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Members of Kilkenny Borough Council have expressed concern about the new approach to the provision of social housing that has been proposed by the Government and taken on by local authorities in Kilkenny and across the country.

Mayo county manager Des Mahon has urged the elected members of the Mayo County Council to take up the polluter pays principle as a political issue as the council tries to plan its investment programme for the next year. Mr Paddy Mahon, director of services for water, gave the elected members the list of programmes the council has earmarked as priorities for the council over the coming year. While each project listed is a priority, the big issue was the local contribution that had to be made towards the scheme under the polluter pays principle.

In a discussion surrounding Mayo County Council’s corporate plan, which spans a five year period from 2010 to 2014, Fine Gael councillor Peter Flynn suggested that the council should increase its range of services, due to the scaling back of other government agencies, with Mayo County Council taking on these additional services so everything is dealt with “under one umbrella”.

The controversial one-way traffic management system looks like it’s back on the agenda after it was revealed at this week’s town council meeting (November 2) that an agreement had been reached “in principle” with Bus Eireann over the sticking point of the station field.

Mayo Science and Technology Festival — now in its third year — has organised an innovative night of presentations, discussion, and debate on the types of technology that might be in use in 30 years time and how these will affect our lives and those of our children. Entitled Mayo 2040, the night is aimed at entrepreneurs, business people, teachers, parents, and anyone with an interest in what Mayo might be like in 30 years’ time.

The members of the Claremorris electoral area committee threw their support behind a motion from Independent Councillor Richard Finn that called on Mayo County Council to offer its full support for the proposed new Bio-spark plant in the town.

The members of the Claremorris electoral area committee were told that it was the Department of the Environment which was holding up improvement works on the cemetery in Ballinrobe, rather than the council’s heritage officer. Seamus Granhan, director of services for Mayo County Council, was responding to a notice of motion put forward by Fianna Fáil Councillor Damien Ryan which asked the county manager “to intervene in relation to the ongoing hold up in the Ballinrobe cemetery and improvement works which are currently at a standstill due an intervention by the heritage officer”.

There is an estimated €7,029,542 worth of housing grants waiting for approval in Mayo County Council under three grant schemes operated by the council, the housing SPC of the council was told this week. The three grant areas that the council handle are the mobility grants scheme, the housing adaptation grant scheme for people with disabilities, and the housing aid for older people.

The Environment SPC of Mayo County Council proposed to put forward a set of bye-laws in relation to the protection of Lough Mask and other lakes from bio-security risks, to be forwarded on to the Department of Environment so that measures can be put in place for the council to legally enforce the laws.

The Environment SPC of Mayo County Council proposed to put forward a set of bye-laws in relation to the protection of Lough Mask and other lakes from bio-security risks, to be forwarded on to the Department of Environment so that measures can be put in place for the council to legally enforce the laws.