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The chairman of Westmeath’s Housing SPC says his greatest fear for 2014 is that people on the housing list won’t be able to access accommodation on the Rental Accommodation Scheme.

Hundreds of local authority tenants will have a warmer winter thanks to upgrade works designed to make homes warmer and more energy efficient.

The Mutton Island Wastewater Treatment Plant is due for a major upgrade, costing €6.4 million, which will allow the plant increase its capacity to deal with a population of up to 170,000.

Fine Gael councillor Michael Burke has welcomed the confirmation that negotiations are at an advanced stage for the introduction of a labour activation initiative known as Gateway, which is specifically designed to provide workplace opportunities for the long-term unemployed to undertake work in local authorities. Gateway is being developed jointly by the City and County Managers Association in conjunction with the Department Social Welfare, with assistance from the Department of Environment.

Planning permission has been granted for a €3.64 million new Wastewater Treatment Plant and Pumping Station for the An Spidéal area.

Community spirit is definitely in the air in Westmeath with a huge upturn in volunteering.

Delays in the preparation and implementation of a master plan for South Park has been slammed by Independent city councillor Catherine Connolly.

Suggestions that raw sewage from Mutton Island treatment plant is being discharged into Galway Bay has been strenously denied by Galway City Council.

Mayo County Council will be carrying out a “statutory assessment of housing needs” next year for the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government. Director of Services for Mayo County Council, Martin Keating, informed the members of the Housing Strategic Policy Committee of Mayo County Council of this assessment at their November meeting this week.

Six acres of land have been purchased by the Galway County Council for the provision of a new sewerage treatment system at Woodford in the south of the county.