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Westmeath County Council’s budget has been passed without amendment and with no frontline services cut.

An estimated one in eight calls to the Samaritans last year related to the recession and very often concerned financial insecurity.

Amid widespread concern that a number of garda stations in the Connemara region are under threat of future closure a local county councillor has moved to allay these fears, stressing that “no decisions” have yet been made.

A Galway widow who owes the HSE West a €100 A&E fee is being threatened with legal action, yet some hospital consultants at University and Merlin Park Hospitals are costing the health authority millions by failing to sign off private health insurance claims promptly, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

University and Merlin Park hospitals paid almost €1.5 million to private security firms over the past five years for patient security and other security work, it was revealed this week.

The HSE West has overspent by €34.6 million in the first four months of the year and this debt could reach €100 million by December, a meeting of the HSE West Forum was warned this week.

A member of the HSE West’s regional health forum warned this week that the health authority could be €100 million over budget by the end of the year.

If Fine Gael is given the mandate from the Irish people this Friday, the party will immediately set about implementing our Five Point Plan to get Ireland working, according to Fine Gael Longford-Westmeath election candidate Nicky McFadden.

Mayo General Hospital has always been used as a political pawn but its future is one which is of the utmost importance to the people of this county.

Fine Gael’s 5 Point Plan will get Ireland working and will modernise public services, protect the frontline, ensure public sector pay is not hit, and support the taxpayer according to Fine Gael’s John O’Mahony.