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Talk of cuts in the State pension must stop now according to Age Action which has described the weekly payment as a vital buffer protecting older people from poverty.

The local authority housing list has grown to 2,657 people this year, as demand for housing has increased dramatically over the past two years. Two-bed units are most in demand in Kilkenny

Minister Mary Hanafin is wasting millions of euro every year by leaving people for long periods on a short-term rent supplement scheme, Fine Gael spokesperson Michael Ring TD has revealed.

Entrepreneurs, business owners and workers in Carlow-Kilkenny are losing out on significant tax savings according to new statistics just published by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office.

Teenagers who have previously been in receipt of jobseeker allowance are to be incentivised into education and training opportunities with the new supplementary budget according to Minister John McGuinness.

Labour Cllr Seán Ó hArgáin has urged families in Kilkenny to avail of the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BTSCFA) which is available to families on certain social welfare or other State payments to help with the costs of school clothes and footwear.

Fine Gael Deputy Michael Ring, spokesperson for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, has today claimed that Social Welfare local offices and regional offices are currently unable to cope with the influx of claims they are receiving.

The Fine Gael spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs Deputy Michael Ring has warned that newly unemployed people are being hung out to dry by the Government because social welfare offices in Mayo still do not have the staff levels to cope with the worsening unemployment crisis.

The Council for the West has again called for a shake-up of the planning laws of the country which, it says, are counter-productive to rural development and sustainability. The council made its first call for a more sensible approach to planning three years ago following objections to two planned developments, in Boyle, County Roscommon, and in Rossinver village in Co Leitrim. Upwards of 600 jobs and inward investment were lost.

Social welfare payments to 15 people in Athlone have been suspended and investigations carried out into over 100 cases, it emerged this week.