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Eamon Ryan, the Minister for Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources will be in Galway today to speak in NUI, Galway and visit the Let’s Do It Galway headquarters.

Following an admission by Minister Eamon Ryan that the Government’s scheme to ensure nationwide access to broadband will not be completed until 2010, Councillor Patsy O’Brien has again raised the issue at a local level.

Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White, has said she is going to urge Kilkenny’s local authorities to facilitate the oncoming era of electric vehicles.

The response to the Government’s announcement last week that a new community forum is to be established to tackle the long-running Corrib gas saga has been received positively, although Shell to Sea have yet to release a statement on the matter.

The new Corrib Community Forum, which is due to hold its first meeting this morning (Friday) under the chairmanship of Mr Joe Brosnan, could be in for a rocky start due to the lack of representation by leading community groups.

Dep Paul Connaughton has called for funding to be made available to install broadband infrastructure when the streets of Tuam are dug up for the town’s new €23 million sewerage scheme.

With almost half the grants for insulation used, the Energy Minister Eamon Ryan has urged householders in Kilkenny to avail of the Government’s Home Energy Saving Scheme.

Despite commitments from Minister Ryan, it has been confirmed that the National Broadband Scheme is suffering more delays with the signing of the contract for the scheme, according to Fine Gael Deputy Michael Ring.

Labour’s Harry Barrett has hit out at the failure of the Government to provide a €2 million grant aid package promised to the county for ocean energy.

The chairmen of the Western and North Western Regional Fisheries Boards have made a joint plea to Minister Eamon Ryan and Minister of State Sean Power to retain the two fisheries regions and their head offices in Galway and Ballina, when the fisheries boards are abolished and a new Inland Fisheries Authority is created later this year. Under Government proposals, the two regions are to be amalgamated.