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Drowning is frighteningly the second cause of death and injury for children in the EU, the primary causes are inability to swim and alcohol induced poor supervision of children - particularly on holidays. “We must remember that children can drown in as little as two inches of water and they drown in silence,” warned Jim Higgins MEP this week.

The Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament is to seek an explanation from Galway County Council regarding the financial hardship suffered by a number of families following the flooding crisis of late 2009.

If the city’s roundabouts are to go, then zebra crossings would be a more effective and less costly way to protect pedestrians and get traffic moving, not signalised junctions.

As two Claregalway families bring a petition to the European Parliament over the lack of flood prevention in the area and compensation to help them with their financial burden following the flooding crisis of 2009, the Irish Insurance Federation has called on local authorities to stop the practise of granting planning permission on flood plain areas.

Jim Higgins MEP, a member of the European Parliament's Transport Committee, has expressed disappointment at Ryanair's decision to impose an additional €2 levy on customers, which the airline has said is a means of recouping revenue lost due to travel disruption caused by heavy winter snow.

MEP Jim Higgins this week expressed his concern that the presence of African Pond Weed in Lough Corrib is leaving Ireland open to large EU fines, unless the situation is rectified soon.

Air transport is to become safer with the introduction of a new satellite navigation system being launched in Europe this week, according to Jim Higgins MEP.

Jim Higgins MEP this week pleaded with the powers that be in the emergency services to begin emblazoning the 112 emergency number on the side of Garda cars, ambulances, and fire engines. Speaking in Strasbourg where he was discussing the EU 112 Day which took place last Friday, he noted Ireland’s poor showing in the euro barometer results on awareness of the EU’s 112 number.

Jim Higgins MEP for Ireland North West has expressed his concern at the sharp increase in road deaths over the month of January 2011 compared to the same month last year.

Jim Higgins MEP has asked the European Commission to examine a low cost airline policy which is having an adverse affect. “Some low cost carriers restrict each passenger to just one carry-on item or else they face a fine. It is an issue of huge concern for the entire duty free and travel retail industry with obvious consequences for sales at airports,” said Mr Higgins.