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Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has said he will not reverse the decision to cut four special needs assistants from St Anthony’s Special School in Castlebar. The Minister was approached by Fine Gael deputy John O’Mahony outside the Dáil on Wednesday night, while at the same time a public meeting was being held in the Castlebar school to protest against the proposed cuts.

There are no plans to curtain A&E services at Mayo General Hospital, according to assurances given in the Dáil to Beverley Flynn TD.

Disappointment has been expressed at Fianna Fáil and the Greens’ decision to vote against the Fine Gael Dáil motion this week which would have restored roads and radically shaken-up the water services in Mayo. However the Fine Gael proposal in turn has been dubbed “hypocritical” and labelled as another political stunt by Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

There is good news for Mayo consumers as the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association has agreed to Government requests to reduce the cost of drugs. That’s according to Mayo Fianna Fáil TD and member of the Oireachtas Health Committee, Beverley Flynn. MEP Jim Higgins has also welcomed the cuts having written to the Minister for Health last November seeking the reduction from manufacturers.

Additional teaching posts have been allocated to three schools in County Mayo, according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

Following the announcement of almost €12 million roads funding for Mayo by the National Roads Authority, Mayo Fine Gael Deputy Michael Ring has criticised the allocation. The Westport deputy told the Mayo Advertiser: “What we need now is less spinning from the Government and more tar on the roads. We’ve had enough of it. The NRA funding has gone up by around €220,000 this year, but a lot of that is down to the N5 Bohola to Westport road.”

Disappointment has been expressed at Fianna Fáil and the Greens’ decision to vote against the Fine Gael Dáil motion this week which would have restored roads and radically shaken-up the water services in Mayo. However the Fine Gael proposal in turn has been dubbed “hypocritical” and labelled as another political stunt by Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

The decentralisation of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to Charlestown is secure, and funding for the Western Rail Corridor is on track.

The five-member delegation from Mayo County Council which met with the Oireachtas Committee for Environment, Heritage and Local Government left Government buildings on Tuesday night happy that they had put forward their best case for the retention of the new Mayo County Development Plan. The issue of the plan has rumbled on since it was adopted in April unanimously by the 31 elected members of Mayo County Council, with a number of submissions and changes put forward by the Minister for Environment, John Gormley, and his department and issued on his behalf by County Manager Des Mahon.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn has welcomed the sanctioning of additional financial support of €12 million for older people in private nursing homes.