From a package of free schoolbooks for primary school pupils to today's Dáil vote on the eviction ban, here is the March 22 news bulletin
Primary schools to get €96 per pupil for ‘free’ schoolbooks
Primary schools are to receive almost €100 per pupil to buy schoolbooks and copybooks which they may purchase from any bookshop under guidance due to issue to schools later this week. It follows a Government announcement in Budget 2023 of a package of free schoolbooks for more than 500,000 primary school pupils from September 2023 at a cost of about €54 million. Informed sources say a funding package of €96 per student will be paid to schools to cover schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks.
Nursing home residents will be able to keep all income raised from renting their family home under significant changes to the Fair Deal scheme. In response to the long-running housing crisis and the ending of the eviction ban, the Government has committed to “eliminate remaining barriers” for older people wanting to rent out their homes when they are in care.
Gwyneth Paltrow “slammed very hard” into a fellow skier, hitting him directly in the back, as he fell face down, lying “spread-eagled” in the snow, a US court has heard. The Hollywood actress, 50, has been accused of “dangerous” and “reckless” behaviour before “bolting” down the slope without saying a word, as she faces claims she seriously injured Terry Sanderson in a “hit-and-run” crash in 2016.
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Ending eviction ban will see 'levels of homelessness nobody thought possible', Dáil toldSinn Féin has told the Government that the decision to end the ban on evictions at the end of the month will lead to 'levels of homelessness that nobody ever thought was possible'.
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Q&A: How do numbers add up on Dáil eviction ban vote and what will happen tonight?Green and Independent votes under pressure this week as Opposition lays down challenges
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Dáil to vote this evening on eviction ban motion after tense debateThe Dáil yesterday evening debated the motion which is calling for the eviction ban to be extended until January next year.
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Regional Independents pile further pressure on Government over eviction banThere were sharp exchanges during the debate, with Sinn Féin deputy leader Pearse Doherty calling Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien “the minister for homelessness” while Eoin Ó Broin called on the Minister to “get your head out of the sand”.
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