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Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has urged the Government to do much more to deliver gender equality, warning that many women still face unacceptable barriers to working after they have children.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has criticised the ever lengthening waiting list at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar with in excess of 8,992 persons awaiting an outpatient appointment.

Close to 60,000 people, including 5,243 children, are on waiting lists at Galway University Hospitals (UHG and Merlin Park) - the highest number of people on waiting lists at any hospital in the State.

Local Sinn Féin spokesperson on Defence, Deputy Sorca Clarke, has backed calls for an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse in the Defence Forces.

The end of the 1981 Hunger Strikes in the H-Blocks will be commemorated by Galway Sinn Féin next week.

Sinn Féin TD for Longford Westmeath Sorca Clarke has called on the government to pay child benefit in respect of 16-18 year olds over the summer months, after many families expecting the payment in recent times did not receive it.

Speaking in recent days, local Sinn Féin elected representative, Deputy Sorca Clarke, has said that the Government and local authorities should be seeking out small businesses in Westmeath and encouraging them to apply to the Small Business Assistance Scheme for Covid (SBASC) before it closes next month as relevant data provided revealed that only 60 grant submissions have been applied for in the county to date.

The June meeting of Mayo County Conucil took place this week, catch up with what was being discussed by the councillors. 

Tenders will issue later this year for the €24 million upgrade of Galway city’s Ceannt Station. A contractor is expected to be appointed in 2022, with construction expected to be completed by 2024.

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