The tripartite agreement had sailed along with little threatening to take it down, but this week’s row about the duration of State accommodation for Ukrainian refugees represented a challenge

‘Heated’ discussion on plan for three-month accommodation limit

Roderic O'Gorman, Minister for Children, Equality, Integration, Disability and Youth, made the announcement at the Green Party conference in Cork city today

The figures also show more women contacted the helpline (84%) than men (15.7%)

'Disgrace and shame' that 5,000 community and voluntary-sector agency health workers are forced to take strike action

There are different ways of looking at childcare fees and provision in Ireland. You can compare what we have, to what we should have, to what we did have.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said households will get help with their electricity bills over the winter months

Roderic O'Gorman was reacting to a report that Eamon Ryan was warned by Transport Infrastructure Ireland that failure to properly invest in projects could lead to 77 additional deaths and 381 serious injuries over the next five years

Childcare professionals protesting at Leinster House were both frustrated and irritated, most notably with Roderic O’Gorman, over the failure of core funding to alleviate cost pressures on services, writes Cianan Brennan

Public Expenditure Minister urges caution about Budget 2024, saying that funds available for new measures will be 'tight'

Roderic O’Gorman said the current system was 'absolutely central' to the Government’s core funding policy for the sector

Federation of Early Childhood Providers chairwoman Elaine Dunne accused the Government of supporting "the bureaucratic administrations, rather than the care and education of young children".

The protests, ongoing since Friday, are taking place outside a renovated stables in Castletara which is set to accommodate international protection applicants

The State is currently accommodating some 93,000 people, with 70,000 Ukrainians and 23,000 international protection applicants

Minister to present new white paper on ending the system, just two years after the first plan was launched

Some 12 of 49 recommendations made by the report address access to the service, as inspectors found “lengthy waiting lists” with an average wait between referral and assessment of three months

The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, which will cost the state €800m, has caused concern for many survivors

However, some children in the Department of Children's Growing Up In Ireland report were struggling in one or more areas

The sister of one of the babies believed to be buried in a mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway, has called on the public to “bring a shovel” to the site to protest delays over the excavation.

The Irish Examiner also understands a tender is being prepared for “floating accommodation” at Dublin and Cork Port

That those negotiations are necessary at all underlines the shameful reluctance of church leaders, religious congregations, and lay Catholic organisations to face up to the systemic abuse inflicted over several decades

There were 12,259 people in emergency accommodation in April, including almost 3,600 children.

Religious orders have yet to agree how much they will contribute toward the mother and baby home redress scheme

Ministers "thanked An Garda Síochána for their work in policing a number of incidents in recent weeks", but one Government TD says gardaí are not doing enough.

"We meet on a regular basis — he is only across the corridor, and there's no tension between us," said Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien after reports of a clash with Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman.

Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman on Wednesday indicated he will not travel to meet the protesters and insisted the hotel will be used to accommodate refugees

His request comes after a clash at Cabinet over the handling of the accommodation crisis

The Government has faced criticism again for failing to adequately communicate with people in Inch, Co Clare

The council has issued an enforcement notice calling for conversion works at Ryevale House to be ceased. The protected structure is currently accommodating 80 refugees

Survivors' group say they have written to Government more than 30 times over concerns thousands of 'boarded out' survivors will be excluded from redress scheme

Cabinet expects to hear of an EU-wide approach as it considers how accommodating refugees in hotels affects tourism providers

Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman has confirmed that no Ukrainian residents will be moved on Tuesday, pending 'further consultation on the matter'

Stalling of negotiations with six religious orders will not impact the opening of the scheme, officials say

Currently, 538 people who arrived here seeking international protection are without State accommodation and many have been left homeless

Roderic O'Gorman said any developments on the site of the former mother and baby institution should 'give adequate consideration to the views of survivors and families' members and their request for appropriate access and respectful memorialisation'

Ireland has added the population of Galway in a year, but Social Justice Ireland says "there is no clarity as to what pathways to protection will be available" if the war in Ukraine drags on for years.

Ukrainians whose medical cards are due for annual review soon are set to get a three-month extension.

Ireland is one of the first countries to introduce statutory domestic violence leave, as well as rights to request flexible working arrangements

Irish families hoping to have a baby through surrogacy abroad are still using services in Ukraine, despite the war, a clinic in Kyiv has said.

In an email sent to survivors' groups on Thursday evening, Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman said the remit of the role will be to work with "those who spent time in all such institutions”.

Government bows to pressure from advocacy groups over fears of risk to victims and potential for financial hardship

Redress plan widely criticised following the exclusion of a number of categories of survivors.

The Government has moved a step closer to banning conversion therapy after a study from Trinity College called the practice "traumatising", "destructive", "anxiety-provoking", "horrendous", "harmful" and "damaging".

Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman also confirmed €41m is owed to hotels across the State who are offering accommodation to Ukrainians