Labour TD Ged Nash said supermarkets announcing price reductions on some food items before a meeting with Minister for State Neale Richmond was a "PR exercise"

Junior minister Neale Richmond has said where input costs for products have fallen, ‘consumers will benefit’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dail the Government was introducing measures every month to help people struggling with bills.

The WRC’s information line dealt with almost 60,000 calls last year

Mr Richmond has said that the meeting is being convened specifically to discuss inflation in the grocery sector and "the very considerable worrying concerns that are coming in to all of our offices as TD's every day about the price of the weekly shop."

Representatives from major supermarkets will gather for the meeting on Wednesday, which has been called by Neale Richmond, the minister of state with responsibility for retail business.

Last weekend it emerged that retired hurler DJ Carey had his debt written down from €9.5 million to €60,000 in a settlement six years years ago

Debate around a United Ireland needs to move from cultural issues to practical and economic ones, according to political commentator Kevin Meagher

Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe recused himself from some of his duties on Sunday pending further analysis of the matter

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Mr Richmond has been a TD since 2020 and has contributed regularly on issues around the European Union, Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol

Fine Gael TD Neale Richmond, one of the 52 Irish politicians banned from Russia under a sanctions list, has reiterated his call for Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yury Filatov to be expelled

Three members of Fine Gael's finance committee said reducing the amount a child can inherit tax-free from their parent during a cost-of-living crisis would amount to "an attack on working families"

The debate on Irish unity must transition from "aspirational to achievable", according to Fine Gael spokesperson on European Affairs, Neale Richmond.

Anglo-Irish relations will remain challenging regardless of whether the next UK prime minister is Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss, according to a TD.