🏠 Minister James Browne TD is tackling housing with real delivery ✅ 198 social and affordable homes in Shankill 🚧 Sod turning of the Beckett Link Road, marking a regeneration project 🤝 Backing for Galway City Council's vital work on homelessness 🏡 Momentum is building.

This week the €2,000 Carer's Support Grant will be paid to over 147,000 carers nationally, with 33,654 grants paid across Dublin. It's paid for each person being cared for, recognising the dedication of carers who support older people and people with disabilities every day. If you need advice about any social protection payment or measure please get in touch 👍

Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Tomi Reichental, someone who dedicated his life to teaching new generations about the evil of The Holocaust.

Great to be at the Coal Harbour in Dún Laoghaire with Cllr Justin Moylan for the launch of Helios the new floating sauna Dún Laoghaire Harbour is a regional amenity. It belongs to everyone. And there's real progress happening right across it The floating sauna is open. There's paddle boarding, sailing, and cruise ships visiting. The National Watersports Campus is being developed. The Quarterdeck workspace at the old Ferry Terminal is taking its first tenants, affordable space for local start-ups and small businesses. And plans to restore the Sun Shelter on the East Pier are advancing to tender shortly It's all part of @dlrcc's new Harbour Masterplan. You can read the details at dlrcoco.ie Remember if you're out on the water this Bank Holiday weekend, take care and look out for one another Go raibh maith agaibh 🌊

The 11th plenary session of the North/South Inter-Parliamentary Association took place in the Seanad Chamber of Leinster House today. The Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy TD, chaired the plenary session with her Co-Chair, Speaker Edwin Poots MLA.   ➡️oir.ie/b8ea269

Delighted to welcome Alex Burghart MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, to Leinster House today for a series of engagements on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Sustained dialogue between Westminster and the Oireachtas remains essential to the work of the Agreement

📍During out visit to Ireland met with Speaker Verona Murphy and members of the Ireland–Ukraine Friendship Group @CormacDevlin and @carthy_aubrey, as well as Shane Moynihan, together with @OlekKorn. We discussed how to use Ireland’s upcoming EU Council Presidency to strengthen parliamentary cooperation, keep #Ukraine high on the European agenda, and create more opportunities for Ukrainian MPs to engage with colleagues across the EU. Also grateful for the interest in my @PACE_News work on gender stereotypes in the media – a resolution that began with a fact-finding visit to Dublin 🇮🇪 last year and is now moving toward committee approval and the Assembly debate in June! 💪

Chairing a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement with Minister Helen McEntee this evening to discuss the need for progress on the Legacy Bill and other issues. You can tune in here: oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-…

Lovely to catch up with so many friends from across the island as we marked the 100th anniversary of Fianna Fáil's foundation in 1926 🇮🇪 Congratulations to Pat McAuliffe from Dún Laoghaire who was elected to the Committee of 15 of the National Executive and everyone else elected at this historic Árd Fheis #AF84 #100bliain

A strong and uplifting speech by An Taoiseach Micheál Martin at our Centenary Ard Fheis last night #MovingIrelandForward #AF84 #100Bliain

Delighted to join Minister Jim O'Callaghan on the Safer Streets, Strong Communities panel at our 84ú Ard Fheis as we mark 100 years of Fianna Fáil 🇮🇪 Great to see the Minister's strong commitment to high-visibility policing, already making a real difference on the streets of Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock & Shankill and his determined work to restore public confidence in our migration system. When the public service is given clear direction, they deliver. Comhghairdeas to all involved in organising a brilliant Ard Fheis on this historic day. #AF84 #100bliain

Our public reps out in force in Dublin Central with John Stephens last night. Great engagement on the doors, the doorstep really is the best clinic! Vote Stephens #1

Pleased to meet and engage with MP’s on issues relating to trade, investment and greater co-operation between our two countries during their visit to Dublin.

The latest Garda recruitment competition is now live! Interested candidates have just over three weeks to apply - until 3 June 2026. Apply here on publicjobs.tal.net/vx/lang-e… #ItsAJobWorthDoing

Lovely to welcome Minister Jim O'Callaghan to Deansgrange Cemetery this afternoon for our annual Seán Lemass Commemoration Lemass believed in the power of transformative policies to improve the nation, a lesson as relevant today as it was in his time A special thank you to the Lemass family for joining us, to our piper Anthony Byrne, and to the Ógra Fianna Fáil colour party. Thanks too to the Officer Board of Dún Laoghaire Fianna Fáil and our Centenary Committee for organising a wonderful day Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis 🇮🇪

Lovely to welcome Minister Jim O'Callaghan to Deansgrange Cemetery this afternoon for our annual Seán Lemass Commemoration Lemass believed in the power of transformative policies to improve the nation, a lesson as relevant today as it was in his time A special thank you to the Lemass family for joining us, to our piper Anthony Byrne, and to the Ógra Fianna Fáil colour party. Thanks too to the Officer Board of Dún Laoghaire Fianna Fáil and our Centenary Committee for organising a wonderful day Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis 🇮🇪

A wonderful morning at the Alzheimer’s Tea Day event at the Royal Marine Hotel 💜 DLR Chamber President Colin Brown and CEO Colette O'Sullivan were proud to present a €6,000 donation to The Alzheimer Society of Ireland, raised through our International Women’s Day Lunch earlier this year. The funds will support the ASI Coffee & Chat service for Young-onset Dementia at Kay’s Kitchen, Frascati Centre - Dublin’s first Dementia Inclusive Centre. Thank you to everyone who joined us today 💜 @alzheimersocirl @royalmarine @CormacDevlin @FrascatiCentre #AlzheimersTeaDay #DLRChamber #DementiaAwareness

Great to be at Dún Laoghaire Baths this morning with Cllr JustinMoylan for the launch of UrbanDip 🌊 A really exciting EU-funded pilot from the Council and DCU using AI and real-time sampling to give swimmers better, faster information on water quality. UrbanDip combines a near real-time bathing water sampler with AI-powered pollution forecasting. In plain terms, that means faster and more accurate information for the swimmers, walkers and families who use the Baths year-round. It's a three-year research project, fully EU-funded, led by the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities in partnership with Dublin City University. Dún Laoghaire has been chosen as one of just three pilot sites across Europe — a real vote of confidence in DCU and in the Council. Back in 2022, when the Baths reopened, I called in the Dáil for real-time, year-round water quality information to be made available to the public. UrbanDip is exactly the kind of innovation I had in mind, and credit is due to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and the team at DCU for getting this off the ground. Looking forward to seeing the results over the coming bathing seasons. You can learn more here: dlrcoco.ie/news/general-news…

Delighted to be in Belfast today for a truly significant announcement: €700m investment in a new Enterprise fleet. This heralds a new chapter for cross-border rail connectivity, supporting the Dublin-Belfast Corridor to become even more connected, prosperous and sustainable. 🚆

Lovely to join @CormacDevlin @MReynoldsFF in welcoming Minister @mmoynihantd to both Johnstown Girls National School & Carmona Sch at Dunmore House today. Great to see the excellent work of all our Sch. Communities and, I welcome the record €3bn of funding in Special Education👏