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Regional TDs call for the immediate national implementation of a Vitamin D strategy
I along with the Independent members of the Regional Group are calling on government to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas Health Committee report from April this year addressing Vitamin D deficiency as a public [...]
Scheme to provide Sewerage Treatment Plants to unserved villages and settlement centres vital to delivery of housing
I believe that a scheme to provide Wastewater Treatment Plants is required as a matter of urgency in order to deliver housing and allow the regions to grow. “Villages like Craughwell, Corofin and Abbeyknockmoy are [...]
Restrictions on the harvesting of horticultural peat a fiasco
Sean Canney Independent TD has stated that the restrictions imposed on the harvesting of horticultural peat is a fiasco with imports of the same material increasing on a weekly basis. It is typical of a [...]
Seamount College Kinvara deserve proper Sports Hall facility
I have expressed concern that the Department of Education have refused to grant aid the construction of a Sports Hall at Seamount College Kinvara. In this era sport, exercise and wellbeing are all part of [...]
Welcome Planning approval for Galway City Ring Road
I welcome the decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for the Galway City Ring Road this week. The Ring Road form part of the overall Galway Transport Strategy for the City. The project [...]
Welcome funding for Town Centre First Plans for Gort
I welcome the announcement by Minister Heather Humphreys that Gort has been chosen as one of the 26 towns in the country which will be provided with 100,000 to support the development of its own [...]