Deputy Murphy said the strategy should focus on improved availability at peak times and in rural Ireland, stronger accessibility in practice, and a fair and transparent framework for drivers and passengers.

The Tánaiste said: ‘This can’t be the wild west anymore.’

Fianna Fáil's support has slumped to just 15 per cent, its lowest level since the last general election

Meath Co Councillor Yemi Adenuga was verbally assaulted while she walked back to her car in Navan's town centre in an incident she has described as 'frightening and disturbing,'

Deputy Maeve O'Connell said pets are an important part of many families, and it is "deeply unfair" to force people to give up their pet to secure a home.

Micheál Martin said the pledge was a government-term commitment.

It was also revealed that 25,000 referrals of potential child sex abuse images were made to gardaí last year

Sinn Fein president Mary-Lou McDonald queried recent pay increase handed to the chiefs of semi state bodies.

The Fine Gael leader said he was not trying to create controversy, and nor was he dismissing the State’s “duty of care”, “but you have to have a right to housing in Ireland to be housed”.

Left-wing parties came together to canvass for President Catherine Connolly

The bill, introduced by People before Profit Solidarity TD, Ruth Coppinger, sought to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to ban the hunting of a fox or foxes.

The court heard that Liam Galvin sent Supt Eamon O’Neill an image of a fixed charge penalty notice relating to him being detected allegedly speeding at 142km/h in a 120km/h zone in 2017.

The Government has been accused of a ‘two-fingered salute’ to an entire generation after it shared advice to adults moving in with their parents.

Mr Cooney served as a government minister in the cabinets of Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald

Simon Harris was told his advice that people should not be afraid to turn their heating on was ‘cold comfort’.

O’Donovan told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that the comments had given him 'food for thought'

Ivan Yates has said he did ‘nothing wrong’ by not declaring to his audience that he had provided media coaching to Jim Gavin.

Doherty said ordinary people were suffering with the high cost of rent, energy bills and groceries, and the recent Budget left them worse off.

The former Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council and Mayor of Tralee was a politician for almost 30 years.

Tánaiste Simon Harris said it was ‘frustrating’ that Fine Gael’s candidate was asked about Mr Yates’ smear comments while he was being paid by another party.

Mr Kelly sought the party’s nomination at the same time as eventual candidate Heather Humphreys.

“Look, we fucked up,” is how Michael Finucane put it.

The defeated Irish presidential candidate said she and her family were subjected to ‘absolutely awful sectarian abuse’ during the campaign.

Leaders of parties which backed the independent candidate have been congratulating her ahead of an expected decisive victory.

Ms Humphreys told RTÉ: “Catherine will be a president for all of us, and she will be my president, and I really would like to wish her all the very, very best."

She grew up on a farm outside a village called Drum, located at the Cavan-Monaghan border.

The left wing independent TD has a 19 percentage point lead over Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys, according to the Business Post/Red C poll.

The people of Ireland will go to the polls on Friday to elect a successor to Michael D Higgins as president of the country.

Catherine Connolly said Fine Gael were ‘absolutely terrified’ of her campaign, in response to criticisms of her work as a barrister.

A video of the fire, as well as images of the charred remains of the camper van, were shared on social media.

The poll showed that combined support for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, at 35 per cent, is at a historic low.

A Minister of State has said the Government is still "trying desperately" to ensure services are included in the Occupied Territories Bill

Ivan Yates has responded to the controversy

Politicians have been told to stop bringing up the presidential election in the Dáil

The Education Minister also said the Connolly campaign should provide a full breakdown of her €3,700 taxpayers’ funded trip to Syria in 2018

Heather Humphreys also said she was not being ‘nasty’ in how she asked Catherine Connolly to answer questions.

Catherine Connolly was ahead in two recent polls ahead of the presidential election.

Mr Martin also said he was ‘glad to see that that has been resolved’ in relation to Mr Gavin reportedly repaying his former tenant.

‘I need all the votes I can get, there’s no question about that,’ Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys said.

The two presidential candidates were quizzed about their past records and plans for the presidency during the debate on RTE Radio 1.

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty made the claim during Leaders’ Questions on Thursday.

The Fianna Fáil deputy leader came under pressure for the selection of Mr Gavin as the party’s presidential nominee.

Cork East TD James O’Connor said Jim Gavin ‘should have never found himself on the ballot paper’ in the presidential election.