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A Mayo county councillor has highlighted some questionable accounting techniques being applied to car-parking income generated at Murrisk Car-park, where tens of thousands come to climb the pilgrimage mountain of Croagh Patrick every year - which includes payments towards salaries of council staff and random invoices that could come from previous years.

Mayo County Council has voted to not vary the Local Property Tax (LPT) rate in the county for the next two years at the September meeting of the local authority which took place this week.

Mayo County Council Tourism Development Officer Anna Connor outlined a multitude of tourism projects underway throughout the county during a presentation to the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District this week.

A number of elected members of the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District have once again expressed their anger at the way that Mayo County Council had to hand back €2 million in funding for projects along the Clew Bay Greenway.

The elected members of the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District have given their go-ahead for a series of improvement works planned by the council for the town of Newport.

A Westport-based councillor has expressed disappointment that his council colleagues didn't press ahead and discuss fully the Mayo County Development Plan at a special meeting held this week, to consider a report on the plan from council chief executive Kevin Kelly, that included public submissions.

Mayo County Council will hold a special meeting at the end of February to discuss the action plan being put in place by council management following the loss of €2.1 million in Greenway funding.

The absence of a report on the Tidy Towns result from the agenda of the November meeting of the West Mayo Municipal District, was highlighted by councillors in Westport at their monthly meeting this week.

People who are looking to get a home in the Westport area and are earning between €30,000 and €40,000 a year are probably better off quitting their jobs and looking to get on the social housing list in order to get one of the new social houses being built in the town, local councillor Peter Flynn said this week.

It took almost a quarter-of-an-hour and the casting vote of the new Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council, Michael Smyth to pass a vote at the council's July meeting which was held remotely this week.