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The Housing Agency is working to determine an “appropriate rent” for residents of an independent living facility in Sligo, after an affordable housing charity announced major hikes for tenants.

Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly has called for a ban on e-scooters and for the introduction of legal protections for gardaí pursuing scramblers and e-scooters.

The Government has agreed to mediation with women who suffered abuse in a Cork school in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) should undertake a “comprehensive assessment” of the financial and legal implications of walking away from building a children's science centre, an Oireachtas committee has recommended.

The Central Bank has said it cannot use a risk of genocide in deciding whether to approve Israeli bond prospectuses, the Oireachtas finance committee has heard.

Concerns about the fire safety of toilets within the new National Children's Hospital have emerged, with further delays to the project now likely, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Government has been accused of “sleepwalking” into the crisis around alumina exports to Russia.

Further delays to the handover of the National Children's Hospital have been lambasted by opposition TDs, but the health minister insisted the project must be completed to standard.

Over €20m has been spent on a State stipend scheme supporting Ukrainian students attending third-level education in Ireland since 2022, new figures show.

Justice minister Jim O'Callaghan has described it as an “aberration” that over 30,000 speeding offences were detected by a single static camera in one year.