Why Ministers felt dropping eviction ban was only option
Landlord exodus, tax sweeteners, seeming permanence of ban, homelessness and extending the cost-rental scheme all influenced Cabinet’s final and very political decisio → Read More
Attorney General warned ‘substantial evidence’ needed to extend eviction ban
Cabinet told extending moratorium would be a ‘breach of trust’ with landlords → Read More
Eviction ban: What measures are proposed to counter homelessness when moratorium ends?
One change would see landlords selling up required to offer property to tenant first → Read More
Local authorities to be given individual targets for social housing purchases
Martin to brief Cabinet on Defence Forces participation in the UN Disengagement Observer Force → Read More
Department of Transport’s traffic-congestion agenda set to ruffle Coalition relationships
Policy options under consideration include charges, fuel price increases and cheaper public transport → Read More
Refugee accommodation: Stalled Thornton Hall ‘super prison’ among sites to get millions in funding
Ministers will be asked to approve measures aimed at easing refugee accommodation crisis on Friday morning → Read More
Eviction ban playing ‘important role’ but must be balanced with enticing new landlords
Minister for Public Expenditure says Government evaluating future of the ban → Read More
Inquiry into State’s handling of Covid crisis to be set up by middle of the year
Inquiry would not be designed to find fault with or praise individuals or bodies, but to focus on establishing facts to inform future responses to public health emergencies → Read More
Sacred cows of Ireland’s Covid-19 response called into question by softly spoken medic
The hospital consultant and professor of biology asks whether ‘institutions or individuals may have benefited in terms of status, power or wealth from the continuation of pandemic measures’ → Read More
Niall Collins says he acted correctly in Limerick planning application
Fianna Fáil Minister of State disputes website statements on his May 2001 planning application → Read More
Changed planning laws set to lay ground for ‘further centralisation of power’, Dáil group to hear
Housing committee to be briefed on danger of ‘further fundamental erosion of local government democracy’ → Read More
Omagh shooting: Taoiseach ‘deeply shocked’ by attack on PSNI officer
Minister for Justice condemns ‘brutal, horrific attack’ on off-duty PSNI officer → Read More
Omagh shooting: Off-duty police officer shot ‘putting footballs into his boot, accompanied by his young son’
Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell in critical condition in hospital after gun attack → Read More