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Deputy Denis Naughten has welcomed the announcement by the West Northwest Hospitals Group to suspend its controversial review of maternity services in the region.

Campaign groups have vowed to continue their fight to maintain psychiatric beds at St Brigid’s Hospital in Ballinasloe, after a motion aimed at saving the 22-bed psychiatric unit was defeated in the Seanad on Wednesday.

Two Roscommon councillors are calling for water charges to be suspended for businesses in areas of the county where water is unsafe for consumption.

The air ambulance service based in Custume Barracks, Athlone is to be extended until March, pending a decision on its long-term future.

Efforts are under way to expel controversial senator Fidelma Healy-Eames from Fine Gael and force her to hand over her membership card — however the Galwegian could become a symbol for tensions within the party over the current leadership.

Denis Naughten TD has welcomed a new technology business that will help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) win a greater share of public sector contracts worth €12 billion. He said that the opportunities were huge for local SMEs to win a far greater share of public sector tenders.

Local TD Denis Naughten is proposing a bill in the Dáil this morning [Friday], which if passed would allow information on sex offenders to be made available to the parents of children and vulnerable adults who may be at risk.

Members of the local community in Ballinasloe are to stage marches both in Ballinasloe and at Leinster House to protest at the closure of a psychiatric unit in St Brigid’s Hospital.

The HSE has denied it is “fast-tracking” the closure of a psychiatric unit in Ballinasloe, but accepted it would be closed by the end of the year as part of its policy of re-integrating patients back to society from such institutions.