Banking Labour’s Nash calls for grace on missed payments during bank switchoversThe Labour Party’s finance spokesman says anomalies should not be reported to CCR for ‘three or four months’, to give leeway for errors and delays
Housing Agency vacant property fund falling short of targetNumber of acquisitions decreased each year due to ‘reducing availability of suitable units from banks and equity funds,’ Department of Housing says
ICTU boss says industrial action ‘inevitable’ if pay deal unaltered Kevin Callinan, president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, said current agreement wasn’t ‘fit for purpose’ following leap in inflation
Highest civil service post only open to those in the sectorThe government will not seek applications from the private sector to succeed top mandarin Martin Fraser when he leaves the job later this year
New CSO ‘wellbeing dashboard’ will include high housing costsThe Central Statistics Office has been developing a new way of measuring quality of life beyond economic figures
Donohoe says sale of bank stakes may take several market cycles Minister for Finance says that while the government did not envisage the state being a long-term investor in the banking sector, neither did it see itself divesting its full shareholding for some time
Donohoe under pressure to allow outsiders apply for top Finance jobDepartment’s €212,000-a-year secretary general post restricted to civil service candidates as a ‘level one’ appointment
Limiting applicants to top Department of Finance job ‘brings us back to the bad old days’Government ‘intent on producing its own version of Reeling in the Years’ by not opening applications to those outside the civil service, according to Ged Nash