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The Galway Ring Road is a project that, if planning is granted, will be funded by Government. I was one of the negotiating team that formulated the Programme for Government and I worked to secure the Government’s commitment to progressing and delivering this critical piece of strategic infrastructure for Galway.

Addressing the most recent sitting of Athlone-Moate Municipal District, Fine Gael councillor, John Dolan, called upon Westmeath County Council to adopt an inclusive playground policy to allow all such amenities be disabled friendly.

Seanad Eireann is celebrating its 100th anniversary and in that hundred years some of the greatest and most noted people took their place in the Higher House of the Irish Parliament.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin launched the second phase of the cross border Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) programme with an investment of €21.3 million to train 42 fellows in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine.

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien was in Galway on Tuesday to visit construction sites in Galway comprising 184 new social homes being delivered by approved housing body Respond, in partnership with Galway City Council.

A number of young people and members of Foróige in Mayo spoke out on the climate crisis directly to policy-makers recently and engaged in discussion with TDs and Senators on a range of topics relating to environment and climate action - during a sitting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action chaired by Committee Chairperson, Brian Leddin TD.

The importance of the potential of the wind energy industry to Galway and the west will be underlined next week when Taoiseach Micheal Martin will address a major conference being held in the city to explore the benefits of an industry that could create 3,000 jobs locally over the next decade.

Fine Gael Deputy Ciaran Cannon has welcomed an allocation of just under €1m in funding for outdoor recreation projects across Co. Galway. The funding announcement has been made this week by Rural Affairs Minister Heather Humphreys as part of the national Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme.

Local Fianna Fáil Senator, Eugene Murphy, is launching a bill to help address flooding issues along the River Shannon, the aim of the new legislation being to remove outdated water level restrictions on ESB regulated lakes along the river.