It has emerged that a number of Fine Gael TDs are to "lobby hard" in the coming weeks for the Finance Minister Michael Noonan to alter the structure of the new property tax. Sun, 13 Jan, 2013 - 12:20 ...

TDs are to fight for Government compensation for victims of flooding in Cork, so payments to hardship cases can be made by the Irish Red Cross in the same way as to other victims in Athlone, Dublin ...

Wicklow Municipal District will write to Wicklow's TDs, asking them to lobby on behalf of the planned greenway from Wicklow town to Greystones. Irish Rail commissioned Arup to review the Irish Coastal ...

A major lobby of rural TDs has taken place to press for a suspension of the carbon tax that is due to come into effect in ten days time. Billy Somerville, chairman, Sligo IFA Co. Executive, said IFA ...

Ministers preparing the Government’s long-term investment plan, to be published in the coming weeks, are being lobbied intensively by rural TDs over a perceived “urban bias” in the proposals. Minister ...

TDs are still lobbying for their constituents’ passport applications to be speeded up, despite the withdrawal of a fast-track system last year. A drop-off service in Leinster House was removed during ...

The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) is to lobby all TDs and senators to seek a change in proposals which it says will seriously affect the pensions of primary teachers. According to the ...

Members of the Dáil Select Committee on Foreign Affairs are in Washington to lobby on behalf of the estimated 20,000 undocumented Irish in the United States. They arrive as the full US Senate debates ...

A nationwide campaign begins today to lobby TDs for support against the pension levy. Thousands of public servants and their families will visit the constituency offices of politicians around the ...