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The members of the Ballina Electoral Area committee will meet each month from now on. The electoral area committee, which comprises the elected county councillors from the Ballina area and the Méara of Ballina Town Council, along with a number of officials from Mayo County Council, had previously met once every two months.

Killala based Fine Gael councillor Jarlath Munnelly this week called on Mayo County Council to produce a masterplan for the lands it owns at the old Asahi site in Killala. Cllr Munnelly put forward the notice of motion at the November meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area Committee.

Both of Ballina’s elected Dáil deputies were involved in a war of words this week at the monthly meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area committee. Fianna Fáil Dep Dara Calleary TD and Fine Gael Dep Michelle Mulherin TD, had been invited by the councillors to attend the meeting to discuss the N26 upgrade scheme which has been shelved following a ruling by An Bord Pleanála last year.

Mayo County Council is coming under pressure from the Department of Environment to get the new social housing leasing scheme up and running, despite the protestations of both the council officials and members about the scheme.

The issue of the upgrading of the N26 is to be kept to the forefront of the local issues according to the members of the Ballina Electoral Area committee this week.

The members of the Ballina Electoral Area committee are to write to the incoming minister for housing when the incoming government is formed next week.

“I’ll leave no stone unturned, we want the N26,” Fine Gael councillor Eddie Staunton said this week. “It’s our turn now, you only have to look at the likes of the roads they have got in Cork and Kerry.”

The elected members of the Ballina Electoral Area Committee this week called on senior planner for Mayo County Council, John McMyler, to look again at an application that is down for refusal.

Fine Gael councillor Jarlath Munnelly hit out at vandals who caused damage to the town park in Killala. Cllr Munnelly was speaking at the monthly meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area committee which was held in the new Ballina Arts Centre.

The long running saga of the N26 linking Ballina to the N5 and beyond is set to run on for at least another year before a new preferred route for the road emerges. The item was up for discussion at the September meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area Committee this week where Tony McNulty, road design senior executive engineer with Mayo County Council, answered a number of questions from the elected councillors in the area.