Junior Education Minister Josepha Madigan has acknowledged some of the difficulties faced by schools.

Deputy Tully says NEDOC "has tried to engage with the HSE but it has refused to engage".

This morning, he was released from Castlerea prison after serving seven years behind bars.

Pauline Tully said it was 'hard to understand' the reasoning behind it all.

This evening's motion, if passed, would ban rent increases for three years, for both new and existing tenancies.

410 patients who attended the ED last year had to wait for 24 hours or more.

It's calling on the government to invest an extra 267 million euro in childcare to cut costs for parents.

He was responding to questions from Deputy Pauline Tully, and agreed with the Sinn Fein TD that there is a substantive gap in services locally.