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Valuation Office - The Valuation Office is the State property valuation agency.

Central Statistics Office - CSO news, publications and releases, Freedom of Information, Principal Statistics, statistics due out plus a student's corner.

Courts Service - Official site contains information on courts, offices, and a courts newsletter.

Reach - A government agency seeking to improve access to public services, modernise government and develop modern electronic systems including a Public Services Broker.

Office of Public Works - Provides property, construction and procurement services to the Government and the public sector.

National Archives of Ireland - Information on public archives and genealogy.

Companies Registration Office - The authority for the incorporation of new companies and the registration of business names in Ireland. Downloadable forms, a price list, and FAQs.

Údarás na Gaeltachta - Gaeltacht Regional Development Authority.

Information Society Commission - Advisory commission working to shape public policy framework for the "Information Society"; and promote awareness of the opportunities presented by information and communication technologies.

Irish Aviation Authority - The Irish Aviation Authority regulates safety standards of civil aviation, providing air traffic management and aeronautical communications services.

Irish Social Services Inspectorate - The Social Services Inspectorate is an independent body which inspects the social services functions of the health boards.

National Library - Includes online catalogues (Java-based).

Office of the Ombudsman - The Ombudsman investigate complaints from members of the public who feel they have been unfairly treated by certain public bodies.

Land Registry and Registry of Deeds - Provides for registration of title and registration of deeds in relation to land. Sets out functions, services, contact points, legislation, publications and registration practice.

Midland Regional Authority - Midland Regional Authority comprises 25 elected public representatives who are nominated to the Authority by each of the constituent local authorities (Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath).

Data Protection Commissioner - Contains information on the rights of citizens and the responsibility of data gatherers, plus directions on how to file complaints.

ODEI - The Equality Tribunal - Ireland's tribunal remedying unlawful discrimination. Equality, types of discrimination prohibited by law, services, information, news, forms, time extensions, mediation services, contact details.

Sustainable Energy Ireland - Promotes and assists the development of sustainable energy in Ireland.

National Childrens Advisory Council - An independent advisory body to advise the Minister on all aspects of childrens lives, including the development of child wellbeing indicators and better co-ordination and delivery of services to children.

Special Residential Services Board - Responsible for advising the Ministers for Health and Children and Education and Science on policy relating to the remand and detention of children charged or convicted of offences.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Executive Agencies His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Executive Agencies The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Executive Agencies Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Executive Agencies Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Executive Agencies He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Executive Agencies The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Executive Agencies Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Executive Agencies In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Executive Agencies Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Executive Agencies Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Executive Agencies It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Executive Agencies "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Executive Agencies That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Executive Agencies "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Executive Agencies America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Executive Agencies Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Executive Agencies Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Executive Agencies This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Executive Agencies .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Executive Agencies "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Executive Agencies Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Executive Agencies
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