Search Results for 'Car parking charges'

The reduced car parking charges in car parks run by the Galway City Council, come into effect this Saturday.

Westport town councillors have voted against the introduction of on-street car parking charges, from April to October, which means that the €150,000 revenue needed to “balance the books” for the 2011 budget needs to be culled from expenditure.

The HSE West’s plan to cut temporary staff’s working hours as part of its cost cutting measures could have implications for patient safety, it was claimed this week.

Despite pleas to Irish rail to hold off on their car parking charges at Carlow Railway Station, 11 local commuters were dismayed to find themselves clamped for not paying a new €2 parking charge at the station.

With the new year creeping around the corner it was budget time for the local authorities in Mayo over the past week. Mayo County Council will meet this afternoon (Friday) at 2pm to finalise its budget for the next year, while the three town councils in the county have wrapped up their budget proceedings, with Ballina leading the way by cutting their rateable valuation by one per cent for 2009, and Castlebar and Westport were able to hold off any rate increase for the new year.

Kilkenny City Labour Party candidate Sean Butler, has called on the city council to row back on the introduction of the new parking charges within Kilkenny city.

It was expected to be the toughest budget inflicted on Galway city in more than 20 years, however, thanks to an unprecedented cross party effort by all 15 city councillors, Galway was spared the worst in City Hall’s first budget of this current recession.

Rates in Athlone will only increase by 1 per cent this year, after the figures were set at Friday’s (December 19) budget meeting at the Council chambers.

Rates in Athlone will only increase by 1 per cent this year, after the figures were set at Friday’s (December 19) budget meeting at the Council chambers.

Running for the local elections, Sean Butler is a new candidate seeking a Labour Party seat on Kilkenny Borough Council. He has a tough job to contend with as there are already three sitting Labour Party councillors who are putting up a big fight to retain their seats.