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The Galway city and county councils are facing punishment from the Government in the form of cuts to services over non-payment of the household charge.

Galway County Council has been given approval by Environment Minister Phil Hogan to proceed with advance works for the Watermains Rehabilitation and Main Drainage Works Project for Ballinasloe town at a cost of more than €3 million.

With only nine days to the deadline for the payment of the highly controversial household charge, many homes in Galway city and county have still not received an information leaflet.

Thousands of homes across County Galway are likely to be targeted in the first wave of septic tank inspections from early next year according to Fianna Fáil Galway East TD Michael Kitt.

The septic tank charge is nothing else than a way of forcing “householders to once again foot the bill of Government negligence”.

Some 300 people attended the septic tank public meeting organised by Sinn Féin councillor Rose Conway-Walsh, in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet, on Monday evening last. The resounding message from the meeting was that people are not going to register their septic tanks or pay any fees at least until the long awaited Belmullet Sewerage Scheme is completed.

A new treatment plant costing in the region of €5.2 million could see the end of the wanton pollution of Kinvara Bay which has over many years been subjected to the discharge of more than 60,000 gallons of raw sewage into its watery depths every day.

A Winter-Ready Information Campaign has been launched by Kilkenny County Council following its launch at national level recently at the National Emergency Coordination Centre in Dublin.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan has stood by his decision to reprioritise the implementation of the Climate Change Bill in the face of recent criticism.

A group of angry Kilkenny people have voiced their opposition to the intended household charges, which are due to be introduced by Environment Minister Phil Hogan in January.