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A new household charge announced by local Minister Phil Hogan is set to affect some 1.8 million households in the country with a number of exemptions for the lower paid.

Capital funding for a new library for Kilkenny has been allocated this week after months of waiting to hear if the proposed project would ever materialise.

€125,000 has been allocated by central government for pedestrian and cycle links from Kilkenny city centre under the Smarter Travel Initiative — less than half of what had originally been sought by Kilkenny Local Authorities.

A number of local flood relief projects in Kilkenny are set to proceed shortly, according to the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan.

Galway East TD Michael Kitt has called for a commitment from the Government to support and create local jobs by ensuring water meters due to be installed in Galway homes will only be installed by local fitters.

The Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has announced a new charge on householders, set to be introduced early next year in a bid to buff up local authority coffers.

Ballyragget Fine Gael District are hosting a special celebratory function at Castlecomer Golf Club on this Friday at 8pm.

The Government is to slash the number of TDs in the Oireachtas and there are also plans to enforce a rule stating that all by elections must be held within six months, according to Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan.

Kilkenny’s new Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Phil Hogan has said that the prospects of a new city library are in the pipeline and that he hoped that this project might go ahead in 2011- 2012.

Kilkenny Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan made his first return to his old stomping ground at County Hall this week when he was invited to speak at a working meeting with the members