The votes are in and counting is about to begin for the Galway West and Dublin Central byelections - stay with us for updates.
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Stamp duty relief for first-time buyers is off the table, Tánaiste Simon Harris told The Journal's politics podcast The Candidate.
But a tax package, childcare fee cuts and a renters' credit increase are all in play for October's budget. jrnl.ie/7066343
“This is bigger than football…At this present moment in time, there's an ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Sinn Féin TD Joanna Byrne.
Ahead of her party’s Dáil motion tonight, Byrne has stressed that the Nations League fixtures against Israel should not go ahead, full stop.
Ahead of bringing a bill to the Dail tomorrow which calls for a moratorium on data centres, Labour TD Ciarán Ahern asks “how much is enough” when it comes to them.
He says all renewable energy that's currently made in Ireland is being “cannibalized” by data centres & undermining climate goals.
Update on this: the Oireachtas Health committee has agreed this afternoon to invite the Rotunda and CUMH into a committee hearing on June 1, with the hope of getting answers to a number of outstanding questions.
Green TD Roderic O’Gorman says Simon Harris has pulled the rug on EV sales and retrofitting with his announcement that there will be some sort of package.
He said people who were thinking of investing in a heat pump or EV won’t invest now until supports come in.
Says details are needed now.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told the Dáil he will be voting in favour of Sinn Féin's bill to remove the three-day waiting period to access abortion care.
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The Journal joined Sinn Féin's Mark Lohan for a canvass in a rainy Galway West this afternoon.
With just days to go until voters go to the polls in the byelection, Lohan has his doorstep pitch down to a T.
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With one month to go until the by-election, Dublin Central's left-wing candidates kicked off the official campaign last night with a call to vote left, transfer left.
The delivery of the message was somewhat lacklustre from the candidates themselves, however.
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Two new TDs will soon be chosen to fill the seats left vacant by President Catherine Connolly and former finance minister Paschal Donohoe.
During Leaders' Questions this afternoon, the Social Democrats revealed that public-only consultants in Cork University Maternity Hospital have been receiving gifts to carry out private care.
It follows the revelation that the practice is also happening in the Rotunda Hospital.
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Left leaning candidates in the constituency chose to play nicely as they took part in the first panel event of the electoral race.
