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Sandra Hurley

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Political Reporter at RTÉ

RTÉ Political Reporter. My views are my own.

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  • 1 week ago | rte.ie | Sandra Hurley

    Uisce Éireann will tell TDs and Senators today that it requires an additional €2bn to deliver the water services capacity needed to reach the Government's revised housing targets. The water services utility is to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery. Chief executive Niall Gleeson will say that the new higher housing targets of 300,000 new homes by 2030 means it requires additional ringfenced funding.

  • 2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Sandra Hurley

    The Oireachtas Committee examining the proposed law to remove the Triple Lock has written to Minister for Defence Simon Harris expressing concerns over the timeline for it to complete its scrutiny of the bill. The Defence and National Security Committee met today to discuss its approach to the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025. It is proposed that the committee spends eight weeks examining the bill.

  • 2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Sandra Hurley

    Opposition TDs have rounded on comments made by Independent TD Michael Lowry as evidence that he is "calling the shots in Government". The Tipperary TD told the Sunday Times newspaper that senior Cabinet ministers gave his Regional Independent Group weekly briefings.

  • 2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Sandra Hurley

    Minister of State for Migration Colm Brophy has said the U-turn by the Department of Justice on housing asylum seekers in Coolock was due to the move towards State-acquired properties and State IPAS centres. He told RTÉ's This Week programme that this policy shift would be good for the taxpayer. On Friday, it emerged that the Department of Justice had reversed a plan to house asylum seekers at the site of a former paint factory in Coolock in Dublin. The proposal had seen prolonged local opposition.

  • 2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Sandra Hurley

    The Minister for Health will publish an audit on unnecessary hip operations for children as soon as she has "digested it" after receiving it, Minister of State Robert Troy has told RTÉ's The Week In Politics.

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9 May 25

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29 Apr 25

RT @rtenews: The Government has announced a major overhaul of asylum laws, billed as the most significant reform of the area in the history…